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Smoke Chasers, Colorado Apples, Pikas. June 21, 2019, Part 2

When wildfires rage in the West, Colorado State University atmospheric scientist Emily Fischer...

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The Best Summer Science Books. June 14, 2019, Part 2

The Best Science Books To Read This Summer They say a vacation is only as good as the book you...

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Degrees Of Change: Urban Heat Islands. June 14, 2019, Part 1

We’ve known for more than 200 years that cities are hotter than surrounding rural areas. All that...

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Gender Bias In Research Trials, Antarctica, Tornado Engineering. June 7, 2019, Part 1

For half a century, most neuroscience experiments have had one glaring flaw: They've ignored...

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Quantum Leaps, Cancer Drugs, Cat Cameras. June 7, 2019, Part 2

The “spooky physics” of the quantum world has long been marked by two key ideas: The idea of...

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SciFri Extra: Remembering Murray Gell-Mann

Physicist Murray Gell-Mann died recently at the age of 89. He received the 1969 Nobel Prize in...

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Climate Politics, Football and Math, Ether. May 31, 2019, Part 2

A green wave is sweeping through Washington, and it’s picking up Republicans who are eager to...

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Spoiler Alert, Glyphosate, Unisexual Salamanders. May 31, 2019, Part 1

How many times has this happened to you? You’re standing in front of an open freezer, wondering...

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SciFri Extra: A Relatively Important Eclipse

This week marks the 100th anniversary of an eclipse that forever changed physics and our...

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Ebola Outbreak, Climate Play, Navajo Energy. May 24, 2019, Part 1

What would it take to power a subsea factory of the future? Plus, other stories from this week in...

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Bees! May 24, 2019, Part 2

For the hobby beekeeper, there’s much to consider when homing your first domestic honey bee...

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Degrees Of Change: Sea Level Rise, Coal-Use Decline. May 17, 2019, Part 1

As the frequency of tropical storms and droughts increase and sea levels rise with climate...

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New Horizons Discovery, Science Fair Finalists, Screams. May 17, 2019, Part 2

The most happening New Year’s Party of 2019 wasn’t at Times Square or Paris—it was in the small...

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Biodiversity Report And The Science Of Parenting. May 10, 2019, Part 2

According to a new UN report on global biodiversity, as many as one million species—both plants...

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Superconductivity Search, Ride-Share Congestion, Lions Vs. Porcupines. May 10, 2019, Part 1

Six decades ago, a group of physicists came up with a theory that described electrons at a low...

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Business Planning For Climate Change,The Digital Afterlife. May 3, 2019, Part 1

Scientists have built all sorts of models to predict the likelihood of extreme weather events....

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Neuroscientists Peer Into The Mind's Eye, Alexander von Humboldt. May 3, 2019, Part 2

It sounds like a sci-fi plot: Hook a real brain up to artificial intelligence, and let the two...

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Degrees of Change: Sponge Cities and Pocket Prairies. April 26, 2019, Part 1

Climate change is happening—now we need to deal with it. Degrees of Change, a new series of...

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Measles, Poetry Month, Lemur Hibernation. April 26, 2019, Part 2

Back in 1963, before the development of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, there were...

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5G, Pig Brains, Privacy For Nature. April 19, 2019, Part 1

Last week, President Trump announced a new initiative to push forward the implementation of 5G,...

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