Science Friday

with Ira Flatow

The source for entertaining stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.

  • Climate Change Is Upending The Home Insurance Market

    Jul 24, 2025
    You can’t get a mortgage without home insurance. But in some parts of the country, it’s becoming harder and harder to find a plan, as insurance companies drop homeowners  and pull out...
  • What The Sigma Is Algospeak?

    Jul 23, 2025
    Gen Alpha slang can seem unintelligible to adults, but linguist and TikToker Adam Aleksic argues language development in the internet age is worth legitimate study. Adam talks to Host...
  • Why Don’t We Have A Vaccine For Lyme Disease?

    Jul 18, 2025
    It’s shaping up to be one of the worst tick years yet, and concerns about Lyme disease—which is transmitted through the bites of some species—are high. Aside from a short-lived vaccin...
  • Is This PTSD Treatment Too Good To Be True?

    Jul 17, 2025
    About 7% of veterans experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and that number can be closer to 30% for those who have served in a war zone.  But PTSD has been treated pretty ...
  • Is It Time For A New Model Of The Universe?

    Jul 16, 2025
    For decades, astronomers have been trying to nail down the value of the Hubble constant—a measure of how fast the universe is expanding. But some cosmologists say there’s evidence tha...
  • The Leap: And Then The Sub Went Silent

    Jul 14, 2025
    Oceanographer Victoria Orphan’s dream was coming true. She was sitting in the Alvin submersible, on one of its deepest science dives ever. But the trip was anything but smooth sailing...

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