Unsung Science

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Hear the untold stories of mind-blowing achievements in science and tech. “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent and six-time Emmy winner David Pogue takes you behind the scenes into the creation stories of the world’s greatest advances and the people behind them. From transportation, food, space, internet, and health, creators reveal their inspirations and roadblocks they encountered in bringing their breakthroughs to the public. Hear all-new episodes of the award-winning Unsung Science podcast every other Friday.

  1. Grand Finale: A Pop Song is Born

    08/12/2023

    Grand Finale: A Pop Song is Born

    In the days of old, creating a song required a composer, a lyricist, an arranger, a recording engineer, a band or orchestra. Today, in the pop world, a single person often handles those jobs in a single studio. In this extraordinary episode, you’ll hear two-time Grammy winner Oak Felder create a new song, in real time, start to finish—and you’ll gain incredible insight into how technology and talent team up to produce art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    52 min
  2. Electric Planes Take Off

    24/11/2023

    Electric Planes Take Off

    Planes contribute 9% of the world’s carbon pollution, but electrifying them has always seemed impossible; batteries have never been powerful or light enough to carry themselves. But in 2023, batteries reached a tipping point in power and weight. Beta Technologies, based in Vermont, is flying its six-passenger vertical-takeoff airplanes every day. David Pogue was there at takeoff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    40 min
  3. Genetics, Votes, and Colin Firth

    10/11/2023

    Genetics, Votes, and Colin Firth

    The U.S. has fallen into polarized, partisan, political bickering. Online, liberals and conservatives seem to despise each other. But nobody seems to stop to ask: How did we get our liberal and conservative views in the first place? We formed our opinions by carefully weighing the issues and thoughtfully choosing a stance, right? Well, no; turns out over half of our political leanings are determined, incredibly, by our genes. In this episode: How we figured that out, and what it means for our future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    41 min
  4. How Does Google Maps Do It?

    26/10/2023

    How Does Google Maps Do It?

    Every month, over a billion people open their phones and fire up Google Maps. Its original function—offering driving directions, with real-time traffic tracking—was disruptive enough in 2008, when most people had to pay $10 a month for traffic data. But since that time, it’s become a global business directory, a transit timetable, crowdedness monitor, a Street View miracle—and now, in its newest release, an augmented-reality viewer of the cityscape around you. The question is: How is Google doing it, and why is it free? Meet the man who runs Google’s entire Geo division. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    33 min
  5. How Cool Tech is Saving the Whales

    13/10/2023

    How Cool Tech is Saving the Whales

    For the most part, we don’t hunt whales anymore, but we’re still killing them—mostly by driving ships into them. One species, the North Atlantic right whale, is now extinct in most parts of the world; only 340 are left. But it may not be too late. An extraordinary coalition of nonprofits, research institutions, foundations, and even megalithic shipping corporations are teaming up to develop technology, prove the science, and, yes, save the whales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    40 min
  6. How the Webb Telescope Sees Back in Time

    29/09/2023

    How the Webb Telescope Sees Back in Time

    On Christmas Day, 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit a million miles from Earth—a huge and insanely ambitious machine, billions of dollars over budget and 14 years past deadline. Now, as the telescope completes its first year of capturing astonishing images of the universe as it was just after the Big Bang, its creators discuss why so many things went right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    43 min
  7. Inside Elon Musk's Brain

    16/09/2023

    Inside Elon Musk's Brain

    People use all kinds of words to describe Elon Musk, from “genius” to “megalomaniac,” from “visionary” to “erratic”—but now there’s less reason to call him “enigmatic,” thanks to Walter Isaacson’s new 688-page biography. Isaacson hung out with Musk for two years, attending meetings, witnessing meltdowns, taking Musk’s 3 a.m. phone calls. In this special “Unsung Science” episode, Isaacson describes the man behind Tesla,     SpaceX, Starlink, and the social-media site once known as Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    39 min
  8. Screaming Babies, Noise Canceling, and You

    01/09/2023

    Screaming Babies, Noise Canceling, and You

    In April 1978, MIT professor Amar Bose was flying home to Boston from Switzerland. But when he tried to listen to music through the airline’s headphones, he couldn’t hear a darned thing. He spent the rest of the flight doing acoustical math—and sketching out an idea for headphones that literally subtracted background noise from what you hear. Today, noise-canceling headphones are everywhere. But the revolution began with Amar Bose’s airplane sketches—and the 22-year, $50 million journey that led them to the ears on your head. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    42 min
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Hear the untold stories of mind-blowing achievements in science and tech. “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent and six-time Emmy winner David Pogue takes you behind the scenes into the creation stories of the world’s greatest advances and the people behind them. From transportation, food, space, internet, and health, creators reveal their inspirations and roadblocks they encountered in bringing their breakthroughs to the public. Hear all-new episodes of the award-winning Unsung Science podcast every other Friday.

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  • Creatore
    CBS News
  • Anni di attività
    2021 - 2023
  • Puntate
    46
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    © 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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