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Science Friday is your trusted source for news about science, technology, health and the environment. Now in it's 26th year, Science Friday is at first a radio program, broadcast by PRI live over public radio stations nationwide from 2-4 p.m. Eastern time and anchored by award winning journalist Ira Flatow. We also create entertaining science videos and web content. Both audio and video are available on Adroid and Apple iOS smart phones and tablets. Science, health, technology stories in the news are our focus and we bring an educated, balanced and lively discussion. Expert guests join Science Friday's host to discuss to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.
Science Friday is also involved in social media, keeping the conversation going all week in Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and on our home page. And you can take us along for the ride via our portable apps for iOS and Android.
Science Friday is also involved in social media, keeping the conversation going all week in Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and on our home page. And you can take us along for the ride via our portable apps for iOS and Android.
Overview
Location
United States, New York
Employees
11-50
Founded date
1987
Mentions in press and media 30
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| Mar 17, 2025 | Health | Scientists say NIH officials told them to scrub mRNA references on grants | Scientists relayed their experiences on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional retaliation by the Trump administration. A senior official at the National Cancer Institute confirmed that NIH acting Director Matthew Memoli sent a... |
| Dec 27, 2023 | A bizarre galaxy NASA spotted at the edge of the universe could upend what we know about supermassive black holes | Science A bizarre galaxy NASA spotted at the edge of the universe could upend what we know about supermassive black holes Marianne Guenot 2023-12-27T12:21:32Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The letter F. Face... |
| Aug 2, 2023 | Best Day Ever: Portland's spider woman Greta Binford | Greta Binford's superpower is spiders. The Lewis & Clark College biology professor has two spider species named for her, the Nesticus binfordae and the Austrarchaea binfordae, and she's currently documenting a new one she found in the C... |
| Jul 5, 2023 | How Americans are feeling about abortion | We've just passed the one year mark of the U.S. living in a post-Roe world, and 69% of Americans say abortion should be generally legal in the first three months of pregnancy, a record high according to Gallup. Plus, how climate change is a... |
| May 24, 2023 | TikToker finds alien-looking shark egg with a tiny, moving embryo inside at the beach | The egg's corkscrew shape allows it to wedge into a rock or sandy surface so that the embryo can remain safe until hatching. California.Shelling Tiktok/Paul Bersebach/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images Redeem now A ... |
| Mar 30, 2023 | A company made volleyball-sized meatballs with mammoth DNA, but no one tasted them because humans could be allergic to the 5,000-year-old protein | A meatball made from flesh cultivated using the DNA of an extinct woolly mammoth is presented at NEMO Science Museum created by a cultured meat company, in Amsterdam, Netherlands March 28, 2023. PIROSCHKA VAN DE WOUW/AMSTERDAM/Reuters Redee... |
| Mar 19, 2023 | Time arises from motion along fourth space dimension, and hence time is real, not an illusion | Einstien did not defeat time. It was the other way round. Correct representation of negative and imaginary mumbers Universe is Expanding like a (Hyper) Balloon Human civilization has finally reached the stage to ask “What is time?” and unra... |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Commentary Commentary | Guest opinion: Emma Galofré García: In addition to limiting pollution, we must uplift communities at the frontlines of climate change | By Emma Galofré García I was primed by environmentalism in my professional and personal life through my studies in marine science and experience working in wildlife ecology and conservation. Despite all my studies, I still can’t understand ... |
| Jan 17, 2023 | A leaked Google memo compared it to slime mold | Hiya, I'm deputy editor Jake Swearingen, on my last day filling in for Diamond Naga Siu. You've been a wonderful audience; please tip your email server. It's like the start of a joke: What do Google and slime mold have in common? A lot, say... |
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FAQ about Science Friday
When was Science Friday founded?
Science Friday was founded in 1987.
What has the press written about Science Friday?
Parsers VC has collected 30 articles mentioning Science Friday, among them “Health | Scientists say NIH officials told them to scrub mRNA references on grants” (Mar 17, 2025) and “A bizarre galaxy NASA spotted at the edge of the universe could upend what we know about supermassive black holes” (Dec 27, 2023).
Is Science Friday still active?
Yes, Science Friday is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 7, 2025.