Science Friday Audio Podcast
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Description
Science Friday, as heard on PRI, is a weekly discussion of the latest news in science, technology, health, and the environment hosted by Ira Flatow. Ira interviews scientists, authors, and policymakers, and listeners can call in and ask questions as well. Watch the latest science videos from the Science Friday website.
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You Are ‘When’ You Eat | In mice, eating within an 8-12 hour window helped to prevent and even reverse obesity and type 2 diabetes. | 12/4/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Near City Streets, an Insect Cleaning Crew | Ants and other insects could be able to remove thousands of pounds of food waste from street medians and city parks each year. | 12/4/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate Deal or Not, Fight Against Global Warming Has Begun | Last year, for example, new solar plants outpaced coal installations in the U.S., and carbon-trading schemes across state and national borders have already begun. | 12/4/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paola Antonelli: ‘Design Is More Than Cute Chairs’ | For MoMA curator Paola Antonelli, “design” includes computer interfaces, video games, and maker kits. | 12/4/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Killing West Coast Starfish? | Scientists have linked an unprecedented starfish die-off along the West Coast to a virus. | 12/4/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Test Launch Marks New Phase for NASA | NASA is in early stage test flights for Orion, its updated crew capsule, but the spaceflight landscape is changing. | 12/4/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Art Movement Where Art and Science Collide | In the new art movement “art-sci,” artists take inspiration from science, use scientific techniques in their artwork, and inspire new science. | 11/27/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ig Nobel Prizes Salute Science’s Strange and Silly | In a Science Friday holiday tradition, we’re playing highlights from this year’s 24th First Annual Ig Nobel awards ceremony. | 11/27/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Does Your Genome Belong to Your Family, Too? | Should doctors share information about your risky genes with your family, since they, too, might harbor that suspect DNA sequence? | 11/27/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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‘Hot’ for Turkey | Female wild turkeys parse the courtship performances of males to determine their genetic potential. | 11/20/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Meet The Brain Scoop’s Emily Graslie | YouTube science star Emily Graslie takes viewers behind the scenes of natural history museums with “The Brain Scoop.” | 11/20/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ghosts of Early Language May Linger in the Brain | Chinese adoptees living in Canada, who now speak only French, still process Chinese sounds as native speakers do, even if they have no conscious recall of word meaning. | 11/20/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Food Failures: The Science of Sides | Find out how to avoid Turkey Day trip-ups in the latest episode of our “Food Failures” series. | 11/20/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Into the Wormhole: The Science of 'Interstellar' | It’s a sci-fi epic set among black holes, wormholes, and tesseracts. But director Christopher Nolan and physicist Kip Thorne say Interstellar doesn’t break the laws of physics. | 11/20/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Would You Trust a Robot to Schedule Your Life? | Given access to your Google calendar, a personal assistant named Amy will happily schedule all your appointments. The catch? She's a machine—a digital personal assistant. | 11/20/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mining Wikipedia Data to Track Disease | By analyzing access to specific health-related pages on Wikipedia, researchers may be able to identify—or even forecast—potential disease outbreaks. | 11/13/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Horns, Claws, and Teeth: The Animal Weapons Arms Race | Doug Emlen, author of “Animal Weapons,” unpacks the evolutionary arms race that pushes horns, claws, teeth and other animal defenses to the extreme. | 11/13/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The First Touchdown on a Comet | The European Space Agency’s Philae lander is the first probe to touch down on a comet. | 11/13/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Here Kitty, Kitty: The Genetics of Tame Animals | Researchers discuss the possible genetic underpinnings that make certain cats and rats tame. | 11/13/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lacking Funding, Some Scientists Turn to the Crowd | Scientists frustrated by a lack of research dollars are turning to crowdfunding. | 11/13/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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‘New Environmentalism’ Moves Beyond Pollution and Climate Change | Gus Speth, a longtime Washington insider, says it’s time to consider consumerism, economic instability, and a functional democracy as core environmental issues. | 11/13/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Opening Up the Synthetic Biology Toolkit | Synthetic biologist Christopher Voigt and biotechnologist Stephen Streatfield discuss current trends in synthetic biology. | 11/6/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apple Science, From American Beauty to Zestar | Between new crosses and old heritage varieties, there’s a world of apples beyond the Red Delicious. | 11/6/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Piecing Together the Puzzle of Insect Evolution | One hundred researchers studied 144 insect species to fill in the blanks of insects’ evolutionary history. | 11/6/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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U.S. High-Speed Internet Lags Behind on Price, Cost | For less than $40 a month, residents of Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bucharest, and Paris can enjoy lightning-fast Internet download and upload speeds of 1,000 Mbps. | 11/6/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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George Washington Carver: Renaissance Man | Carver was a painter, singer, and piano teacher, taught farmers the virtues of crop rotation, and developed hundreds of recipes for peanuts, sweet potatoes, soybeans and pecans. | 11/6/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spilling Our Guts: Decreased Diversity in the Human Microbiome | How can hospital stays and the evolution from apes to humans change the diversity of our microbiome? | 11/6/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Countering Memory Loss With Cocoa Compounds | Researchers try to counteract age-related memory decline with cocoa flavanols. | 10/30/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Doctors ‘Unwrap’ a 3,000-Year-Old Mummy | Radiologists use CT scans to piece together the life, and death, of Egyptian mummies. | 10/30/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Could This 3-D Printer Print Itself? | This week, HP announced its new 3-D printer, which it claims can print materials strong enough to lift up a car—and do it 10 times faster than anything on the market today. | 10/30/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Creature Double Feature | Witness two tales that will make your skin crawl and your mind reel with fear and curiosity. | 10/30/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Haunted House Turned Scientists’ Lab | Scientists turn Pittsburgh’s ScareHouse into a real-world lab to discover why some brains thrive on fear. | 10/30/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ebola Vaccines Fast-Tracked As Outbreak Slows | Jon Cohen, a staff writer covering the outbreak for Science magazine, says that despite the vaccines’ success in monkeys, their efficacy in humans is far from guaranteed. | 10/30/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Behind the Monster Music: Why Some Tunes Scare Us | Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin and Sound Opinions co-host Jim DeRogatis discuss the neuroscience of spooky songs. | 10/30/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Scientists Sniff Smelly Comet | The Rosetta spacecraft has detected the scent of a comet...and it stinks. | 10/30/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Making a Meal From a Mouthful of Seawater | A manta ray can filter 240 gallons of seawater per minute. | 10/23/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fossil Find Pushes Back Neanderthal-Human Mixing | Researchers say a leg bone discovered in a Siberian river bank belongs to a man who lived some 45,000 years ago. | 10/23/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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You Observed...Everything | The Science Club meets to discuss your observations of the world around you, from spider habitats to lunar eclipses. | 10/23/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nerve Transplant Allows Paralyzed Man to Move Legs Again | The pioneering treatment uses cells from the nasal cavity and strips of nerve from the ankle to repair a spinal injury. | 10/23/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hand Sanitizer May Increase BPA Absorption | Hand sanitizer and similar products could increase the amount of BPA absorbed by the skin. | 10/23/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Meet ‘The Innovators’ Who Made the Digital Revolution | Walter Isaacson’s The Innovators shows how the digital revolution was a team effort. | 10/23/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rooting Out the Plant Microbiome | Scientists are uncovering the importance of the plant microbiome for fighting off pathogens and increasing crop yields. | 10/16/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 'First' Battle of Gas Versus Electric | As plug-in electric vehicles struggle to carve out a slice of today's auto market, it's worth remembering the first such battle—at the turn of the 1900s. | 10/16/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Your ‘Priceless’ Painting a Fake? Better Ask a Scientist | Techniques from physics and chemistry can help scientists and art historians sniff out art forgeries. | 10/16/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Forensic Entomologists Hunt Down Insects to Help Catch Criminals | To help piece together a crime scene, forensic entomologists examine the insects found in the area. | 10/16/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Environmental Detectives Use Genetic Tools to Track Invasives | A recently developed technique called "environmental DNA" allows invasive species trackers to get a time-sensitive fingerprint of which species are living where—including underwater. | 10/16/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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More Than Cornflakes | John Harvey Kellogg and his brother, W.K., are known today for their most famous discovery—corn flakes—but invented many other health foods along the way. | 10/16/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Make Quark Soup | Brookhaven National Laboratory cooks up tiny ephemeral batches of quark-gluon soup that are said to be the most "perfect" fluid ever discovered. | 10/9/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Taking the Temperature of Rising Seas | Researchers are trying to better understand ocean water temperatures, which is an important factor in rising sea levels. | 10/9/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Atul Gawande: On Being Mortal | In his book Being Mortal, surgeon Atul Gawande argues that more medicine may not be better medicine in end-of-life care. | 10/9/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Still one of the best programs on the air
I love this program. Science *is* agnostic and liberal--that's what allows people to start with questions and end with answers (rather than the other way around). It's a shame some people want to politicize facts. If you want something that affirms your beliefs, gather each Sunday with a group of people who believe what you do. If you want to question your beliefs and learn a little something, listen to this program each Friday. Of course, some of us are comfortable doing both. ;-)
Give us back the individual items!
I HATE the new format of an entire hour. I loved that this was one long radio show that divided things up so I could listen to the sections I was interested in. You can easily get your podcasts to play one after the other, but it's far harder to fast forward past a section you aren't interested in. Very, very disappointed. :(
listen and decide
There are some very odd reviews here concerning Flatow's abilities as a host. I really like the show and download them all. I listen at the gym and on long flights. Flatow is more than good; he's one of the best. Everyone I recommend this show to thinks so too. Granted that opinions vary on anything and everyone, but the nature of the criticisms seems a bit absurd to me. A little like some of the critiques of Darwin on Amazon... if you catch my drift. It's getting increasingly difficult to separate an honest reviewer from a clever religious or political fanatic. I don't pretend that I can. Anyway, I don't know Flatow, but I hope he keeps it up.
