Brain Scans....Goldilocks planets....Ira Flatow previews...all coming up this week on Science Friday...6/28/2013

We stopped in at Columbia University for a quick fMRI.

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Science Friday attended the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and had a conversation with Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia, the directors of the feature documentary film, "Web Junkie." Their film follows several teenage boys in a Chinese "Internet addiction" rehabilitation camp.
"Web Junkie" directed by Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia.
All footage from Web Junkie © Dogwoof Global.
Produced by Annie Minoff
Interview filmed by Manjula Varghese
Edited by Luke Groskin

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Choreographer Elizabeth Streb pushes the boundaries of Newtonian physics—with dance. In her show Forces, dancers fly, fall, and collide in mid-air. No wonder the "action architect" has her share of scientist fans, among them, big-thinking particle physicist Lisa Randall.

In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick pieced together the structure of DNA — the now-famous double helix. To celebrate the release of a new annotated and illustrated edition of his 1968 book, The Double Helix, James Watson reflects on the groundbreaking discovery. Broadcast Nov. 16, 2012.

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Science Friday investigates the secret life of cheese. We visited Hendricks Farms and Dairy in Telford, PA--home to award-winning cheese-maker Trent Hendricks. He walks us through how he makes a hybrid cheese he calls cheddar blue.

Bats across the northeastern United States are dying and no one knows why. Visit an abandoned mine in upstate New York, with several bat researchers looking for clues.

An elephant shrew is neither an elephant nor a shrew and has a manatee for a close relative. It's more like a mix between a miniature antelope and anteater. Researchers recently discovered a new species of elephant-shrew in Tanzania

Spring is here and the birds are migrating. We went birding with Glenn Phillips, executive director of New York City Audubon, to learn some birding basics in preparation for the spring bird migration. Turf wars, death, joy--all in a day of birding.

This is how live radio looks! Watch Ira Flatow talk to scientist turned playwright Carl Djerassi, actor Simon Jones and chemist Alfred Vendl talk about Djerassi's new play Phallacy.

The Greater sage-grouse makes its living in sagebrush habitats across the western U.S. and Canada. Every year from late February to May, male sage-grouse perform a striking dance routine each morning at dawn. Jason Robinson, upland game coordinator for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, breaks down the dance and describes challenges the birds face in Utah.

Researchers are on a quest to find the lake trout that remain in Lake Michigan.

Scientists engineered a butterfly with glow in the dark eyes. The purpose is to figure out how butterfly eyespots develop.

Can you predict which song is going to be a hit? The answer may be yes.

An audio slideshow of “Malamp Reliquaries”, featuring artist and biologist Brandon Ballengée's haunting memorials of frog deformity.
Produced by Annie Minoff
Edited by Luke Groskin
Photos by Brandon Ballengée

Science Friday spreads Pi Day cheer on the streets of New York. Meet the Pi enthusiasts lingering outside of New York University's math department.

From 2011: Using the Swedish Solar Telescope, a ground-based observatory, Goran Scharmer and colleagues probe the penumbra--that's the stringy structure around the perimeter of the dark part of the sunspot. The images give scientists new insight into how that structure forms.

When two pendulums are attached to each other, their motion is impossible to predict. This swinging pendulum demonstration is brought to you by Science Friday

Behold lighting bugs of a different color! SciFri listener Chris Lavin stumbled upon fluorescing blue millipedes during an evening stroll near her home in Canyon, California and sent along video documentation. Glowing-millipede specialist Paul Marek, an entomologist at the University of Arizona, identified the millipedes, and explained what's known about their mysterious glow.

Winter weather means more than sledding and snowmen. Next snowstorm, grab a magnifying glass and try snowflake hunting. Bullet rosettes, stellar plates and capped columns are just a few of the varieties of snow crystal you can find in your backyard. Kenneth Libbrecht, physicist at Caltech and snowflake expert, shares secrets of the snowflake.