Science Friday

Are traffic engineering decisions based on evidence-based research? Not as much as you mig... more

The Webb Space Telescope picked up traces of dimethyl sulfide on planet K2-18b. On Earth, ... more

Imagine you’re [diving into a cell] (https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/science-interp... more

Bringing back Southwest peach orchards won’t be easy, but researchers are on the lookout f... more

We are rounding up your questions about roads. What confounds you about traffic, or how in... more

On Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation heard testimony... more

We go inside the scientifically accurate ER world created for the TV show with one of its ... more

NASA is planning to decommission the International Space Station by the end of 2030. The I... more

What happens when AI moves beyond convincing chatbots and custom image generators to somet... more

In many parts of the United States, spring has sprung. There’s nothing quite like those fi... more

Over the past two decades, rates of peanut allergies in children have more than tripled. A... more

The cuts hit multiple agencies, affecting work on HIV, gun violence prevention, vaccines, ... more

Emergency response experts say that funding and staff cuts at the National Weather Service... more

In January, an [iceberg the size of Chicago] (https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/thriv... more

Mental health information on social media can be both revelatory and misleading. How do cl... more

Engineers take an in-depth look at why the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed... more

The company has genetic data of 15 million people, which could be shared with a future buy... more

Certain words are overrepresented in text written by AI language models. A study investiga... more

TB kills more than a million people each year. Dr. Mireille Kamariza has spent her career ... more

In a new book, author John Green traces how the disease has impacted culture, geography, a... more

Researchers built the largest 3D map of our universe yet. What they found supports the ide... more

After nine months aboard the International Space Station, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sun... more

The framework of [Adverse Childhood Experiences] (https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/a... more

Former NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus speaks out about what recent budget cuts and policy ... more

Fungal networks in the ground ferry crucial nutrients to plants. But how do brainless orga... more

Layoffs at the agency, which releases weather forecasts and monitors extreme weather, coul... more

It’s March 14, or [Pi Day] (https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/pi-day-2025-math-celebr... more

When you imagine prehistoric life, it’s likely that the first thing that comes to mind are... more

An international team of researchers used drones to study narwhals and learn more about th... more

A sweeping new study on one of the most beloved insects, maybe the only truly beloved inse... more