Science Friday Audio Podcast

Ira and guests explore why some planets stop rotating, how turning off your smartphone can help you sleep better, and how sea turtles navigate using their sense of magnetism.

Last year, for example, new solar plants outpaced coal installations in the U.S., and carbon-trading schemes across state and national borders have already begun.

For MoMA curator Paola Antonelli, “design” includes computer interfaces, video games, and maker kits.

In mice, eating within an 8-12 hour window helped to prevent and even reverse obesity and type 2 diabetes.

NASA is in early stage test flights for Orion, its updated crew capsule, but the spaceflight landscape is changing.

Scientists have linked an unprecedented starfish die-off along the West Coast to a virus.

Ants and other insects could be able to remove thousands of pounds of food waste from street medians and city parks each year.

In a Science Friday holiday tradition, we’re playing highlights from this year’s 24th First Annual Ig Nobel awards ceremony.

Should doctors share information about your risky genes with your family, since they, too, might harbor that suspect DNA sequence?

In the new art movement “art-sci,” artists take inspiration from science, use scientific techniques in their artwork, and inspire new science.

Given access to your Google calendar, a personal assistant named Amy will happily schedule all your appointments. The catch? She's a machine—a digital personal assistant.

Find out how to avoid Turkey Day trip-ups in the latest episode of our “Food Failures” series.

Female wild turkeys parse the courtship performances of males to determine their genetic potential.

Chinese adoptees living in Canada, who now speak only French, still process Chinese sounds as native speakers do, even if they have no conscious recall of word meaning.

It’s a sci-fi epic set among black holes, wormholes, and tesseracts. But director Christopher Nolan and physicist Kip Thorne say Interstellar doesn’t break the laws of physics.