Science Friday

Climate leader Ayana Elizabeth Johnson reflects on this moment of the climate movement and why climate action should be fun.

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on making climate action cool

"Whalefall" is a race against time, and sperm whale digestion. We get into the gooey gut science and what it took to bring it to the big screen.

Could a whale swallow a human, 'Whalefall' style?

A linguist weighs in on how "politician speak" has changed over the past century, and what it says about what we want from our leaders.

Why do politicians talk like that?

A free-floating seaweed called sargassum is exploding in the Atlantic ocean, clogging up coastlines from West Africa to the Caribbean.

Sargassum superblooms are choking coastlines around the Atlantic

For Ada Lovelace Day, our 2018 story about the women who made the internet, with the author of "Broad Band" and the founder of EchoNYC.

Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and the women who made the internet

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