Science Friday

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22 October 2026 02:49

Science Friday is a 2026 Signal Awards winner! 🏆 We are so proud to have won the Listener’s Choice Award in the science genre. Thank you to everyone who has listened to our show and voted for us. Your support means everything! https://www.signalaward.com/winners/?season=2026&type=1979

Nobel Prize

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21 October 2026 03:46

Today on World CRISPR Day, we would like to highlight our laureates, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier. They were awarded the chemistry prize 2020 for their breakthrough in genome editing through CRISPR/Cas9. Watch this interview to see how it has evolved since then: https://bit.ly/3U5DTNQ

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13 October 2026 12:34

Take a look at this 114-year-old correspondence between literature laureates Bertrand Russell and Rabindranath Tagore on this day in 1912. Tagore tells Russell he recently finished Russell's article 'The Essence of Religion'. Tagore writes that the article reminded him of a verse in the Upanishads.

Nobel Prize

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06 October 2026 13:16

Say hello to our 2026 physics laureate Francis Halzen! Halzen sent us a snapshot from his hotel room in Italy - join us in congratulating our new Nobel Prize laureate.