Science Friday

President Trump has said that he wants to [phase out FEMA] (https://www.sciencefriday.com/... more

Most pasta is made from just two ingredients—flour and water. For decades this humble food... more

We live in a world filled with microbes—they’re inside our bodies, in soil, in deep sea hy... more

GLP-1 medications like Ozempic have dominated headlines over the past couple of years. Whe... more

In both her life and her work, researcher Karmella Haynes has never followed the pack. Kar... more

In excerpts of two conversations from the Science Friday archives (originally recorded in ... more

Summer is here, which means it’s the season for soaking up the sun. But it’s important to ... more

The latest Jurassic World movie, [“Jurassic World Rebirth,”] (https://www.sciencefriday.co... more

AI is not just for automating tasks or coming up with new recipe ideas. Increasingly, peop... more

Geologist Steve Squyres risked his career and millions of dollars to get two rovers roamin... more

Since January, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made sweeping cuts to science. ... more

The [first images] (https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/vera-rubin-space-telescope-imag... more

Last month, scientists reported a historic first: they gave the first personalized [gene-e... more

Australia is known for its unusual animal life, from koalas to kangaroos. But once upon a ... more

As a grad student, Suchitra Sebastian wasn’t sure she wanted to be a physicist. But when o... more

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) started collecting data nearly three years ago, and ... more

Ever noticed how some people get to their 80s and 90s and continue to be healthy and activ... more

While there are a lot of dinosaur fossils, and a lot of plant fossils, the precise connect... more

Last month, former President Joe Biden announced that he had been diagnosed with an aggres... more

Biochemist Virginia Man-Yee Lee has spent a lifetime in the lab, figuring out what happens... more

On Monday, US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. [ fired all 17 members] (https://www.... more

This week, China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft sent back its [first image] (https://www.sciencefr... more

The prairie might just be the most underappreciated landscape in the United States. Beginn... more

Bedbug infestations are not just a modern problem—these pests have been with early human a... more

Manu Prakash is many things—biologist, engineer, inventor, philosopher—but what he isn’t i... more

A mysterious disease called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) has been appearing in emergency r... more

It’s a precarious time for science in the United States. Federal funding is being slashed,... more

South American cane toads were brought to Australia in 1935 to help eradicate native beetl... more

Birding is a hobby that attracts a very particular group of people: the kind who get up at... more

As a young plant scientist, Joanne Chory shook up the research establishment with her unco... more