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2855 - The SciFri Book Club reads ‘The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year’

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2855 - The SciFri Book Club reads ‘The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year’

Fri, 6 Nov 2026
2854 - Meet the tiny, see-through fish that can regenerate its brain

Thu, 5 Nov 2026
2853 - Why is everyone so obsessed with protein?

Wed, 4 Nov 2026
2852 - What a trapped antimatter particle could tell us about reality

Tue, 3 Nov 2026
2851 - Why are armadillos moving up north?

Mon, 2 Nov 2026
2850 - When, and where, did bats first take to the sky?

Fri, 30 Oct 2026
2849 - People are microdosing GLP-1s for weight loss. Is it safe?

Thu, 29 Oct 2026
2848 - Terence Tao on how AI math solutions miss the point

Wed, 28 Oct 2026
2847 - What was life like for Tyrannosaurus rex?

Tue, 27 Oct 2026
2846 - Isabella Rossellini on how acting connects to animal cognition

Mon, 26 Oct 2026
2845 - Why are we changing the way we keep time?

Sat, 24 Oct 2026
2844 - Kazuo Ishiguro on emotional truth in sci-fi and in our AI reality

Fri, 23 Oct 2026
2843 - Is that garbage can bear resistant? These bears will find out

Thu, 22 Oct 2026
2842 - Jennifer Doudna on what it takes to be a good scientist

Wed, 21 Oct 2026
2841 - Getting the billion-dollar PRIMA space telescope off the ground

Tue, 20 Oct 2026
2840 - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on making climate action cool

Mon, 19 Oct 2026
2839 - Could a whale swallow a human, 'Whalefall' style?

Fri, 16 Oct 2026
2838 - Why do politicians talk like that?

Thu, 15 Oct 2026
2837 - Sargassum superblooms are choking coastlines around the Atlantic

Wed, 14 Oct 2026
2836 - Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and the women who made the internet

Tue, 13 Oct 2026
2835 - Are attachment styles more than a social media trend?

Mon, 12 Oct 2026
2834 - The science and politics of the new mRNA flu vaccine

Sat, 10 Oct 2026
2833 - What is the Kelvin wave on the West Coast?

Fri, 9 Oct 2026
2832 - The punk rock life of cephalopods

Thu, 8 Oct 2026
2831 - The Nobel winner searching for deep-space neutrinos in Antarctica

Wed, 7 Oct 2026
2830 - How important ideas get reawakened, with David Byrne

Tue, 6 Oct 2026
2829 - 'The History of Concrete' with John Wilson

Mon, 5 Oct 2026
2828 - The tilcayo is the new wild cat on the block

Fri, 2 Oct 2026
2827 - Are natural history museums going extinct?

Thu, 1 Oct 2026
2826 - Examining a new lunar crater + searching for signs of alien technology

Wed, 30 Sep 2026
2825 - Did the COVID pandemic stunt kids’ development?

Tue, 29 Sep 2026
2824 - How do concussions affect the brain?

Mon, 28 Sep 2026
2823 - Are new treatments for celiac disease on the horizon?

Fri, 25 Sep 2026
2822 - Everyone is calling for safer AI. So what does that mean?

Thu, 24 Sep 2026
2821 - Underwater archeology reveals clues about Ice Age humans

Wed, 23 Sep 2026
2820 - Climate change is increasing hurricane risk for Hawaiʻi

Tue, 22 Sep 2026
2819 - Bringing hard electronics into soft and squishy bodies

Mon, 21 Sep 2026
2818 - What is lymphatic drainage, anyway?

Fri, 18 Sep 2026
2817 - Hot flashes, hormone therapy, and the science of perimenopause

Thu, 17 Sep 2026
2816 - Telling the tale of human origins, one fossil tooth at a time

Wed, 16 Sep 2026
2815 - Did the fire at the Library of Alexandria set humanity back?

Tue, 15 Sep 2026
2814 - Black bears are moving into the neighborhood. How do we coexist?

Mon, 14 Sep 2026
2813 - Is a shorter course of antibiotics OK? + Genetic risk of fibromyalgia

Sat, 12 Sep 2026
2812 - Why cannabis’s health effects are so hard to study

Fri, 11 Sep 2026
2811 - Did scientists just find a dark matter particle? Maybe

Thu, 10 Sep 2026
2810 - Why physics and philosophy need each other

Wed, 9 Sep 2026
2809 - Recall rodeo: A food safety update + Why cars are catching fire

Tue, 8 Sep 2026
2808 - Is there science behind the ‘nervous system reset’?

Mon, 7 Sep 2026
2807 - For Jennifer Chayes, math is a 'native tongue'

Fri, 4 Sep 2026
2806 - What an mRNA melanoma vaccine may mean for cancer treatment

Thu, 3 Sep 2026

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