Amy Nordrum - Science Friday

11:18

How Do You Solve The Problem Of Vaccine Distribution?

Questions swirl around how to prioritize who gets the first COVID-19 vaccines. Plus, an update on Space X’s Starlink satellite constellation.

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11:16

Three Missions To Mars

The United Arab Emirates, China and the U.S. are all launching missions to Mars this month.

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12:01

Research For Masks That Deactivate Coronavirus Receive NSF Funding

Plus, understanding false negative results in COVID-19 tests and the sounds of elusive narwhals, captured on tape.

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12:07

Big Data’s Latest On Tracking The Spread of COVID-19

Are you following stay-at-home orders? In some countries, the government will use cell phone data to make sure.

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7:15

A Close Call Collision In Near-Earth Orbit

Plus news about crab heath, graphene, and more in this week’s News Roundup.

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7:33

Underwater Soundtrack Hooks Fish

Scientists lured marine life back to degraded coral reefs by putting on a soundtrack of the clicks and pops of a healthy reef.

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7:05

Egypt Is Building A Massive 1.8-Gigawatt Solar Park

The $4 billion Benban Solar Park will be the country’s first utility-scale solar power plant.

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33:44

Where There’s Thunder, There’s Lightning Science

How researchers probe the mysteries of electricity in the atmosphere, one lightning storm at a time.

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7:35

Under The Sea: Future Factories And A New Volcano

It was a big news week under the sea.

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7:23

SpaceX And A Dummy ‘Crew’ Visit The International Space Station

The first commercial vehicle designed to carry a crew visits the ISS.