Science Friday

Episodes

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

  May 1, 2026

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

  Apr 30, 2026

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

  Apr 29, 2026

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• The long history of birds, from velociraptors to pigeons

  Apr 28, 2026

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

  Apr 27, 2026

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• Maine nearly became the first state to ban data centers

  Apr 25, 2026

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• What urban design tells us about democracy

  Apr 24, 2026

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

  Apr 23, 2026

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• How do you describe nature? Two poets help us

  Apr 22, 2026

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• The lucky breaks that make our Earth home

  Apr 21, 2026

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• How New Jersey tamped down PFAS in drinking water

  Apr 20, 2026

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• How a particle accelerator illuminated 56 human organs

  Apr 17, 2026

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

  Apr 16, 2026

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• When a dolphin whistles, what does it mean?

  Apr 15, 2026

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• Inside the lives of astronauts’ families

  Apr 14, 2026

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

  Apr 13, 2026

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• Why so many studies can’t be replicated

  Apr 11, 2026

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• How a sound designer gave an alien its voice (and 250 words)

  Apr 10, 2026

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• Can GLP-1 drugs treat addiction?

  Apr 9, 2026

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• What a sperm whale’s birth tells us about whale culture

  Apr 8, 2026

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