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Weekly podcast of 'Science Friday,' a science and technology news discussion program heard on public radio stations across the USA. Primary Format : Science Language : English Also Listed as: City : New York State/Province : NY Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Science Friday Podcasts Methings.com listings of Science Friday Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Science Friday Brushing Up On Tropical Diseases Dengue fever, malaria and other tropical diseases took center stage at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene conference. Nathan Seppa of Science News offers details, including a strange story of palm trees, fruit bats and human infection. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rethinking The Human Future In Space With NASA reporting a "significant amount" of water on the lunar surface, is it time to re-examine our priorities regarding living and working in space? Mark Sykes, director of the Planetary Science Institute, talks about why and how people should venture beyond Earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Personalizing Solar Power Researchers are hoping to improve solar energy installations by coupling a solar panel to an efficient hydrolysis unit that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen. Daniel Nocera of MIT says the approach could lead to personal solar power units that could get many houses off the grid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking Turkey About Holiday Stress The holiday season is here and for many that can mean a surge in stress. But what is stress exactly? Science Friday hit the streets of New York City to gauge stress levels and consulted with experts on the effects of stress and strategies for how to cope. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Debating Benefits, Risks Of Routine Mammograms New guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommend women start getting routine mammograms at age 50, not 40. Ira Flatow and guests take a closer look at the guidelines and what they mean for women's health. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Book Recounts Challenges Of Eradicating Smallpox In Smallpox: The Death of a Disease, Dr. D.A. Henderson recounts the history of the deadly virus, from the development of the first vaccine in the late 18th century to his involvement in the successful global eradication campaign in the 1960s and 70s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Real-Life Physics Problems Star On TV The stars of The Big Bang Theory are two fictional Caltech physicists, but the physics problems they study are real. Bill Prady, the program's co-creator and executive producer, talks about including real-world science in the script, from dark matter to magnetic monopoles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do Moon Craters Harbor Caches Of Water Ice? A NASA rocket slammed into a lunar crater in October. A second spacecraft followed minutes later, taking inventory of kicked-up debris and sending data to Earth. Scientists have now analyzed those data, which may reveal whether the moon harbors significant quantities of water ice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sailing Through Space, On A Starboard Tack In the vacuum of space, photons — not wind — may someday fill the sails of lightweight spacecraft, propelling them without need for engines or fuel. Louis Friedman, executive director of The Planetary Society, discusses the society's plans for a sailing spaceship prototype. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Therapists Split On Multiple Personalities Can people develop different personalities in response to abuse? Some therapists say up to one percent of the population suffer from dissociative identity disorder. Others say the disease doesn't exist, or is very rare. Two therapists discuss the controversial diagnosis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clone That Smile, Digitally Researchers have figured out how to track the facial expressions of one person and map those movements onto a digital image of another person's face in real time. The result is something like a digital video puppet, which psychologists say may reveal something about human nature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Graphic Novels Explain Science, Colorfully Moving beyond traditional superheroes, two new graphic novels recount the epic tales of scientists and the research that made them famous. Ira Flatow talks with authors Michael Keller and Apostolos Doxiadis about their graphic novels on natural selection and logic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One-Woman Show Explores Human Side Of Health Care Actress Anna Deavere Smith traveled across the country interviewing people about their thoughts on health care. From an injured bull rider to a medical school dean, she recounts what she heard through monologues in her latest documentary-style theater production, Let Me Down Easy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building A Better Lightbulb The U.S. Department of Energy is offering $10 million to the first individual or company to develop an energy-efficient LED replacement for the standard 60-watt incandescent bulb. DOE lighting program manager James Brodrick discusses the L Prize, and what makes a better bulb. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Oceans Survive The Human Appetite For Seafood? Faced with declining fish stocks, many nations are looking for sustainable ways to have their fish — and eat it too. But how much fishing is too much? Oceanographer Sylvia Earle discusses this and other topics in her book The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Students Build Living Microbial Machines At the 2009 International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, undergraduates from all over the world unveiled the living machines they'd created with snippets of DNA, from bacteria that change color when they detect pollutants to ones that secrete non-toxic superglue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giving Athletes A Heads-Up On Concussions Football players take a lot of hits, but when does hard-headed play go too far? New research suggests that head trauma can do lasting damage. Two brain researchers talk about what happens in the brain when a player gets hit, and how athletes can better protect themselves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Considering Values In The Health Care Debate As health care legislation moves through Congress, bioethicist Thomas H. Murray asks if enough attention is being paid to concepts such as justice, fairness and liberty. Murray and health care economist Len Nichols discuss the role of values in the health care debate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Examining Gene Therapy As Treatment For Blindness Reporting in The Lancet, doctors found success in treating Leber's congenital amaurosis, a rare type of blindness, with gene therapy. Study author Katherine High explains how injecting a gene-carrying virus into the eye has improved vision in a handful of patients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Birthday, Internet On Oct. 29, 1969, around 10:30 P.M., a message from one computer was sent over a modified phone line to another computer hundreds of miles away. Some say the Internet was born that day. UCLA computer scientist Leonard Kleinrock, who was there, gives his account. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website