For the past week, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York has been home to an unusual sight — performances of a Haydn opera about the moon.
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SciFri Radio:In 2010, A Space Opera
This week, NASA announced that Spirit, one of the twin Mars Exploration Rovers, appears to be permanently stuck in Martian soil, and that the rover would now be used only as a stationary observation platform.
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SciFri Radio:Mars Rover to Rove No Longer
New research tackles the question of how one species of aquatic microorganism has managed to survive without the benefit of sexual reproduction for millions of years.
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SciFri Radio:Rotifers, Reproduction, and the Red Queen
New research tackles the question of how one species of aquatic microorganism has managed to survive without the benefit of sexual reproduction for millions of years.
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SciFri Radio:Rotifers, Reproduction, and the Red Queen
Braddock Bay, on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, is a prime pit stop for migrating birds. In a converted hot dog stand near the Bay, ornithologists and volunteers capture, study and release about 10,000 migrants a year. David Bonter, ornithologist at Cornell Lab of Ornithology and vice president of Braddock Bay Bird Observatory, explains what can be learned from the songbirds.
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SciFri Video:Bird In Hand To Save Those In The Bush
A series of journal articles published this week draw a new picture of our solar system’s heliosphere, the bubble carved out in the interstellar medium by the solar wind.
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SciFri Radio:Surveying the Heliosphere
David Bonter, ornithologist at Cornell University and vice president of the Braddock Bay Bird Observatory, took us to Braddock Bay to learn how to band birds.
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SciFri Video:Bird Banders
We’ll check in with researchers on the Stardust probe, which captured dust from comet Wild-2 in 2004.
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SciFri Radio:Studying Comet Contents
Science Friday brings you a highlight reel of science news from the week, including: sea worms that drop bioluminescent bombs, how deepwater rice avoids drowning and what happens when bacteria and fruit fly immune cells meet.
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SciFri Video:Sea Worms, Rice Snorkels, Cell Battles
No guesswork is allowed in museum art: scientists review everything from the color and texture of the tree bark to the facial expression of the animals in dioramas. Go behind the scenes at the American Museum of Natural History with artist Steve Quinn to see what is involved in creating an exhibition.
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SciFri Video:Museum Artists Keep It Real
