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Science Friday
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About Science Friday
Science Friday is a podcast with 1,421 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. PodLexicon indexes every episode of Science Friday and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Topics Covered on Science Friday
Lewis and Clark Route Wildlife Survey Wildlife Recovery Through Conservation Policy Ongoing Habitat Loss and Industrial Pressure Prairie Dogs as a Conservation Concern Human Presence as a Direct Disturbance to Wildlife Big Data Methods for Ecology Deep evolutionary history of mammals Coevolution of mammals and dinosaurs
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Recent Episodes
What is the Kelvin wave on the West Coast? — October 09, 2026The punk rock life of cephalopods — October 08, 2026The Nobel winner searching for deep-space neutrinos in Antarctica — October 07, 2026How important ideas get reawakened, with David Byrne — October 06, 2026'The History of Concrete' with John Wilson — October 05, 2026The tilcayo is the new wild cat on the block — October 02, 2026Are natural history museums going extinct? — October 01, 2026Examining a new lunar crater + searching for signs of alien technology — September 30, 2026Did the COVID pandemic stunt kids’ development? — September 29, 2026How do concussions affect the brain? — September 28, 2026Are new treatments for celiac disease on the horizon? — September 25, 2026Everyone is calling for safer AI. So what does that mean? — September 24, 2026Underwater archeology reveals clues about Ice Age humans — September 23, 2026Climate change is increasing hurricane risk for Hawaiʻi — September 22, 2026Bringing hard electronics into soft and squishy bodies — September 21, 2026What is lymphatic drainage, anyway? — September 18, 2026Hot flashes, hormone therapy, and the science of perimenopause — September 17, 2026Telling the tale of human origins, one fossil tooth at a time — September 16, 2026Did the fire at the Library of Alexandria set humanity back? — September 15, 2026Black bears are moving into the neighborhood. How do we coexist? — September 14, 2026Is a shorter course of antibiotics OK? + Genetic risk of fibromyalgia — September 12, 2026Why cannabis’s health effects are so hard to study — September 11, 2026Did scientists just find a dark matter particle? Maybe — September 10, 2026Why physics and philosophy need each other — September 09, 2026Recall rodeo: A food safety update + Why cars are catching fire — September 08, 2026Is there science behind the ‘nervous system reset’? — September 07, 2026For Jennifer Chayes, math is a 'native tongue' — September 04, 2026What an mRNA melanoma vaccine may mean for cancer treatment — September 03, 2026Why it's so hard to tell the age of a fungus — September 02, 2026The power of the stories we tell about the ocean — September 01, 2026What should astronauts do first when they reach Mars? — August 31, 2026AI is everywhere in healthcare now. Doctors are conflicted — August 28, 2026How much worse was that storm because of climate change? — August 27, 2026How GPS shaped our world — August 26, 2026The ancient Roman doctrine guiding modern environmental fights — August 25, 2026What are the mysterious ‘little red dots’ in images of space? — August 24, 2026Could we live in a dinosaur world? — August 22, 2026Do microplastics in the body affect pregnancy? — August 21, 2026Making a case for physicists to join climate research — August 20, 2026Creating 'world models' for robots + An AI math shakeup — August 19, 2026What can moments of lucidity teach us about Alzheimer’s? — August 18, 2026Colorado’s snow drought deals a major blow to recreation — August 17, 2026How do you find a ‘lost’ species? — August 14, 2026What we get wrong about vaccine hesitancy — August 13, 2026Why this lab studies the speed of bug pee and other curiosities — August 12, 2026Some primates undergo even more extreme childbirth than humans — August 11, 2026Deb Haaland is a politician, and proud of it — August 10, 2026Sitting all day is terrible for us. Moving a little can help — August 07, 2026A Nagasaki survivor and physician recounts his life's work — August 06, 2026What do people eat? Plant and animal DNA in sewage provide clues — August 05, 2026
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