Have you ever wanted to ask an astronaut about what it’s really like to live and work in space? Well, now’s your chance.
Two dimensional positioning of brain cells (dots) based on their gene expression, used in a study about cortical brain cell variation between individuals. Cells are color-coded by donor. Image credit ...
The technology world moves so fast, it can be hard to know what to pay attention to. Sometimes it’s helpful for someone to tell you straight up who the big players are, and what technologies really ...
In 2018, actor, author and science communicator Alan Alda spoke publicly about his diagnosis for Parkinson’s disease. Alda, who is best known for his role in “M*A*S*H,” “The Aviator,” and “The West ...
Winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry. From left to right, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Illustration by ...
The Ig Nobel awards are a salute to achievements that, in the words of the organizers, “make people laugh, then think.” Each year, the editors of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable ...
¿Cómo llenar el vacío del radiotelescopio más potente del mundo? Cuatro años después de su colapso, comienza un nuevo ...
Here at Science Friday, we’re big fans of metaphors. They can make complicated scientific concepts easier to understand, for both non-experts and scientists themselves. For example, “the big bang” ...