Why ask, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" when you can instead consider, "Why did the road cross the land?" ...

As highways have become almost ubiquitous in the US, motorists travel faster and farther—resulting in more traffic.

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A pair of musicians wrote a concept album inspired by moths—and found that humans have more in common with the insects than ...

Emma Lee Gometz is Science Friday’s Digital Producer of Engagement. She’s a writer and illustrator who loves drawing primates and tending to her coping mechanisms like G-d to the garden of Eden. A new ...

Did you know that there are ten quintillion—or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000—individual insects on the planet? That means that for each and every one of us humans, there are 1.25 billion insects hopping, ...

Here at Science Friday, we’re big fans of metaphors. They can make complicated scientific concepts easier to understand, for both non-experts and scientists themselves. For example, “the big bang” ...

Learn the secrets to good soil and what helps plants grow. Then use science and math to analyze dirt and develop your own custom blend. What does it take to be a super athlete? Take a close-up look at ...

Throughout history, humans have given a lot of thought to death. We’ve grappled with our mortality, created elaborate burial rituals, and contemplated how best to mourn the loss of a loved one. But ...

The State of Science is a collaboration with public radio reporters and local media, featuring local science stories of national significance. This is great news for the nearly-extinct monarch ...

The existence of sea serpents and Bigfoot might never be proved. But a cryptozoologist explains why understanding their appeal is still important. While you dressed up as a witch or zombie this ...

Leading up to the November election, Science Friday is covering top science issues on the ballot. For voters, those top issues include abortion. Since the Dobbs ruling overturned Roe v. Wade in June ...