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Covering the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies, Science Friday is the source for entertaining and educational stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.
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Jump, Spin, Glide: The Science Of Figure Skating
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How Are State-Run Psilocybin Therapy Programs Going?
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A Little Grime Can Boost Kids’ Health. But What Kind?
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Mating, Marriage, And Monogamy In The Age Of Apps
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What A Tea Party With A Bonobo Taught Us About Imagination
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How Is Screen Time Affecting My Kid?
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Who Wants To Smell An Ancient Embalmed Mummy?
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Stressed About The World? Take A Cue From Cyanobacteria
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The Largest US Particle Collider Stops Its Collisions
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Olympic Ski Mountaineering, And Mountain Goat Climbing Feats
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Why Worry About My Data If I Have Nothing To Hide?
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Should Ultraprocessed Foods Be Off The Menu?
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The Growing Experiment Of Putting Solar Panels On Farmland
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We’re All Being Played By Metrics
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The Middle + SciFri: How Can Trust In Science Be Restored?
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Untangling The History Of Dog Domestication
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A Science Historian Tackles Ghostwriting In Scientific Papers
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How China Is Driving Down Electricity Costs With Renewables
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Managing The Risks Of Spaceflight, 40 Years After Challenger
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How A Mutation Made This Year’s Flu Season So Bad
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Tracking The Toxic Fallout Of The LA Fires
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Deepfakes Are Everywhere. What Can We Do?
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Looking Beyond Statins For New Ways To Lower Cholesterol
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States Expected To See More ‘Anti-Science’ Bills This Year
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What’s Happening On The Slippery Surface Of Ice?
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Teasing Apart The Causes And Early Signs Of Parkinson’s
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What Greenland Sharks Are Teaching Us About Aging Eyes
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Secrets Of Ancient Concrete, And... Data Centers In Space?
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One Year Into Trump’s Term, Where Does Science Funding Stand?
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Drilling Into The Details Of Venezuela’s Oil
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‘The Kissing Bug’ And The Story Of A Neglected Disease
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Are Raccoons On The Road To Domestication?
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The Community Group Rethinking LA's Approach To Wildfires
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What Should Astronauts Do First When They Reach Mars?
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Can The Rise In Solar Power Balance Out Clean Energy Cuts?
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Are Ultramarathoners Just Built Different?
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Your Cells Are Always Building A Whole New You
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A Look Back At 2025 In Science, From Federal Cuts To Space Junk
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How Death Metal Singers Make Their Extreme Vocalizations
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What The Sigma Is Algospeak?
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Tangling With Entanglement And Other Big Ideas In Physics
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The Science Of Thriving In Winter—By Embracing It
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A Neurologist Investigates His Own Musical Hallucinations
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‘Prehistoric Planet’ Defrosts Strange Animals Of The Ice Age
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How Did Vaccine Policies Actually Change In 2025?
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Why Astronomers Are Excited About Comet 3I/ATLAS’ Close Approach
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‘Fire Amoeba’ Likes It Hot, And A Faraway Lava Planet
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What’s The Reality Behind The Humanoid Robot Hype?
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'Just' A Blue Jay? Don't Overlook These Magnificent Common Birds
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Can We Just Throw Our Plastic Garbage Into A Volcano?
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