NPR: Science Friday
NPR: Science Friday
Science Friday, as heard on NPR, is a weekly discussion of the latest news in science, technology, health, and the environment hosted by Ira Flatow. Ira interviews scientists, authors, and policymakers, and listeners can call in and ask questions as well. Hear it each week on NPR stations nationwide -- or online here!
How are the discovery of oxygen, the founding of the Unitarian Church and ecosystem science linked? Author Steven Johnson ... more
Whodunit? Was it Dr. Jones, in the lab, with the beaker? Eric and Natalie Yoder may have the answer. They are authors of ... more
Both bring wintertime suffering, but how different is the common cold from influenza, scientifically speaking? Ira Flatow ... more
Biologists identified bacteria that shorten the lifespan of disease-carrying mosquitoes. Shorter lives mean less time for ... more
2009 marks 150 years since the publication of Darwin's On The Origin of Species , and the 400th anniversary of Galileo's ... more
The pop-up book Birdscapes catalogues the calls of birds from all over the world, from Yellow-billed Loons on remote Arc... more
Shade-grown coffee is sometimes called "bird friendly coffee," but a new paper in the journal Current Biology suggests t... more
Get out those binoculars and notepads. For the 109th year, birders throughout the Americas are navigating tropical forests... more
The language of our lives is changing faster than you can download an iPhone app. Wired magazine's "Jargon Watch" column... more
Are you vowing to stop smoking or start exercising on Jan. 1, 2009? Nearly half of U.S. adults will make resolutions to ch... more
