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Jan 3, 2025 · Credit: Image collage made with Shutterstock, Canva, and Business Wire. Each year, the journalists at the MIT Technology Review publish a list of 10 breakthrough technologies: these are things poised to hit a tipping point, and potentially change the way the world works.. Unsurprisingly, artificial intelligence remains a big breakthrough.

Dec 20, 2024 · IRA FLATOW: This is Science Friday. I’m Ira Flatow. The science-fiction film Interstellar turns 10 years old this month. Hard to believe. For many of us, it was our first encounter with some pretty advanced astrophysics, taking sci-fi concepts like wormholes and time warping and backing them up with actual science.

Nov 15, 2024 · Medical historian Dr. Elsa Richardson discusses the changing cultural and scientific understandings of the gut. Plus, a “one-of-a-kind” fossil helps fill a giant gap in scientists’ understanding of how bird brains evolved. And, walking pneumonia typically affects school-age kids, but the CDC reports a rise in cases in children aged 2-4.

Feb 9, 2024 · Credit: Shutterstock and photo artwork by Emma Gometz As frivolous as it may sound, the use of trash talk has a long, hilarious history that dates back to the Bible and the Homeric poems. Fundamentally, this insult-slinging is the presentation of a challenge, and it’s found its way into sports, politics, and even cutthroat family board game nights.

Oct 21, 2022 · Every planet in the solar system is affected by multiple forces. The gravity of the Sun pulls planets toward the center of the solar system. The inertia from the creation of the planets sent them flying in a straight line, perpendicular to the force of the Sun’s gravity. When these forces combine, they result in centripetal forces that push our planets in their circular motion around the Sun.

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Nov 8, 2024 · Image made with elements from Canva. Today, November 8, 2024, marks Science Friday’s 33rd broadcast anniversary. One of the most beloved interviewees on Science Friday over the years was the late neurologist and author Dr. Oliver Sacks, who shared his insights into neuroscience, art, and what it means to be human.

Jun 14, 2024 · Ray Kurzweil. Credit: Weinberg-Clark Photography. In 2005, futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil popularized the term “the singularity” to capture the idea that man and machine will merge as the next stage of evolution.