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Should we bring mountain lions back to the Northeast? artwork

Should we bring mountain lions back to the Northeast?

Science Friday

12:39Jun 15, 2026
Blue Origin explosion hits NASA timeline + Artemis III crew artwork

Blue Origin explosion hits NASA timeline + Artemis III crew

Science Friday

12:19Jun 12, 2026
Why can I handle tequila but not rum? artwork

Why can I handle tequila but not rum?

Science Friday

21:00Jun 11, 2026
AI + turfgrass science in the most high-tech World Cup yet artwork

AI + turfgrass science in the most high-tech World Cup yet

Science Friday

19:56Jun 10, 2026
How extreme athletes like Alex Honnold keep their cool artwork

How extreme athletes like Alex Honnold keep their cool

Science Friday

22:49Jun 9, 2026
Parenting tips from the animal kingdom artwork

Parenting tips from the animal kingdom

Science Friday

21:08Jun 8, 2026
Wait, is my washing machine playing Schubert? artwork

Wait, is my washing machine playing Schubert?

Science Friday

6:04Jun 6, 2026
A virus hunter in Nigeria has thoughts on the Ebola outbreak artwork

A virus hunter in Nigeria has thoughts on the Ebola outbreak

Science Friday

20:12Jun 5, 2026
How did Neanderthals deal with illness and injuries? artwork

How did Neanderthals deal with illness and injuries?

Science Friday

18:03Jun 4, 2026
Looking for life in the clouds of Venus artwork

Looking for life in the clouds of Venus

Science Friday

27:11Jun 3, 2026
Meet the drug developer taking on wildlife diseases artwork

Meet the drug developer taking on wildlife diseases

Science Friday

12:20Jun 2, 2026
Can the shingles vaccine stave off dementia? artwork

Can the shingles vaccine stave off dementia?

Science Friday

17:38Jun 1, 2026
Inside the Nebraska quarantine facility responding to hantavirus artwork

Inside the Nebraska quarantine facility responding to hantavirus

Science Friday

12:13May 29, 2026
Surveying wildlife along Lewis and Clark's route, 220 years later artwork

Surveying wildlife along Lewis and Clark's route, 220 years later

Science Friday

17:00May 28, 2026
Pope Leo's encyclical on AI, and the Vatican science advisors artwork

Pope Leo's encyclical on AI, and the Vatican science advisors

Science Friday

18:31May 27, 2026
Bizarre exoplanet clouds + Counting insects with weather radar artwork

Bizarre exoplanet clouds + Counting insects with weather radar

Science Friday

20:16May 26, 2026
A trailblazing geneticist reflects on her life and work artwork

A trailblazing geneticist reflects on her life and work

Science Friday

47:13May 25, 2026
Is that spooky old house full of ghosts, or just infrasound? artwork

Is that spooky old house full of ghosts, or just infrasound?

Science Friday

17:47May 22, 2026
How do clinical trials work, and who can participate? artwork

How do clinical trials work, and who can participate?

Science Friday

21:44May 21, 2026
Use of herbicide linked to Parkinson's is on the rise in the US artwork

Use of herbicide linked to Parkinson's is on the rise in the US

Science Friday

12:29May 20, 2026
Why does fashion repeat in 20-year cycles? Math has the answer artwork

Why does fashion repeat in 20-year cycles? Math has the answer

Science Friday

15:17May 19, 2026
Earth's ancient hydrogen, and fossilized vomit artwork

Earth's ancient hydrogen, and fossilized vomit

Science Friday

17:55May 18, 2026
How yawning might help clear dirty fluid from the brain artwork

How yawning might help clear dirty fluid from the brain

Science Friday

18:11May 15, 2026
The new frontier of cancer research is in space artwork

The new frontier of cancer research is in space

Science Friday

17:28May 14, 2026
Who's composing music for my washing machine? artwork

Who's composing music for my washing machine?

Science Friday

17:37May 13, 2026
How El Niño shapes the world’s weather trends artwork

How El Niño shapes the world’s weather trends

Science Friday

12:19May 12, 2026
Planning your photo ops for a trip around the moon artwork

Planning your photo ops for a trip around the moon

Science Friday

18:15May 11, 2026
Understanding the gynecological health crisis facing Black women artwork

Understanding the gynecological health crisis facing Black women

Science Friday

17:54May 8, 2026
Data about your body is up for sale. Who's buying it? artwork

Data about your body is up for sale. Who's buying it?

Science Friday

11:53May 7, 2026
Sci-fi thriller combines aliens, robots, and Cherokee culture artwork

Sci-fi thriller combines aliens, robots, and Cherokee culture

Science Friday

17:56May 6, 2026
Beavers could be humans' biggest ally, if we let them artwork

Beavers could be humans' biggest ally, if we let them

Science Friday

20:44May 5, 2026
Searching for dark matter, deep in the Earth artwork

Searching for dark matter, deep in the Earth

Science Friday

14:40May 4, 2026
The decades-long movement to kill FEMA artwork

The decades-long movement to kill FEMA

Science Friday

12:53May 2, 2026
What cats and dogs hear + A 'smell map' of the nose artwork

What cats and dogs hear + A 'smell map' of the nose

Science Friday

17:50May 1, 2026
How do you study microplastics in a plastic-filled lab? artwork

How do you study microplastics in a plastic-filled lab?

Science Friday

10:38Apr 30, 2026
What is ibogaine, and why is it in the news? artwork

What is ibogaine, and why is it in the news?

Science Friday

19:02Apr 29, 2026
The long history of birds, from velociraptors to pigeons artwork

The long history of birds, from velociraptors to pigeons

Science Friday

21:55Apr 28, 2026
Your DNA is constantly mutating, and that’s a good thing artwork

Your DNA is constantly mutating, and that’s a good thing

Science Friday

17:20Apr 27, 2026
Maine nearly became the first state to ban data centers artwork

Maine nearly became the first state to ban data centers

Science Friday

12:27Apr 25, 2026
What urban design tells us about democracy artwork

What urban design tells us about democracy

Science Friday

17:44Apr 24, 2026
Listening for the cosmic ‘dark ages,’ from the lunar far side artwork

Listening for the cosmic ‘dark ages,’ from the lunar far side

Science Friday

12:33Apr 23, 2026
How do you describe nature? Two poets help us artwork

How do you describe nature? Two poets help us

Science Friday

23:33Apr 22, 2026
The lucky breaks that make our Earth home artwork

The lucky breaks that make our Earth home

Science Friday

17:30Apr 21, 2026
How New Jersey tamped down PFAS in drinking water artwork

How New Jersey tamped down PFAS in drinking water

Science Friday

12:19Apr 20, 2026
How a particle accelerator illuminated 56 human organs artwork

How a particle accelerator illuminated 56 human organs

Science Friday

17:58Apr 17, 2026
Simone Giertz’s journey from robot comedy to high-end design artwork

Simone Giertz’s journey from robot comedy to high-end design

Science Friday

18:22Apr 16, 2026
When a dolphin whistles, what does it mean? artwork

When a dolphin whistles, what does it mean?

Science Friday

14:15Apr 15, 2026
Inside the lives of astronauts’ families artwork

Inside the lives of astronauts’ families

Science Friday

18:59Apr 14, 2026
Green stuff, brown stuff: Secrets to a great compost pile artwork

Green stuff, brown stuff: Secrets to a great compost pile

Science Friday

17:57Apr 13, 2026
Why so many studies can’t be replicated artwork

Why so many studies can’t be replicated

Science Friday

18:01Apr 11, 2026