SciFri Radio: Science Policy and Funding

SciFri Radio: About a Mountain
Ira talks with author John D'Agata about his book about the late Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility.

SciFri Radio: Nuclear Technologies
From small-scale nuclear power plants to advanced reactor designs, what's next for the technology of nuclear power?

SciFri Radio: Science and the Budget
This week, President Obama unveiled his proposed budget for 2011. We'll talk about how the proposed budget might affect science.

SciFri Radio: Tracking Near-Earth Objects
The US spends $4 million each year to search for comets or asteroids that could threaten the planet. That's not enough to get the job done,...

SciFri Radio: Texting Aid Dollars
Much of the financial support for earthquake-stricken Haiti has a high-tech source -- the text message.

SciFri Radio: Adjusting the Doomsday Clock
Thursday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists adjusted the minute hand of its Doomsday Clock, a measure of the world's vulnerability to...

SciFri Radio: Inside DARPA
We'll take a look behind the curtain at DARPA, the mysterious Department of Defense research arm.

SciFri Radio: Weekends at Bellevue
Have you ever wondered what the weekend shift might be like in a major city's psychiatric emergency room?

SciFri Radio: Gene Patenting
A case currently in federal court questions whether it should be possible to patent genetic sequences.

SciFri Radio: Carbon, Climate, Copenhagen
We'll talk about the climate talks in Copenhagen, the EPA decision to regulate greenhouse gases as pollutants, and more.

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