Hr2: Teachers In The Lab, NeuroTribes, Modern Dating
Teachers tell us about their science-filled summer vacations, science writer Steve Silberman on the history of autism, and how text messages, profile pictures, and changing expectations factor into modern dating.
48m Sep 03, 2015
48m
Hr1: News Roundup, Macroscope on Colorblindness, Oliver Sacks Tribute
A look at this week in science, gene thereapy to treat colorblindness in monkeys, and a tribute to neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks.
48m Sep 03, 2015
48m
Hr2: Rooftop Solar, Replicating Research, Bird Migration, Black Holes
A look at whether rooftop solar and utilities can get along, a study that attempted to replicate 100 other psychology studies, a look at the fall bird migration season, and a new view of black holes and information from Stephen Hawking.
47m Aug 27, 2015
47m
Hr1: News Roundup,SciFri Book Club, LiFi
A roundup of the top science stories this week, the SciFri Book Club discusses The Soul of a New Machine, and how LEDs might help with the broadband capacity crunch.
47m Aug 27, 2015
47m
Hr2: Measuring Earthquakes, Art and Technology, A Play About Medical Ethics
Seismologist Lucy Jones on measuring earthquakes, LACMAs Art & Technology program, and the play Informed Consent explores the ethics of genetic research.
48m Aug 20, 2015
48m
Hr1: News Roundup, Workplace Traching Tech, Garden Whiz
A roundup of the top science stories this week, the data employers are gathering on their employees, and urine as garden fertilizer.
48m Aug 20, 2015
48m
Hr2: Gold King Mine Spill, Voices and Voting, App Chat on Assistive Technology
The EPA accidentally triggered a blowout at the Gold King mine in Colorado, releasing three million gallons of wastewater into the Animas River. Then, a look at how voice preferences affect voting, and a look at assistive technology apps.
47m Aug 13, 2015
47m
Hr1: News Roundup, Fires and Forests, Social Octopus, Panda Pregnancy
A roundup of the top science stories this week, what researchers are learning from monitoring how forest vegetation shifts after catastrophic fires, surprising mating, dwelling, and feeding behaviors in one rare species of octopus, and panda pregnancy.
46m Aug 13, 2015
46m
Hr2: Rats on the Job, AC Options, Babies and Humor, Macroscope
Rats at work, other options for more sustainable air conditioning, whether children can distinguish between joking and pretending, and a video about the tenacious oblong rocksnail.
49m Aug 06, 2015
49m
Hr1: News Roundup, Climate Plan, Arctic Science, Book Club
A roundup of the top science stories this week, a look at President Obamas Clean Power Plan, and a check-in on ongoing research around the Arctic, and the SciFri Book Club reads Tracy Kidders Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the creation of a new computer
50m Aug 06, 2015
50m
Hr2: Visualizing Climate Change, Walking While Texting, Wearable Technology, Enviro Impacts of Illegal Marijuana Farming
Augmented reality binoculars to help visualize sea level rise, how texters change their gait, the evolution of wearable technology, and how illegal pot farms are repeating old environmental sins.
47m Jul 30, 2015
47m
Hr1: News Roundup, Deconstructing School Discipline, Gut Feelings, So Flashy
A roundup of the top science stories this week, rethinking school discipline, the link between the gut and the brain in mice, and the chemistry and benefit of firefly flashes.
49m Jul 30, 2015
49m
Hr2: Native American Origins, Space News, Self-Described Experts, Pentaquarks
Tracing the DNA of the earliest Americans, new data from the Kepler and New Horizons missions, why self-described experts are more likely to claim knowledge of phony information, and the discovery of a pentaquark at CERN.
47m Jul 23, 2015
47m
Hr1: News Roundup, Drones, Dolphin Diabetes, Bacterial Hunger Games
A roundup of the top science stories this week, tips on buying and flying drones, a dolphin view of disease, bacterial warfare.
47m Jul 23, 2015
47m
Hr2: Video Games As Teaching Tools, Aurora, Ice Cream Structure, Screams
Are the digital building blocks of Minecraft the teaching tools of the future? Plus, how sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson puts the dream of interstellar colonization under the microscope, a food scientist explores the microstructure of ice cream, and t
53m Jul 16, 2015
53m
Hr1: News Roundup, New Horizons, Redefining the Kilogram
A roundup of the top science stories this week, a new view of Pluto, and why scientists are looking to redefine the standard of what a kilogram really means.
49m Jul 16, 2015
49m
Hr2: Prions and Memory, Science Road Trip, Supermassive Black Holes
Eric Kandel discusses the role of prions in maintaining long-term memories, Geek Atlas author John Graham-Cumming help us plot the ultimate geek road trip, and a universe containing millions of hidden supermassive black holes.
48m Jul 09, 2015
48m
Hr1: News Roundup, New Horizons, Bumblebees, Lollipops
A roundup of the top science stories this week, Pluto prepares for its closeup, how climate change is affecting bumblebee habitats, and fluid dynamics tackles a question of licking lollipops.
49m Jul 09, 2015
49m
Hr2: Marijuana and Health / Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge / Why Do Cyclists Break the Rules?
Ongoing research on the effects and potential applications of marijuana for adolescents in the United States. Then, a look at The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. Plus, biking and traffic laws.
48m Jul 02, 2015
48m
Hr1:These Brains Changed Neuroscience / Does Math Matter?
In The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, science writer Sam Kean explains how the field of neuroscience emerged from stories of brains gone awry. Then, is there a better way to teach and learn math?
49m Jul 02, 2015
49m
Hr2: DARPA Biology, Inside Out, Food Failures: Ice Cream
DARPA explores synthetic biology, meet Inside Out's science advisor, and science hacks for at-home ice cream-making.
48m Jun 25, 2015
48m
Hr1: News Roundup, Neanderthal Jawbone, Elon Musk, Cephalopod Week Wrap-Up
A roundup of the top science stories this week, a 40,000-year-old jawbone reveals neanderthal ancestry, Elon Musk biography, and wrap-up of our Cephalopod Week celebration.
10m Jun 25, 2015
10m
Engineering Evaporation, Cooking Oil Science, Summer Science Reading
Engines powered by evaporation, the healthiness of different cooking oils, and some picks for summer science reading.
48m Jun 18, 2015
48m
Hr1: News Roundup,Science Goes To The Movies, Ancient Mars Climate, Cephalopods
A roundup of the top science stories this week, paleontologists discuss the summer dino blockbuster, ancient climate on Mars, and a celebration of things tentacled.
48m Jun 18, 2015
48m
Hr 2: Repurposing Drugs, Skeptical Climate Change Conference, DARPA Robotic Challenge, Smelly Ants
Hr 2: Repurposing Drugs, Skeptical Climate Change Conference, DARPA Robotic Challenge, Smelly Ants
48m Jun 11, 2015
48m
Hr 1: News Roundup, Ian Tattersall, Predictive Apps, Silk
Hr 1: News Roundup, Ian Tattersall, Predictive Apps, Silk
49m Jun 11, 2015
49m
Hr2: Ocean Habitats, Lymphatic Vessels, BBQ Science, Asexual Sawfish
How increasing ocean temps affect marine habitats, a possible link between the brain and immune system, beer can chicken myths and summer BBQ science, and how female smalltooth sawfish can reproduce without a mate.
48m Jun 04, 2015
48m
Hr1: News Roundup, Flame Challenge, Science Club
A roundup of the top science stories this week, Alan Alda asks communicators to explain sleep, and a look back at our month-long solar celebration.
53m Jun 04, 2015
53m
Hr2: Beefy Tomatoes, The Limits of AI, Yeast and Human Genetic Heritage
The genetics behind the oversized beefsteak tomato, a look at a robot that can evaluate an injury and self-adapt, and swapping yeast genes for human ones.
50m May 28, 2015
50m
Hr1: News Roundup, A Possible New Hominin, Twin Astronauts
A roundup of the top science stories this week, a fossil jaw of a possible new hominin species, and a conversation with two twin astronauts, one on board the ISS, one on Earth.
49m May 28, 2015
49m
Hr2: Plankton Goes Viral, Neal Stephenson and Seveneves, Car Apps
The results of a multi-year ocean expedition, science fiction author Neal Stephenson destroys the moon, and a talk about driving apps and gadgets.
47m May 21, 2015
47m
Hr1: News Roundup, The Small But Mighty Seed, Of Sun and Skin
A roundup of the top science stories this week, the dizzying diversity of seeds, and sun-induced mutations in normal skin cells.
49m May 21, 2015
49m
Hr2: NASA Earth Science Budget, Emoji, Microbiome ID, Dinosaur Snouts
Proposed cuts to earth science funding at NASA, a look at what the rise of emoji says about online communication, new research into the microbiome, and how scientists traced the evolution of dinosaurs to birds through the beak of a chicken.
51m May 14, 2015
51m
Hr1: News Roundup, How To Clone A Mammoth, Space Weather
A roundup of the top science stories this week, the whys and how-tos of woolly mammoth de-extinction, and how and why scientists keep a close eye on the activity of our nearest star.
51m May 14, 2015
51m
Live From Huntsville, Alabama
Weightlessness in space, using muons to learn about asteroids, backwards biking, and discovering Egyptian settlements...from space, and more.
1hr 17m May 14, 2015
1hr 17m
Explain The Sun: Barbara A. Ambrose
Barbara A. Ambrose, Ph.D.Cullman Associate Curator, Plant Genomics, NYBG
1m May 07, 2015
1m
Hr2: MicroRNAs, Baking Pi, Musical Evolution, Animal Moms
MicroRNAs and cancer therapeutics, digestible lessons about number theory, combining elvolutionary theory big data and music, and a look at some of the matriarchs of the animal kingdom.
50m May 07, 2015
50m
Hr1: News Roundup, Pig Tales, Science Club, Macroscope
A roundup of the top science stories this week, a look inside hog farming, a challenge to explain the sun, and a video about the disco clam.
50m May 07, 2015
50m
Secretary Moniz on the Sun and Energy
Energy Department Secretary Ernest Moniz explains the sun's role in producing carbon free electricity.
1m May 05, 2015
1m
What does the sun do? Alan Friedman
1m May 01, 2015
1m
Hr2: The Tesla Battery, Debating Gene Editing, Celebrity Scientists, and Oliver Sacks
A look at a new battery from Elon Musk, the debate around gene editing, scientists who have become popular icons, and the other side of Oliver Sacks.
47m Apr 30, 2015
47m
Hr1: News Roundup, Psychiatry's Early Days, Earthquake Science
The week in science, a new book about psychiatry's history, and seismic risk and safety in Nepal
47m Apr 30, 2015
47m
Hr2: News Roundup, Lovelace and Babbage, NASA Administrator Bolden, Teaching Evolution
A look at the week in science, a graphic novel featuring pioneers of computing, a conversation with NASA administrator Charles Bolden, and a video about teaching evolution in the classroom.
48m Apr 23, 2015
48m
Hr1: ISS Science, Solar Sails, Smarter Every Day
A look inside what may be the most unusual lab available to science, dreaming up the future of space travel, and a conversation with YouTube science star Destin Sandlin.
50m Apr 23, 2015
50m
Hr2: Zero-G Coffee Cup, Geek Physics, Science Documentaries
A coffee cup suitable for space travel, how Rhett Allain uses physics to answer pop culture and everyday science questions, and a look at science on screen, from old to new.
50m Apr 16, 2015
50m
Hr1: News Roundup, Waning Western Water, Remote Microbiome, Less Dark Dark Matter
Science blogger Rachel Feltman gives us her top stories this week, a look at snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, studying the microbes that live on and in residents of a remote Amazonian village, and a new look for dark matter.
50m Apr 16, 2015
50m
Hr2: Arctic Permafrost, The Future of Artificial Intelligence, Publication Pollution
Microbes living in Arctic permafrost could create greenhouse gases, asking questions about the future of artificial intelligence, and medical ethicist Art Caplan says science and medical journals are plagued by fraud.
46m Apr 09, 2015
46m
Hr1: News Roundup, Undersea Cables, Apple Watch, The Macroscope
Science blogger Rachel Feltman gives us her top stories this week, a tour of the undersea cable network that connects the global internet, Re/Codes Lauren Goode give us her take on Apples new wearable, SciFri producer Luke Groskin introduces the first epis
48m Apr 09, 2015
48m
Hr2: Mercury, BAHFest Science Satire, Cancer Vaccines
How dust from passing comets could have darkened the surface of Mercury, a festival that challenges science fans to construct real arguments for completely bogus hypotheses, and looking to the genome of a patients tumor to build a cancer vaccine.
49m Apr 02, 2015
49m
Hr1: News Roundup, Iran Nuclear Deal, Egg Science, Long-flying Bird
Eric Holthaus breaks down the new U.S. climate pledge, Energy Secretary Moniz talks Iran, Jeff Potter describes egg cookery, and a look at the 1700 mile flight of the blackpoll warbler.
49m Apr 02, 2015
49m