Science Friday

When you think of physics, your mind might go to forces—like gravity, friction, and magnet... more

When you ask an LLM like ChatGPT or Claude a question, the model goes through its massive ... more

Watching a loved one with Alzheimer's or dementia slowly lose their cognitive abilities ca... more

Winter in Colorado looked very different this year. Many parts of the state experienced re... more

The earth is facing a biodiversity crisis, and there’s a lot of attention on species that ... more

President Trump has signed an executive order calling for a change to the childhood vaccin... more

In a lab in the Rocky Mountains, a group of scientists is hard at work trying to find answ... more

Human childbirth is often difficult and incredibly painful—just ask anyone who’s been thro... more

Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, was the first ... more

Keeping your butt in a seat for hours a day increases the risk of heart attacks, diabetes,... more

Dr. Masao Tomonaga was only 2 years old when the United States bombed his home city of Nag... more

Imagine you wanted to get a general idea of what people are eating in a given community. Y... more

"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from realit... more

In nature, enzymes are the catalysts that make much of biology work. They jumpstart chemic... more

Brain cancers are rare, but devastating. Patients face short life expectancies after diagn... more

[Astronaut food] (https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/astronaut-food-improvement-space-... more

At one point this year, the 50 hottest cities on the planet were all in one country: India... more

About 130 days a year, a research vessel leaves Miami and sets out to catch, measure, samp... more

During the early Cold War era, the United States Army and later the NSA began recruiting a... more

The tropical waters of Sri Lanka, an island off the coast of India, are home to a populati... more

In the last couple months, Vermont, Alabama, and Oklahoma have passed data privacy laws. M... more

In 2020, Andrea Ghez shared the Nobel Prize for her observations of a supermassive compact... more

Back in May, a paper published in Nature Sustainability reignited a decades-old debate abo... more