After CDC Director Is Ousted, More Senior Officials Resign
On August 27, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the White House fired CDC director Susan Monarez after only a month on the job. Right after she was ousted, other senior leaders resigned from ...
5 Sep 202513min
Meet 3I/Atlas, An Object From Another Solar System
Earlier this summer, astronomers discovered something strange whizzing past Jupiter: an interstellar object. Scientists named it 3I/ATLAS. It’s only the third interstellar object ever observed, and it...
4 Sep 202518min
How Common Household Products Pollute Our Indoor Air
You have probably given some thought to outdoor air pollution, whether it’s wildfire smoke or smog from traffic. You may even check AQI measurements on your phone. But what about the air inside your h...
3 Sep 202513min
The Shape-Shifting Science Of Sand Dunes
In some places, sand dunes protect shorelines from the onslaught of ocean waves. In other places, the dunes themselves are on the move, and threaten human structures.Host Flora Lichtman talks with mec...
2 Sep 202517min
Food Science Experts On Perfecting At-Home Ice Cream
Summer may be winding down, but we’re not quite ready to let go of beach days, backyard cookouts, or ice cream cones. We love ice cream here at SciFri, so we’re pulling a few of our favorite ice cream...
1 Sep 202518min
An ER Doctor Reflects On Hurricane Katrina, 20 Years Later
Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, and the levees designed to protect New Orleans failed. Huge swaths of the city flooded, and 1,600 people were trapped inside Charity Hos...
29 Aug 202525min
An Archaeologist And A Tattoo Artist Decipher Ancient Ink
Researchers recently used near-infrared photography to get a detailed look at ancient artwork showing scenes of wild animals tangled in a fight. But these weren’t paintings on a cave wall. They were t...
28 Aug 202518min
What Lies Beneath The Outer Layers Of A Star?
You might think of a star as a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace where hydrogen is turned into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees. But researchers recently reported that...
27 Aug 202512min
