Science Friday

with Ira Flatow

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

  • What Did It Feel Like To Be An Early Human?

    Oct 23, 2025
    Do science documentaries need a refresh? What if the goal wasn’t just teaching you something, but making you feel something? A new series from the BBC, airing on PBS, called “Human” t...
  • TikTok Is Shaping How We Think About ADHD

    Oct 22, 2025
    TikTok and other social media sites are full of mental health content—often short, grabby, first-person videos detailing symptoms for conditions like ADHD and autism. But what does th...
  • How Math Helps Us Map The World

    Oct 16, 2025
    It’s easy to take maps for granted. After all, most of us have a pretty good map in our pockets at all times, ready to show us how to get anywhere on the globe. But to make a map usef...
  • 100 Years Later, Quantum Science Is Still Weird

    Oct 13, 2025
    In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually become known as quantum theory. A hundred years later, tha...

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