How does music affect the brain? Join Ira in this segment for a conversation with neurologist and author Oliver Sacks about the brain and music.

Dr. Jesse Miller is lead botanist at the Washington Natural Heritage Program in Portland, Oregon. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of ...

Dr. Janet Ng is a wildlife biologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada in Regina, Canada. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of ...

Two SciFri producers discuss the year’s most intriguing stories, from new weight-loss drugs to PFAS chemicals to the ...

Ira is joined on stage by researchers from three different fields to reflect on all that 2024 brought us in the world of ...

Over the past 60 years or so of space exploration, humans have left some things behind: bits of satellites, moon buggies, Mars rovers, even human excrement. It’s all part of the countless bits of ...

Over the past few years many words have been written about an invasive insect known casually as the “murder hornet”—more formally, the Asian giant hornet, or northern giant hornet. But this week, the ...

A members of the Forest Service Legislative Affairs Office and the Baltimore City Recreation & Parks (left) talk about Camp Small operations over some freshly milled lumber. Credit: Nina Dietz While ...

It’s been all over the news the last few weeks: a slew of drone sightings in New Jersey and elsewhere on the East Coast, starting in mid-November. Federal authorities and President Biden have said ...

On December 24, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make the closest-ever approach to the sun by a spacecraft. Parker has made more than 20 close approaches to the sun before, but this one will swoop in ...