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WEB4 days ago — What Research Shows About Smartphone Bans In Schools. Researchers, educators, and parents discuss smartphones in school. Plus, why research on how social media affects teens defies easy answers. Science Friday is your trusted source for news and entertaining stories about science. It's brain fun for curious people.
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WEBAugust 2, 2024. Cancer treatment and prevention has come a long way in the past few decades. Plus, a University of Hawaiʻi study will be the largest of its kind to investigate the health and social impacts of the Maui wildfires. And, researchers found that polymetallic nodules 13,000 feet deep may produce “dark oxygen” by electrolyzing water.
Microsoft Makes Deal To Restart Three Mile Island
WEB4 days ago — But now, tech giant Microsoft has made a deal with the nuclear site to reopen Three Mile Island, and purchase all of its generating capacity over the next 20 years. As Big Tech bets big on artificial intelligence, the need for electricity to power data centers is increasing tremendously. Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates is a large investor in ...
The Best Of Science Friday, 2023
WEBDec 18, 2023 — In 2023, Chat GPT took over the news, NASA finished a years-long journey to sample a distant asteroid, and the word “rizz” was recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary.As always, it’s been a year full of new questions—for science and the world at large. Science Friday has ridden 2023’s eventful wave, bringing listeners into the dialogue around the most pressing science topics ...
The Hidden Physics In Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’
WEB4 days ago — The study authors measured the relative scale and spacing of the whirling brush strokes in van Gogh’s “The Starry Night,” along with variances in luminance of the paint, to see if the laws that apply in the physics of real skies apply in the artist’s depiction. The results suggest van Gogh captured multiple dimensions of atmospheric ...
About Science Friday
WEBScience Friday is your trusted source for news and entertaining stories about science. Science Friday is an award-winning producer of high quality, fact-checked, and trustworthy science news and educational programming. For 30 years, we’ve introduced top scientists to public radio listeners, and reminded them how much fun it is to learn ...
The Best Stories This Year From Science Friday, 2022
WEBDec 15, 2022 — 2022 is almost at an end, and it’s been a year full of news that has changed the world. The rippling impacts of events like the repeal of Roe v.Wade, the war in Ukraine, and the emerging tripledemic have shaped some of the most important stories at Science Friday this year. We also began our Reproductive Health and Mental Health spotlights, to serve the expanding concerns our audiences face ...
Science Friday
WEBScience Friday. Covering everything about science and technology -- from the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies -- Science Friday is your source for entertaining and educational stories and activities. Each week, host Ira Flatow interviews scientists and inventors like Sylvia Earle, Elon Musk, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and ...
January 14, 2022 - Science Friday
WEBJanuary 14, 2022 - Science Friday. January 14, 2022. A record number of children are in the hospital with COVID-19. Two pediatric specialists explain why. Plus, the contentious origin of the Big Bang theory. And scientists discover massive amounts of …
The Best Of Science Friday, 2021
WEBDec 16, 2021 — The Best Of Science Friday, 2021. It’s time to say goodbye to 2021, a year that was notably different, yet eerily similar to last one’s. And once again, some of the biggest stories in the world were science-related. As we entered the second year of the pandemic, Science Friday deepened our coverage of COVID-19 and its variants, and fact ...