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Hear the untold stories of mind-blowing achievements in science and tech. “CBS Sunday Morning” corre

Episodes

Total: 47

In the days of old, creating a song required a composer, a lyricist, an arranger, a recording engine

Electric Planes Take Off

2023/11/24

Planes contribute 9% of the world’s carbon pollution, but electrifying them has always seemed imposs

The U.S. has fallen into polarized, partisan, political bickering. Online, liberals and conservative

How Does Google Maps Do It?

2023/10/26

Every month, over a billion people open their phones and fire up Google Maps. Its original function—

For the most part, we don’t hunt whales anymore, but we’re still killing them—mostly by driving ship

On Christmas Day, 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit a million miles from

Inside Elon Musk's Brain

2023/9/16

People use all kinds of words to describe Elon Musk, from “genius” to “megalomaniac,” from “visionar

In April 1978, MIT professor Amar Bose was flying home to Boston from Switzerland. But when he tried

There’s a new kind of jack in town—well, new as of 2014—called USB-C. This single, tiny connector ca

Genealogy has been around a while. So has DNA evidence. But what if you combined the two? What if yo

We’ve known about the placebo effects for over 200 years. That’s where doctors give you a pill conta

In 1994, Masahiro Hara got tired of having to scan six or seven barcodes on every box of Toyota car-

The lost OceanGate submersible has captured the world’s attention. In the summer of 2022, “CBS News

In his senior year of college, a monstrous ailment fell upon Doug Lindsay. His skin felt flayed. His

We’ve been shipping stuff across oceans for centuries. But until 1956, we loaded our ships in the du

The first time you heard “Star Trek” characters speak Klingon, or the “Game of Thrones” characters s

We’re overrun with plastic. It’s in our oceans, our water, our food. Something has to be done—prefer

Understandably, there is a lot going on in our lives, and we feel pulled in every direction. But try

The Rewilded Farm

2023/3/31

After 17 years of trying to prop up their failing farm outside of London, Charlie Burrell and Isabel

65 million years ago an asteroid struck the earth. In the ensuing planetary darkness, the dinosaurs