Science Friday presents Science Diction!

A famous “debunking” didn’t go exactly as the textbooks say.

The great minds of 19th century physics all believed in the “luminiferous ether.” How did they get it so wrong?

A broken jawbone inspired one of the most blood-spattered theories in all of paleontology: Man was born to kill.

In the 1970s and 1980s, feminism and science are forced to contend with each other, and an evolutionary biologist finds her birds aren't playing by the sex rules.

A French peasant woman disguises herself as a man and makes botanical history.

Before we loved cats, we hated them. A listener asks how it all turned around.

In this Undiscovered Cares Report, Annie and Elah dig into a scary science headline.

A mathematician takes the stand in a court case that could decide the fate of gerrymandering in the U.S.