Science Friday: Video Podcast

Twice a year, the sunset lines up with New York City's street grid -- making for spectacular views. Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the ...

To celebrate the birthday of the telescope, we hit the streets of New York City to find out what people know about the telescope and its ...

High school science teacher Sam Terfa wanted to demonstrate a fundamental physics principle: resonant frequency. So found the best singer ...

Agave plants, probably best known as the source of tequila, were important as a food crop long before the invention of the margarita. ...

Anthropologist Bill Jungers shows off a new cast of the most complete skeleton of Homo floresiensis -- also known as the “hobbit.” The ...

Colorado College ornithology professor Brian Linkhart has studied Flammulated owls in Colorado for almost 30 years. The video, submitted by ...

Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, was filmed shaking his tail feathers to the Backstreet Boys. It was a YouTube sensation. A couple of ...

Mathematician Robert Osserman explores the math behind the St. Louis Gateway Arch.

SciFri producer Annette Heist's terrier was sprayed by a skunk, sending her looking for a deodorizing remedy. Chemists William Wood and ...

Shake a metal plate covered in sand at certain frequencies and mysterious patterns appear. Find out why the demonstration, published in ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit conducted a candy corn experiment while he lived aboard the International Space Station.

Watch spectacular time lapse videos taken from the International Space Station.

Field ecologist Bruce Means shows off an Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) that he caught near Tallahassee, Fla.