Neuroscientists Peer Into The Mind's Eye, Alexander von Humboldt. May 3, 2019, Part 2
It sounds like a sci-fi plot: Hook a real brain up to artificial intelligence, and let the two talk to each other. That’s the design of a new study in the journal Cell, in which artificial intelligenc...
3 Touko 201947min
Business Planning For Climate Change,The Digital Afterlife. May 3, 2019, Part 1
Scientists have built all sorts of models to predict the likelihood of extreme weather events. But it’s not just scientists who are interested in these models. Telecomm giant AT&T teamed up with scien...
3 Touko 201947min
Measles, Poetry Month, Lemur Hibernation. April 26, 2019, Part 2
Back in 1963, before the development of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, there were 4 million cases of measles every year. It took nearly four decades, but by 2000, enough people had bec...
26 Huhti 201946min
Degrees of Change: Sponge Cities and Pocket Prairies. April 26, 2019, Part 1
Climate change is happening—now we need to deal with it. Degrees of Change, a new series of hour-long radio specials from Science Friday, explores the problem of climate change and how we as a planet ...
26 Huhti 201946min
5G, Pig Brains, Privacy For Nature. April 19, 2019, Part 1
Last week, President Trump announced a new initiative to push forward the implementation of 5G, the next generation of wireless connectivity for smartphones and other devices. How is this faster speed...
19 Huhti 201947min
New Human Species, Census, Plankton, Brain Etchings. April 19, 2019, Part 2
Last week, researchers announced they’d found the remains of a new species of ancient human on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It was just a few teeth and bones from toes and hands, but they a...
19 Huhti 201947min
Year In Space Results, Citizen Science Day, Cherry Blossoms. April 12, 2019, Part 2
To find out what was happening to astronauts over longer periods of space flight, NASA put together a 10-team study of twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly. Scott spent a year on International Space S...
12 Huhti 201946min
Event Horizon Telescope, Biosphere 2. April 12, 2019, Part 1
“As I like to say, it’s never a good idea to bet against Einstein,” astrophysicist Shep Doeleman told Science Friday back in 2016, when the Event Horizon Telescope project was just getting underway. A...
12 Huhti 201946min
