Science Friday

Science Friday

Covering the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies, Science Friday is the source for entertaining and educational stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.

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The Leap: The Volcano Whisperer

The Leap: The Volcano Whisperer

As a teenager living in St. Vincent, Richie Robertson saw first-hand what a volcanic eruption did to life on the island. Forty years later, he was the scientist the community turned to when the same v...

19 Maj 202528min

Lesser Prairie Chicken May Lose Endangered Species Status

Lesser Prairie Chicken May Lose Endangered Species Status

The lesser prairie chicken was granted endangered species status in 2023. Now the Department of the Interior is moving to revoke those protections. What can this bird known for its flamboyant courtshi...

16 Maj 202518min

Tracking The Hidden Dangers Of Fighting Fires

Tracking The Hidden Dangers Of Fighting Fires

Firefighting is a career with an inherent cancer risk, but a full understanding of what those risks are has been elusive. An important registry designed to help understand the link between firefighter...

15 Maj 202518min

Identifying New Plants, And The Scientific Secrets Of Superfoods

Identifying New Plants, And The Scientific Secrets Of Superfoods

What does it take to create and maintain one of the largest repositories of botanical information in the world? For starters, it can mean helicopter-ing into remote nooks of the Amazon, hiking through...

14 Maj 202529min

Designing Hyperrealistic Body Parts, From Eyeballs To Placentas

Designing Hyperrealistic Body Parts, From Eyeballs To Placentas

Medical sculptor Damon Coyle walks around with a Mary Poppins bag of body parts. Fake ones, that is. At the University of Missouri, his lab creates hyperrealistic body parts designed to help medical p...

13 Maj 202517min

The Leap: I Was Considered A Nobody

The Leap: I Was Considered A Nobody

Biochemist Kati Karikó spent decades experimenting with mRNA, convinced that she could solve the problems that had kept it from being used as a therapeutic. Her tireless, methodical work was dismissed...

12 Maj 202527min

Cuts To NASA And A Fast-Track For Deep Sea Mining

Cuts To NASA And A Fast-Track For Deep Sea Mining

Proposed budget cuts for NASA would jeopardize space research. And an executive order could change the political tides for deep sea mining.On May 2, the Trump Administration proposed a 24% budget cut ...

9 Maj 202525min

How Do Bacteria Talk To Each Other?

How Do Bacteria Talk To Each Other?

Bacteria have been around for billions of years. Could they have come up with complex behaviors that we just don’t understand yet? Could they have their own language? Their own culture? Their own comp...

8 Maj 202523min

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