How NASA's $2 Billion Rover Landed Itself on Mars: "Seven Minutes of Terror"
Perseverance, NASA's latest Mars rover, is a one-ton, $2 billion marvel. The plan was for it to enter the Mars atmosphere going 12,000 miles an hour. The problem: How do you slow it down enough to set...
12 Nov 202143min
Tornado Alley is Shifting Eastward—and We're Not Ready
Tornadoes are nasty and dangerous. They appear and disappear so fast, there’s usually no time for evacuation—and the United States gets 75% of all the world’s tornadoes, about 1,300 of them a year. Th...
5 Nov 202134min
Audio Deepfakes and the End of Trust
The media is plenty freaked out about “deepfakes”: Computer-generated videos of famous people saying things they never actually said. But only the video is faked; the audio parts, the voices of those ...
29 Okt 202145min
How We Almost Blew the Vaccine
It may seem as though we got the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines incredibly quickly. But Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó had been trying to make mRNA vaccines work for 30 years while fighting sc...
22 Okt 202141min
What Happened to the Mosquitoes in Fresno?
Mosquitoes are the deadliest creatures on earth; they kill 500,000 people a year—and as the planet warms, more species are spreading North from the tropics. In 2013, a nasty new type, called Aedes Aeg...
15 Okt 202138min
Introducing: Unsung Science with David Pogue
The untold stories of mind-blowing achievements in science and tech. Host David Pogue takes you behind the scenes into the worlds of the people who’ve built the best in transportation, entertainment, ...
27 Sep 20213min
