Science Friday: Video Podcast

A perennial holiday dilemma: will alcohol kill the bacteria in homemade eggnog? Microbiologists Vince Fischetti and Raymond Schuch, from ...

"Food coma" takes on new meaning when you feed nematodes a light-sensitive chemical. After the meal, the worms become paralyzed if exposed ...

It's the holiday season. How are you coping?

Like a digital video puppet, the facial expressions of one person can be cloned in real time and mapped onto the digital face of another ...

How did multicellular organisms evolve? Sophia Tintori and Cassandra Extavour, developmental biologist at Harvard, talk about the ...

Sam Easterson is the curator of the Museum of Animal Perspectives--an online repository of remotely-sensed wildlife imagery. All the ...

Braddock Bay, on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, is a prime pit stop for migrating birds. In a converted hot dog stand near the Bay, ...

Neil DeGrasse Tyson recounts the controversy about America's favorite former planet -- Pluto. He talks with Ira in the NPR studio in New ...

David Bonter, ornithologist at Cornell University and vice president of the Braddock Bay Bird Observatory, took us to Braddock Bay to learn ...

For nearly 100 years, scientists have been trying to create a meandering river in the lab. Christian Braudrick and Bill Dietrich of ...

Michael Musnick studies wood turtles in the Great Swamp -- a stretch of wetland about 60 miles north of New York City. He found turtles ...

Tim Stark, tomato farmer and owner of Eckerton Hill Farm in Lobachsville, PA, describes his battle with late blight this summer.

Squid (the kind served as calamari) can make their skin pulse different colors. Biologist Casey Dunn and his student Sophia Tintori were ...