Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow space is becoming a trillion-dollar marketplace
The future of space is privatized. Exploring the solar system is now not just the preserve of government agencies—private companies are finding it’s…
5 months, 1 week ago
Vaccines have all but erased the memory of diseases like rubella, but not for one mother
Vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. is pushing immunization rates down, fueling a rise in illnesses like measles and whooping cough. Devastating infectiou…
5 months, 1 week ago
Trump vents online about service provider after conference call marred by glitch
On June 30, the president of the United States was just another person complaining online about his service provider. Donald Trump wrote in a pair o…
5 months, 1 week ago
Morocco bets on video game industry to provide jobs and diversify economy
Morocco is laying down foundations to build a homegrown gaming industry by establishing a developer hub in the capital, training coders and launching…
5 months, 1 week ago
A classical drive: Road rumble strips play Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in UAE emirate of Fujairah
The humble road rumble strip, used around the world to alert drifting drivers to potential hazards or lane departures, can play Beethoven on a mounta…
5 months, 1 week ago
Inside Three Mile Island’s nuclear restart with Microsoft, now targeting 2027 launch, one year ahead of plan
The operators of the last operating nuclear power reactor at Three Mile Island say they will re-open it, now a year ahead of schedule, in 2027, inste…
5 months, 1 week ago
Sweden’s ‘Banksy Mouse,’ Anonymouse, unmasked after 9 years in the shadows
After nine years scurrying in the shadows, the two-person Swedish street art collective known as “Anonymouse”—dubbed “Banksy Mouse” by Swedish media—…
5 months, 1 week ago
Greenland’s message to the world: Come visit
Greenland’s tourism industry is expecting a boom this year following the launch of its first airline route between its capital, Nuuk, and the U.S. T…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
How ChatGPT and other AI tools are changing the teaching profession
For her sixth-grade honors class, math teacher Ana Sepúlveda wanted to make geometry fun. She figured her students, "who live and breathe soccer," wo…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Young leaders advancing potential climate solutions could win $1 million grants
Youth-led climate groups are getting a $25 million injection from a philanthropic collaborative that hopes other funders will follow their lead in su…
5 months, 2 weeks ago