NPR: Science Friday Podcast

You've seen the ads that tell you to ask your doctor about some new pill -- yet don't tell you what the pill actually does. Join Ira and ...

A setback for private space launch firm SpaceX when one of its rockets fails during an attempted launch.

A newly-released survey of sleep habits in America finds that many people just aren't getting enough shut-eye -- and that especially ...

Researchers reported this week that a proposed vaccine for avian influenza works only some of the time, and only at high dosages.

A look at the strange world of quantum computing, where bits can be 1, 0, and both -- all at the same time. Is the universe just one big ...

Scientists reported this week that they've made an important fossil find -- a fish in the process of developing land-crawling limbs.

Researchers reported this week that they've made a functioning human bladder in the lab. How close are we to having organs made to order? ...

Ira talks with author Michael Pollan about his new book, The Omnivore's Dilemma. In it, Pollan traces four meals to their roots, following ...

We'll hear about a new fossil find of a human ancestor, some 4 million years old.

The US FDA and EPA have advised pregnant women, nursing mothers, women who may become pregnant, and nursing mothers not to eat fish that ...

Researchers have completed the first study of the effects of a calorie-restriction diet on humans. Such diets, which drastically cut food ...

Ira talks with reporter Nicholas Wade about how advances in genetic analysis are re-writing the ancient -- and recent -- history of human ...