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Attention, Trivia Nerds! It’s A Food Science Fact Feast
Nov 20, 2025After years of getting your emails and phone calls, we know that SciFri listeners are in the 99th percentile when it comes to nerdy knowledge. We’re putting your fact retention skills to the test with...
Can Animal Super-Agers Teach Us Their Secrets?
Nov 19, 2025Some animals have a very different relationship to aging than we do: They don’t get cancer, they never go through menopause, and they live absurdly long lives. For instance, one bat species can live ...
How Alphafold Has Changed Biology Research, 5 Years On
Nov 18, 2025Proteins are crucial for life. They're made of amino acids that “fold” into millions of different shapes. And depending on their structure, they do radically different things in our cells. For a long ...
How A Woodpecker Pecks Wood, And How Ants Crown A Queen
Nov 17, 2025If you’ve heard the hammering of a woodpecker in the woods, you might have wondered how the birds can be so forceful. What does it take to whack your head against a tree repeatedly, hard enough to dri...
Memories Change. But Can We Change Them On Purpose?
Nov 14, 2025Our memories make us who we are—just ask Barbra Streisand. But despite the lyrics in many popular songs, memories aren’t frozen in time. When we call them up, the details shift and change. And neurosc...
Bearded Vulture Nests Hold Trove Of Centuries-Old Artifacts
Nov 13, 2025Bearded vultures build giant, elaborate nests that are passed down from generation to generation. And according to a new study, some of these scavengers have collected bits and bobs of human history o...
Why The Bassist From Phish Is Funding Research Into ‘Flow State’
Nov 12, 2025The band Phish has toured for over 40 years. One of the draws of their legendary live shows—which can go on for 8 hours—is finding moments of “flow,” when the band members lock into an improvised jam,...
Even Nobel Prize Winners Deal With Imposter Syndrome
Nov 11, 2025Around 25 years ago, Ardem Patapoutian set out to investigate the fundamental biology behind our sense of touch. Through a long process of gene elimination, he identified a class of sensors in the cel...
Study Finds COVID mRNA Vaccines Boost Cancer Treatment
Nov 10, 2025Over the last five years, billions of people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. New research has found an unanticipated result of these vaccines: Cancer treatments are more ef...
Were Dinos On Their Way Out Before The Asteroid Hit? Maybe Not
Nov 07, 2025One of the biggest debates in the dinosaur world is what was happening right before they went extinct. Were they already declining, or would they have thrived if not for the asteroid? Two recent studi...