Ira Flatow

Science Friday host

Ira Flatow is the host and executive producer of Science Friday.

Veteran NPR science correspondent and award-winning TV journalist Ira Flatow is the host of the Science Friday radio show, a weekly call-in program that engages listeners and scientists in lively conversations about science. Ira has discussed cutting-edge science stories on a range of programs, including the four-part PBS series, Big Ideas. For six years Flatow was host and writer for the Emmy award-winning Newton's Apple on PBS, and he has been a science reporter for CBS, Westinghouse, and CNBC.In his 35-year career, Ira has talked science on the Today Show, Charlie Rose, Merv Griffin and Oprah. He’s also the author of numerous books, most recently, Present at the Future. His recent honors include the National Science Board Public Service Award (2005), AAAS Journalism Award (2000), the Carl Sagan Award (1999), and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest (2010). More recently, Ira was named as the winner of the 2012 Isaac Asimov Science Award and has also received an honorary doctorate from Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College.


Girl reading a book under a tree

The best science fiction books for your summer reading list

Books

Summer is the perfect time to catch up on your reading — maybe while you’re lounging on the beach or waiting in those long TSA lines. PRI’s Science Friday has suggestions for great summer science fiction books to help you escape — and maybe even get you thinking.

The marquee at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York, where "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" is playing.

How to play an autistic math whiz — for an audience of autistic kids

Arts
The Audi Prologue concept car

Driverless cars are all the rage, but are they really all they’re cracked up to be?

Business

Driverless Car: Good Idea or Bad Idea?

Wind farm

What the GOP Congress might mean for climate change

Environment

Green Politics

In the aftermath of the Republican capture of Congress, several events bear watching, especially as eyes turn toward 2016 and the presidential and senatorial races. To start off, there is the elevation of the Senate’s chief climate change denier, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who's preparing to chair (for the second time) the committee that deals […]

Sea, Temperature, CO2 Levels All Rise in 2013

Not surprisingly, greenhouse gas and sea levels rose in 2013, and warm temperature trends continued, according to the State of the Climate report released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  “These findings reinforce what scientists for decades have observed: that our planet is becoming a warmer place,” NOAA administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan said in […]