Science Friday

WNYC

Covering the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies, Science Friday is the source for entertaining and educational stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.

Episodes

The SciFri Book Club reads ‘The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year’

Meet the tiny, see-through fish that can regenerate its brain

Why is everyone so obsessed with protein?

What a trapped antimatter particle could tell us about reality

Why are armadillos moving up north?

When, and where, did bats first take to the sky?

People are microdosing GLP-1s for weight loss. Is it safe?

Terence Tao on how AI math solutions miss the point

What was life like for Tyranossaurus rex?

Isabella Rossellini on how acting connects to animal cognition

Why are we changing the way we keep time?

Kazuo Ishiguro on emotional truth in sci-fi and in our AI reality

Is that garbage can bear resistant? These bears will find out

Jennifer Doudna on what it takes to be a good scientist

Getting the billion-dollar PRIMA space telescope off the ground

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on making climate action cool

Could a whale swallow a human, “Whalefall” style?

Why do politicians talk like that?

Sargassum superblooms are choking coastlines around the Atlantic

Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and the women who made the internet