Book Club Birds, Amazon Burning. August 23, 2019, Part 1
“Bird-brain” has long been an insult meant to imply slow-wittedness or stupidity. But in reading...
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Book Club Birds, Amazon Burning. August 23, 2019, Part 1
“Bird-brain” has long been an insult meant to imply slow-wittedness or stupidity. But in reading...
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Climate And Farming, Mars 2020, Fireflies. August 23, 2019, Part 2
From cutting back on fossil fuels to planting a million trees, people and policymakers around the...
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Live in San Antonio: Deadly Disease, Bats, Birds. Aug. 16, 2019, Part 2
Imagine stepping into a white suit, pulling on thick rubber gloves and a helmet with a clear face...
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Lightning, Electric Scooters, News Roundup. Aug. 16, 2019, Part 1
Lightning during a heavy rainstorm is one of the most dramatic phenomena on the planet—and it...
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Wiring Rural Texas, Visiting Jupiter and Saturn. Aug 9, 2019, Part 2
High-speed internet access is becoming a necessity of modern life, but connecting over a million...
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Northwest Passage Project, Birds and Color. Aug 9, 2019, Part 1
First, tardigrades on the moon, feral hogs on Earth, and more news from this week’s News Roundup....
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Ethics Of Hawaiian Telescope, Bird Song, Alaska Universities Budget Cut. August 2, 2019, Part 1
Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in Hawaii, towering over the Pacific at nearly 14,000 feet....
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Is Chemical Sunscreen Safe, Slime, Amazon Deforestation. August 2, 2019, Part 2
Sunscreen has been on the shelves of drugstores since the mid-1940s. And while new kinds of...
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Anonymous Data, Birding Basics. July 26, 2019, Part 1
The Science Friday Book Club is buckling down to read Jennifer Ackerman’s The Genius of Birds...
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Ice Cream Science, Online Language. July 26, 2019, Part 2
Have you ever tried to make your favorite rocky road flavored ice cream at home, but your...
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Apollo Anniversary And Bird Book Club. July 19, 2019, Part 1
Celebrating Apollo's 'Giant Leap' July 20, 1969 was a day that changed us forever—the first time...
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Moon Art, Space History, And NASA's Megarocket. July 19, 2019, Part 2
Our Lunar Muse Most of us remember that iconic photograph of the Apollo 11 moon landing: Buzz...
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Degrees of Change: Food and Climate. July 12, 2019, Part 1
A quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from putting food on the table. From the...
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Mosquitos and Smell, Fermentation, Model Rocket Launch. July 12, 2019, Part 2
If you’ve ever tried brewing your own beer or raising your own sourdough, then you know that the...
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Science Road Trips, Archaeology From Space. July 5, 2019, Part 1
Summer is here—and that means it’s time for a road trip! Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, co-authors...
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The Bastard Brigade, Spontaneous Generation. July 5, 2019, Part 2
Much has been written about the Manhattan Project, the American-led project to develop the atomic...
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Cephalopod Week Wrap-Up, USDA Climate Change, Sinking Louisiana. June 28, 2019, Part 1
The eight-day squid-and-kin appreciation extravaganza of Cephalopod Week is nearly over, but...
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Paternity, Musical Proteins, Microbiome In Runners. June 28, 2019, Part 2
These days, a scientific paternity test is easily acquired, and its results are seen as almost...
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The official U.S. time is kept on a cesium fountain clock named NIST-F1, located in Boulder,...
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Cephalopod Week 2019, Climate and Microbes, Puppy Eyes, Wave Energy. June 21, 2019, Part 1
For eight glorious days during the end of June, Science Friday honors the mighty mollusks of the...
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