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Podcast Profile: Science Friday

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150 episodes
2024 to 2025
Median: 18 minutes
Collection: Science

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This podcast, "Science Friday," offers a diverse and engaging exploration of scientific and technological topics, ranging from cosmic wonders to minute details of biological life. The episodes demonstrate a commitment to uncovering and explaining complex scientific concepts and their implications for everyday life. Themes frequently explored include advancements in space exploration, such as new discoveries with telescopes and the endeavors of various countries' space programs. Another recurring topic is the ethical and practical considerations of cutting-edge technologies, such as AI chatbots providing social support and gene-editing treatments for genetic diseases.

The podcast often delves into the implications of scientific research on society, including how scientific funding cuts impact research and the challenges of science communication. Listeners will also encounter explorations of innovative technologies, such as brain-computer interfaces and functional designs inspired by biological models. Environmental themes are evident in discussions on climate technologies and biodiversity conservation efforts, highlighting current environmental challenges and innovative solutions.

In addition to these broad themes, the podcast covers niche yet fascinating topics, such as the behavioral genetics of domestic animals, the communication methods of microorganisms, and the lives of pioneering scientists who challenge conventional wisdom. Episodes also address how historical and theoretical frameworks, such as ancient biological paths or the limits of scientific knowledge, shape current scientific understanding. The podcast is suitable for audiences interested in learning about the intersections of science, technology, health, and society, providing insights into both cutting-edge research and longstanding scientific mysteries.

Episodes:

The Leap: Everything Else Is Boring 2025-Jul-07 25 minutes

The Seafaring Life Of ‘Modern-Day Captain Nemo,’ Robert Ballard 2025-Jul-04 30 minutes

Understanding Sunscreen Ingredients And Which Ones You Need 2025-Jul-03 18 minutes

In ‘Jurassic World Rebirth,’ Paleontology Is Still The Star 2025-Jul-02 13 minutes

What Does It Mean To Have A Chatbot Companion? 2025-Jul-01 19 minutes

The Leap: Mars? It Was A Miracle We Got To Florida 2025-Jun-30 23 minutes

After Her Grants Got Cut, This Researcher Is Suing The NIH 2025-Jun-27 13 minutes

New Telescope Captures The Cosmos In Groundbreaking Detail 2025-Jun-26 12 minutes

How Scientists Made The First Gene-Editing Treatment For A Baby 2025-Jun-25 18 minutes

Ancient Bone Proteins May Offer Insight On Megafauna Extinction 2025-Jun-24 19 minutes

The Leap: You Do Realize… That’s Impossible 2025-Jun-23 23 minutes

What We’re Learning From The James Webb Space Telescope 2025-Jun-20 17 minutes

How ‘Super Agers’ Stay Sharp And Active Longer Than Their Peers 2025-Jun-19 30 minutes

A Dino’s Last Dinner And Eavesdropping Birds 2025-Jun-18 20 minutes

What Are The Best Practices For Prostate Cancer Screening? 2025-Jun-17 18 minutes

The Leap: Garbage In, Garbage Out 2025-Jun-16 29 minutes

RFK Jr. Reshuffles CDC Vaccine Panel With Vaccine Skeptics 2025-Jun-13 25 minutes

What’s Next For China’s Space Program? 2025-Jun-12 19 minutes

The Ruin And Redemption Of The American Prairie 2025-Jun-11 18 minutes

Bedbugs Have Been Bugging Us Since Before Beds 2025-Jun-10 18 minutes

The Leap: A Scientist’s Quest To See Every Organism On Earth 2025-Jun-09 25 minutes

Are We Prepared To Fight ‘The New Polio’? 2025-Jun-06 25 minutes

How Science Communication Can Step Up Amid Federal Cuts 2025-Jun-05 18 minutes

How Cannibalistic Tadpoles Could Curb Invasive Cane Toads 2025-Jun-04 18 minutes

Turning The Binoculars On Birders 2025-Jun-03 18 minutes

The Leap: Be Bold Or Just Don't Do It 2025-Jun-02 26 minutes

What Huge Cuts To NSF Funding Mean For Science 2025-May-30 19 minutes

What Happens When Air Traffic Control Systems Go Dark? 2025-May-29 16 minutes

Could The NIH Plan For A ‘Universal Vaccine’ Really Work? 2025-May-28 27 minutes

The Leap: This Is Going To Kill Your Career 2025-May-27 23 minutes

The Science Of That Big Stunt From The New ‘Mission: Impossible’ 2025-May-23 19 minutes

Meet A Pioneer Of Modern Weather Prediction 2025-May-22 18 minutes

Are Physical Buttons And Knobs Making A Comeback? 2025-May-21 20 minutes

Scientists Identify Genes For Tomato And Eggplant Size 2025-May-20 18 minutes

The Leap: The Volcano Whisperer 2025-May-19 28 minutes

Lesser Prairie Chicken May Lose Endangered Species Status 2025-May-16 18 minutes

Tracking The Hidden Dangers Of Fighting Fires 2025-May-15 18 minutes

Identifying New Plants, And The Scientific Secrets Of Superfoods 2025-May-14 29 minutes

Designing Hyperrealistic Body Parts, From Eyeballs To Placentas 2025-May-13 17 minutes

The Leap: I Was Considered A Nobody 2025-May-12 27 minutes

Cuts To NASA And A Fast-Track For Deep Sea Mining 2025-May-09 25 minutes

How Do Bacteria Talk To Each Other? 2025-May-08 23 minutes

Functional Fashion From An Artist And A Caterpillar 2025-May-07 18 minutes

Ancient Iguanas Floated 5,000 Miles Across The Pacific | A Pregnant Ichthyosaur Fossil 2025-May-06 18 minutes

Are There Things That We Know We Can’t Know? 2025-May-05 18 minutes

Two Steps Forward For Meat Alternatives 2025-May-02 16 minutes

How Death Metal Singers Make Their Extreme Vocalizations | Regional Allergies 2025-May-01 22 minutes

A New Book On The Horrifying, Creative World Of Insect Zombies 2025-Apr-30 18 minutes

Untangling The Mind-Body Connection In Chronic Pain 2025-Apr-29 18 minutes

A Precisely Pointed Laser Allows People To See New Color ‘Olo’ 2025-Apr-28 18 minutes

$8B Of Climate Tech Projects Canceled | In Louisiana, A Successful, Growing Wetland 2025-Apr-25 20 minutes

Investigating Cat Behavior Through Genetics 2025-Apr-24 18 minutes

Advances In Brain-Computer Interfaces For People With Paralysis 2025-Apr-23 18 minutes

A Blind Inventor’s Life Of Advocacy And Innovation 2025-Apr-22 18 minutes

The Lack Of Science In Road Design Is Deadly 2025-Apr-21 18 minutes

Possible Signature Of Life Detected On Exoplanet—Maybe | A Colossal Squid Video 2025-Apr-18 24 minutes

How ‘Science Interpreters’ Make Hidden Science Visible 2025-Apr-17 18 minutes

The Navajo Researcher Reviving A Desert Peach | A New Dino With Blade-Like Horns 2025-Apr-16 31 minutes

How Interjections Regulate Conversation | Saccharin For Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria 2025-Apr-15 18 minutes

Trump’s Nominee For NASA Administrator Meets Congress 2025-Apr-14 15 minutes

How Real Doctors Brought ‘The Pitt’ To Life 2025-Apr-11 20 minutes

What Will Replace The International Space Station? 2025-Apr-10 17 minutes

What Artificial General Intelligence Could Mean For Our Future 2025-Apr-09 29 minutes

Climate Change Has Made Allergy Season Worse. How Do We Cope? 2025-Apr-08 15 minutes

Microdosing Peanut Butter Could Alleviate Some Peanut Allergies 2025-Apr-07 17 minutes

The Department Of Health And Human Services Cuts 10,000 Jobs 2025-Apr-04 12 minutes

Forecasting Cuts Spark Worries About Hurricane Season | Soothing Babies With Music 2025-Apr-03 17 minutes

Massive Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica, Revealing Wonders Below 2025-Apr-02 17 minutes

TikTok Is Shaping How We Think About ADHD 2025-Apr-01 18 minutes

Engineering Lessons One Year After The Baltimore Bridge Collapse 2025-Mar-31 18 minutes

23andMe Bankruptcy | A Coating That Can Slow A Golf Ball’s Roll 2025-Mar-28 24 minutes

AI Word Choice | When Dwarf Lemurs Hibernate, Their Chromosomes Do Something Odd 2025-Mar-27 24 minutes

Developing Faster, Simpler Tools To Treat Tuberculosis 2025-Mar-26 18 minutes

Author John Green On The Many Ways Tuberculosis Shaped Human Life 2025-Mar-25 19 minutes

DESI Data Strengthens Evidence Of Change In Dark Energy 2025-Mar-24 18 minutes

NASA Astronauts Return To Earth After Extended Stay On The ISS | Bottle "Pop" Physics 2025-Mar-21 19 minutes

The Evolving Science Of How Childhood Trauma Shapes Adults | Butterfly Memories 2025-Mar-20 18 minutes

How NIH Cuts Could Affect U.S. Biomedical Research 2025-Mar-19 18 minutes

Fungi Create Complex Supply Chains | A Rookie Robot Umpire Takes The Field 2025-Mar-18 18 minutes

10% Of NOAA Staff Laid Off | Frozen Funds Leave Farmers In Limbo 2025-Mar-17 25 minutes

Pi, Anyone? A Celebration Of Math And What’s New 2025-Mar-14 18 minutes

How Plants Powered Prehistoric Giants Millions Of Years Ago 2025-Mar-13 18 minutes

How Narwhals Use Their Tusks To Hunt And Play | This Week's ‘Blood Moon’ Lunar Eclipse 2025-Mar-12 16 minutes

Where Have All The Butterflies Gone? 2025-Mar-11 17 minutes

What Does Dismantling USAID Mean For Global Health? 2025-Mar-10 18 minutes

Protesters ‘Stand Up For Science’ At Rallies Nationwide | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander 2025-Mar-07 27 minutes

The Effort To Save Thousands Of Donor Kidneys | Ocean Liner Will Become An Artificial Reef 2025-Mar-06 18 minutes

Where Does Plastic And Other Trash Go After We Throw It Away? 2025-Mar-05 18 minutes

An Animal’s Size And Its Cancer Risk | Bastetodon, A 30 Million-Year-Old Apex Predator 2025-Mar-04 17 minutes

How Trump’s DEI Ban Will Affect Medical Research 2025-Mar-03 18 minutes

Conflicting Directives Sow Confusion For NIH Workers | The Mycobiome 2025-Feb-28 25 minutes

The Best Tail For Balance | Bindi Irwin Wants Kids To Become ‘Wildlife Warriors’ 2025-Feb-27 22 minutes

A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise 2025-Feb-26 17 minutes

Why Are Flu And Other Viral Infection Rates So High This Year? 2025-Feb-25 18 minutes

Making Sense Of Federal Cuts To Science—And What Comes Next 2025-Feb-24 17 minutes

Tomb Of Egyptian King Unearthed | Why The Internet Was Captivated By A Hideous Fish 2025-Feb-21 20 minutes

What Happens To Your Body When You’re Grieving 2025-Feb-20 18 minutes

Can Men and Women (Baboons) Really Just Be Friends? | The Best Bear Deterrent May Be Drones 2025-Feb-19 19 minutes

Adventures In Science At The Icy ‘Ends Of The Earth’ 2025-Feb-18 18 minutes

FDA Approves A New, Non-Opioid Painkiller | Deep, Multi-Layer Oceans On Uranus And Neptune? 2025-Feb-17 24 minutes

Most Powerful Neutrino Ever Is Detected In the Mediterranean | Nerdy Valentines 2025-Feb-14 17 minutes

‘Common Side Effects’ And An All-Healing Mushroom | The Unique Smell Of Snow 2025-Feb-13 18 minutes

Investigating Fraud At The Heart Of Alzheimer’s Research 2025-Feb-12 18 minutes

Managing Wildfires Using A Centuries-Old Indigenous Practice 2025-Feb-11 17 minutes

Can Vaping Help You Quit Cigarettes? What Are The Risks? 2025-Feb-10 18 minutes

How Lucy Runs On A Virtual Treadmill | Comparing DeepSeek’s AI To Other Models 2025-Feb-07 26 minutes

Scientists Create Glowing ‘RNA Lanterns’ With Bioluminescence 2025-Feb-06 18 minutes

What’s Next For Quantum Computing In 2025? 2025-Feb-05 18 minutes

Building Blocks Of Life Found On Asteroid Bennu 2025-Feb-04 18 minutes

The Toxic Aftermath Of An Urban Fire 2025-Feb-03 18 minutes

Strain Of Bird Flu Discovered In California | Understanding Bipolar Disorder Through The Genome 2025-Jan-31 24 minutes

The Science Of Thriving In Winter—By Embracing It 2025-Jan-30 18 minutes

The Factors That Make Bird Sounds So Diverse Across The World 2025-Jan-29 16 minutes

Can Paxlovid Relieve Long COVID Symptoms? For Some, Yes 2025-Jan-28 18 minutes

AI Is Coming Up With Brand New Molecules, Fueling Drug Discovery 2025-Jan-27 19 minutes

Trump Administration Cancels Meetings, Freezes Hiring At NIH | What Is A Meme Coin? 2025-Jan-24 23 minutes

Why Editors At Scientific Journals Are Resigning En Masse 2025-Jan-23 18 minutes

This January, See A ‘Planet Parade’ In The Night Sky 2025-Jan-22 17 minutes

‘Orbital’ Imagines The Inner Lives Of Astronauts On The ISS 2025-Jan-21 21 minutes

Fire Risk To Homes Where Cities And Wildlands Meet 2025-Jan-20 18 minutes

2 Private Lunar Landers | Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine 2025-Jan-17 24 minutes

‘Artificial General Intelligence’ Is Apparently Coming. What Is It? 2025-Jan-16 17 minutes

NASA Considers Cheaper Ways To Retrieve Mars Samples | How Does A Hula Hoop Stay Up? 2025-Jan-15 17 minutes

Surgeon General Highlights Link Between Alcohol And Cancer 2025-Jan-14 18 minutes

First U.S. Bird Flu Death Raises Concerns About Preparedness 2025-Jan-13 19 minutes

Meet Flora Lichtman | Los Angeles Wildfires Stoked By Santa Ana Winds 2025-Jan-10 23 minutes

What Lichen Tell Us About Ecology, Air Quality, And More 2025-Jan-09 30 minutes

Biologists Call For A Halt To ‘Mirror Life’ Research 2025-Jan-08 18 minutes

The Breakthrough Technologies To Watch In 2025 2025-Jan-07 18 minutes

What Scientists Have Learned From 125 Years Of Bird Counts 2025-Jan-06 18 minutes

Scientists Predict Loss Of Deep Snow In Most Of U.S. 2025-Jan-03 12 minutes

Jane Goodall On Life Among Chimpanzees 2024-Dec-31 30 minutes

The Science That Captivated SciFri’s Reporters In 2024 2024-Dec-30 18 minutes

Health, Astronomy, And Climate Experts On 2024’s Coolest Science 2024-Dec-27 48 minutes

Meet Leaders Of 3 Local Conservation Projects | Preserving ‘Space Junk’ Left On Mars 2024-Dec-26 18 minutes

The Top Dino Discoveries Of 2024 | Can Spiking Eggnog Kill Bacteria From Raw Eggs? 2024-Dec-25 18 minutes

Parker Solar Probe Will Make Closest-Ever Approach To Sun 2024-Dec-24 18 minutes

If ‘Interstellar’ Were Made Today, What Would Be Different? 2024-Dec-23 18 minutes

Farewell, Murder Hornet | What FAA Regulations Tell Us About Mysterious Drone Sightings 2024-Dec-20 26 minutes

How Blind Women In India Detect Early Breast Cancer | Web-Slinging Silk Becomes Real 2024-Dec-19 18 minutes

8.5 Hours Of Daily Sitting Linked To Higher BMI And Cholesterol 2024-Dec-18 18 minutes

The Accidental Discovery That Gave Us ‘Forever Chemicals’ | A Pregnancy Play Inspired By Mushroom Research 2024-Dec-17 19 minutes

How Empire and Environmental Destruction Go Hand-In-Hand 2024-Dec-16 18 minutes

The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected | Are Food Recalls Actually On The Rise? 2024-Dec-13 25 minutes

You Share Your Gut Microbiome With Your Friends 2024-Dec-12 16 minutes

Marie Curie And The Women Scientists Who Became Her Legacy 2024-Dec-11 18 minutes

Protecting Against Poison Exposure This Holiday Season 2024-Dec-10 18 minutes

2024’s Best Science Books For Kids 2024-Dec-09 18 minutes

Supreme Court Case On Regulation Of Vapes | Predicting Lithium-Ion Battery Explosions 2024-Dec-06 25 minutes

A Theatrical Tribute To Unexpected Science 2024-Dec-05 49 minutes