Science Friday

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

Oct 29, 2026

Terence Tao on how AI math solutions miss the point

Oct 28, 2026

What was life like for Tyranossaurus rex?

Oct 27, 2026

Isabella Rossellini on how acting connects to animal cognition

Oct 26, 2026

Why are we changing the way we keep time?

Oct 24, 2026

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

Oct 23, 2026

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

Oct 22, 2026

Jennifer Doudna on what it takes to be a good scientist

Oct 21, 2026

Getting the billion-dollar PRIMA space telescope off the ground

Oct 20, 2026

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on making climate action cool

Oct 19, 2026

Could a whale swallow a human, 'Whalefall' style?

Oct 16, 2026

Why do politicians talk like that?

Oct 15, 2026

Sargassum superblooms are choking coastlines around the Atlantic

Oct 14, 2026

Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and the women who made the internet

Oct 13, 2026

Are attachment styles more than a social media trend?

Oct 12, 2026

The science and politics of the new mRNA flu vaccine

Oct 10, 2026

What is the Kelvin wave on the West Coast?

Oct 9, 2026

The punk rock life of cephalopods

Oct 8, 2026

The Nobel winner searching for deep-space neutrinos in Antarctica

Oct 7, 2026

How important ideas get reawakened, with David Byrne

Oct 6, 2026

'The History of Concrete' with John Wilson

Oct 5, 2026

The tilcayo is the new wild cat on the block

Oct 2, 2026

Are natural history museums going extinct?

Oct 1, 2026

Examining a new lunar crater + searching for signs of alien technology

Sep 30, 2026

Did the COVID pandemic stunt kids’ development?

Sep 29, 2026

How do concussions affect the brain?

Sep 28, 2026

Are new treatments for celiac disease on the horizon?

Sep 25, 2026

Everyone is calling for safer AI. So what does that mean?

Sep 24, 2026

Underwater archeology reveals clues about Ice Age humans

Sep 23, 2026

Climate change is increasing hurricane risk for Hawaiʻi

Sep 22, 2026

Bringing hard electronics into soft and squishy bodies

Sep 21, 2026

What is lymphatic drainage, anyway?

Sep 18, 2026

Hot flashes, hormone therapy, and the science of perimenopause

Sep 17, 2026

Telling the tale of human origins, one fossil tooth at a time

Sep 16, 2026

Did the fire at the Library of Alexandria set humanity back?

Sep 15, 2026

Black bears are moving into the neighborhood. How do we coexist?

Sep 14, 2026

Is a shorter course of antibiotics OK? + Genetic risk of fibromyalgia

Sep 12, 2026

Why cannabis’s health effects are so hard to study

Sep 11, 2026

Did scientists just find a dark matter particle? Maybe

Sep 10, 2026

Why physics and philosophy need each other

Sep 9, 2026

Recall rodeo: A food safety update + Why cars are catching fire

Sep 8, 2026

Is there science behind the ‘nervous system reset’?

Sep 7, 2026

For Jennifer Chayes, math is a 'native tongue'

Sep 4, 2026

What an mRNA melanoma vaccine may mean for cancer treatment

Sep 3, 2026