Science Friday

with Ira Flatow

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

  • Why is brain cancer so hard to treat?

    Jul 31, 2026
    Brain cancers are rare, but devastating. Patients face short life expectancies after diagnosis. Brain tumors are often impossible to remove completely. And radiation and chemotherapy ...
  • How can astronaut food be better?

    Jul 30, 2026
    Astronaut food is not known as a frontier of culinary imagination, unless you count rehydrated shrimp cocktail. As NASA prepares for longer trips to the moon and Mars, is space cuisin...
  • The reality of living with extreme heat in India

    Jul 29, 2026
    At one point this year, the 50 hottest cities on the planet were all in one country: India. The average peak temperature in those cities was 112 F. India is one of the most climate vu...
  • Tracking shark populations, one shark at a time

    Jul 28, 2026
    About 130 days a year, a research vessel leaves Miami and sets out to catch, measure, sample, tag, and release sharks in Florida’s coastal waters. Over the course of a year, they’ll e...
  • The Black women codebreakers of the Cold War

    Jul 27, 2026
    During the early Cold War era, the United States Army and later the NSA began recruiting and training codebreakers and intelligence officers to decipher intercepted Soviet messages. A...
  • Why worry about my data If I have nothing to hide?

    Jul 23, 2026
    In the last couple months, Vermont, Alabama, and Oklahoma have passed data privacy laws. Massachusetts is negotiating its own version. Meanwhile, congressional lawmakers have introduc...

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