Science Friday

[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

Pompeii is known for its disastrous end with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, but for arche... more

An outbreak of the foodborne illness [cyclosporiasis] (https://www.sciencefriday.com/segme... more

The [Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope] (https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/roman-spac... more

For two decades, a perplexing illness has been spreading: After a [lone-star tick bite] (h... more

One of the most irresistible questions in sci-fi stories about aliens is what our reaction... more

Dino Martins has plucked maggots out of a dead elephant, pulled botflies out of camel snot... more

In March, China became the first country to approve an invasive brain-computer interface b... more

What happens when the skies are no longer dark at night? Writer Craig Childs biked from th... more

The ongoing [Ebola outbreak] (https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/global-health-systems... more

Gut feelings, trusting your gut, butterflies: We have lots of expressions about how our [b... more

The band Phish has toured for over 40 years. One of the draws of their legendary live show... more

Americans pay roughly three times as much for prescription meds as people in other wealthy... more

If you hear “colonial America” and “science,” one name probably comes to mind: Benjamin Fr... more

Researchers have engineered an [artificial cell] (https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/a... more

Imagine this: You’re an astronaut, you’ve landed on the moon, and as you’re taking one sma... more

Around 25 years ago, Ardem Patapoutian set out to investigate the fundamental biology behi... more

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, deep in the mountains of the Yukon, a ground squirrel ... more

[Pancreatic cancer] (https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/new-treatments-pancreatic-canc... more

On a hot summer day, there’s nothing better than a dip in a cold pool. But you know who ca... more

The federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed rule changes that would bri... more