NPR: Science Friday Podcast
NPR: Science Friday Podcast
Science Friday, as heard on NPR, is a weekly discussion of the latest news in science, technology, health, and the environment hosted by ...
Working Weekends At A Psych ER
Dr. Julie Holland ran the weekend shift at Bellevue's psychiatric emergency room for nine years. In her new memoir Weekends at Bellevue, ...
'Genetic Fossils' Change Extinction Picture
Woolly mammoths and ancient horses may have been roaming the North American steppes longer than scientists thought. Evolutionary biologist ...
Eggnog: Spike And Let It Sit, For Safety
A perennial holiday dilemma: Will alcohol kill bacteria like salmonella in homemade eggnog? Microbiologists Vince Fischetti and Raymond ...
Report Adds Up Americans' Daily Appetite For Data
In the consumer report "How Much Information?" University of California technology management professor Roger Bohn writes that average ...
Data Mining Spurs Innovation, Threatens Privacy
By analyzing cell phone movements and online search queries, scientists can monitor traffic in real time and track disease outbreaks more ...
Deep Ocean Volcano Hot Topic At Geophysics Meeting
At the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union this week, high-definition footage of a deep ocean volcano spewing lava into the ...
Erasing Fears By Thinking About Them
Fearful memories can be updated — and the fear erased — without drugs, a new study in the journal Nature suggests. Study author ...
What To Get That Special Geek
Droid or iPhone? Zune or Touch? Netbook or MacBook? With holiday shopping in full swing, Ira Flatow talks with gadget guru Mark McClusky, ...
U.S. Government Sponsors High-Stakes Balloon Hunt
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) released 10 red weather balloons across the country and offered $40,000 to the first ...
Can Coffee Lower The Risk of Prostate Cancer?
New research suggests coffee is more than a pick-me-up; it may help protect against prostate cancer. Researcher Kathryn Wilson describes ...
Breast Cancer Gene Patents Challenged
A landmark lawsuit is challenging the patents Myriad Genetics holds on the so-called breast cancer genes — patents that make Myriad ...
Gauging The Climate In Copenhagen
Scientists, policymakers, activists and skeptics from around the world have gathered in Denmark's capital to figure out how to deal with ...
Can Science Make Psychotherapy More Effective?
More rigorous scientific training in clinical psychology graduate programs would turn out more competent clinicians, researchers write in ...