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Each week Science Friday, hosted by Ira Flatow, focuses on science topics that are in the news and brings an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand.

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People walking through a heavily flooded area
Energy
Environment
Government Accountability

World on ‘thin ice’ as UN climate report gives stark warning

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said we must cut carbon pollution by two-thirds in the next dozen years.

3 years ago

Dr. Gunther von Hagens and Dr. Angelina Whalley working on a plastinate.
The Pulse
Medicine

9/11 rescue worker chooses to have her body preserved after death

9/11 rescue worker wants the world to see the toll the work took on her body.

3 years ago

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Jennifer Addo Kaby (right) and Susan Kelly (left) became friends after Kelly’s father donated his body to a unique gross anatomy course that required students to communicate with the family of the body donor. The course was held at Indiana University School of Medicine and was discontinued in 2018.
The Pulse
Medicine

How a med student’s ‘first patient’ created lasting friendships

For more than a decade, a unique gross anatomy course at Indiana University required students to get to know the family of the donated cadaver they worked on.

3 years ago

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The company behind the ChatGPT chatbot has on Wednesday, March 15 rolled out its latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-4, in a new advance for the technology that’s caught the world's attention. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Technology

What can ChatGPT maker’s new AI model GPT-4 do?

Here's a look at what the latest ChatGPT model can and can't do.

3 years ago

Logs of coconut husk known as coir sit on the bank of the Shark River in Neptune, N.J., Jan. 31, 2023, where the American Littoral Society doing a shoreline restoration project incorporating coconut fibers. The material is being used in shoreline stabilization projects around the world
New Jersey
Outdoors
Sustainability

How coconuts protect the Jersey Shore, other eroding coasts

From the sands of the Jersey Shore to the islands of Indonesia, strands of coconut husk are being incorporated into shoreline protection projects.

4 years ago

NASA engineer
The Pulse

Bringing Physics from Theory to Practice

Science is all about observing the world. But how do you study something you can’t see, smell, or hear — like the tiniest particles a ...

Air Date: March 10, 2023

Listen 49:19
Senior machinist Joe Diamond is working on the stainless steel transition plates that will be installed inside the vacuum vessel and on the center stack.
The Pulse
Energy
Technology

Behind the scenes of a $200 million nuclear fusion experiment

How scientists and engineers make parts for a nuclear fusion experiment at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey.

4 years ago

Listen 8:58
Close-up of bodies of fruit flies at various ages of developments.
NPR
Animals
Environment
Health Care

The first wiring map of an insect’s brain hints at incredible complexity

Researchers have mapped the more than 500,000 connections in the intricate brain of a fruit fly larva. This map could help scientists better understand the human brain.

4 years ago

Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev spent three months in the Siberian Arctic, filming marine biologist, Maxim Chakilev and his research on how climate change is affecting the pacific walrus population. Their film, Haulout, is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film for 2023. (The New Yorker Studios)
The Pulse
Animals
Environment

Surrounded by Walruses: The Making of ‘Haulout’

In 2018, brother and sister filmmaking duo Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev traveled to a beach in the Siberian Arctic — an area in ...

Air Date: March 8, 2023

Listen 17:24
Environmentalists from Ducks Unlimited and other organizations are using $500,000 in funding to restore saltwater marshes in Delaware and New Jersey. Saltwater marshes protect communities from flooding, and provide habitat for birds and fish. (Courtesy of Ducks Unlimited)
Animals
Delaware
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors

Novel method will help restore Delaware and New Jersey salt marshes

Climate change threatens to “drown” Delaware’s salt marshes. New funds from the National Wildlife Foundation will use a novel method to restore them.

4 years ago

A solar array at the Nittany 1 Solar Farm
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania ranks near bottom of states in renewable energy generation

Pennsylvania ranks near the bottom of states when it comes to generating renewable energy.

4 years ago

The Pulse

What Makes a Pest a Pest?

Pests: We know them when we see them. The mice that lurk in our kitchens, the squirrels that steal our tomatoes, the mosquitoes that bite ...

Air Date: March 3, 2023

Listen 49:30
Science writer Bethany Brookshire has an enemy who lives in her backyard: a gray squirrel she named “Kevin.” In her new book, she says we can rethink our relationships with animals we call “pests” like squirrels, rats, pigeons, pythons and more. (Gael Dupont-langevin)
The Pulse
Animals
Environment

How we decide which animals are pests, and why 

Even for the most devoted animal lover among us, there are animals that we hate and try to avoid, or kill: rats, mice, pigeons, invasive snakes. We call these animals pests.

4 years ago

Listen 22:01
Security guards stand in front of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 11, 2020, after the market had been closed following an outbreak of COVID-19 there. Two studies document samples of SARS-CoV-2 from stalls where live animals were sold. (Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Health Care
International
Medicine
Public Health

What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic?

Since the COVID pandemic began three years ago, its origin has been a topic of much scientific — and political — debate.

4 years ago

The Pulse
Medicine

From med spas to DIY: Botox is everywhere but not without risks

For a product whose toxic origins trace back to a biological weapons lab in Maryland, Botox has helped normalize cosmetic injectables

4 years ago

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