Science Friday

This month marks 100 years since the Scopes Trial, when a teacher was accused of breaking Tennessee law by teaching evolution. “The great thing about the past is it’s not dusty. And it’s not irrelevant,” says Brenda Wineapple, author of “Keeping the Faith," a book about the…

Across the country, insurers are dropping homeowners and pulling out of entire markets due to the growing risk of natural disasters. As climate change fuels more extreme weather, what happens to homeownership? 🏠 buff.ly/I7F8TmY

Instead of a vaccine against Lyme disease, what if we had a vaccine that staves off the actual ticks that carry it? Read how tick saliva is helping scientists make it happen. sciencefriday.com/articles/tick-…

What do cattle ranchers, entomologists, and the federal government have in common? They all have it out for this worm. Here’s how eradicating it involves dropping millions of flies out of airplanes. sciencefriday.com/segments/new-w…

Has there ever been a time when you had to balance teaching evidence-based science with curriculum standards, scientific consensus, and diverse community perspectives? Share your answer with SciFri. i1j7zijgb78.typeform.com/to/WK2wTKdC

Did you know that some people’s immune systems can learn to fight off ticks after repeated bites? This is called “acquired tick resistance.” Now, scientists are investigating this immunological phenomenon and trying to harness it to develop a vaccine against ticks.…

In roughly half of Agatha Christie's stories, the murder weapon is poison. And while, as a fiction writer, she had no obligation to be accurate, chemist-turned-author Kathryn Harkup argues that her attention to scientific accuracy makes her books stronger. 🧪…

Is it clocking to you? “Algospeak” author Adam Aleksic argues that Gen Alpha slang can teach us something about how internet algorithms influence language. buff.ly/uztPwkD

📚Calling all science book lovers! Join the SciFri Book Club, an online community to connect with fellow readers, dive into science books, and attend events like author talks. This month we’re reading “Frostbite” by @nicolatwilley. sciencefriday.com/scifri-book-cl…

This July marks the 100-year anniversary of the Scopes Trial. #STEM educators we want to know how its legacy affects teaching today. Share your thoughts with @scifri. i1j7zijgb78.typeform.com/to/WK2wTKdC

🪰 Why are scientists rearing millions of the New World screwworms, a pest that lays eggs in animal wounds and eats them from the inside out? To get rid of them. (It’s worked before.) sciencefriday.com/segments/new-w…

This science can carry a tune! 🎶 Discover all the mouth mechanisms that make whistling possible (whether you’re human or… a rodent). sciencefriday.com/segments/how-d…

PTSD has been treated pretty much the same way for about 40 years. Now, a controversial treatment offers a painless route to ridding veterans of their trauma responses. sciencefriday.com/segments/paine…

A giant nose and leg cannons, oh my! Biologist Shana Goffredi (@Symbioxys) shares what makes methane-powered, deep sea spiders so endearing: buff.ly/wqCSbIl

☠️ Poison, she wrote: Discover the role that science plays in Agatha Christie’s best-selling mysteries, and why she knows a thing or two about her weapon of choice. sciencefriday.com/segments/agath…

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Researcher Katie Edwards studies interpersonal violence. Here's why, after losing millions of dollars in grant money, she's taking the fight to court: buff.ly/WFNVeMp

🦣 "They've got rizz, as the kids like to say." A paleontologist weighs in on a mammoth moment in sports—and shares why his local mascot should be the Gainesville Gomphothere: buff.ly/APC55gt 📷 : The newly minted Moon Mammoth mascot, Erie SeaWolves

Author Brenda Wineapple weighs in on the continued relevance of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, a century after a teacher went on trial for teaching evolution: buff.ly/lssauh6

People in the late 90s had one. Dogs have one. Here’s why we don’t have a Lyme disease vaccine today—and why that’s concerning during one of the worst tick years yet. sciencefriday.com/segments/lyme-…