Unsung Science

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Hear the untold stories of mind-blowing achievements in science and tech. Host David Pogue, six-time Emmy winner and “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent, takes you behind the scenes into the worlds of the people who’ve built the best in transportation, entertainment, food, internet, and health. Creators reveal their inspirations and roadblocks they encountered in bringing their breakthroughs to the public. 

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How to Prepare for Climate ...

11.26.2021

It's Thanksgiving weekend, and for many podcasts, a week off. But we didn't want to sock you with some re-run—or, worse, leave you with no episode at all. So David Pogue is here to offer a free chapter from his ...

Unsung Science episodes:

11.26.2021 How to Prepare for Climate Change: Intro It's Thanksgiving weekend, and for many podcasts, a week off. But we didn't want to sock you with some re-run—or, worse, leave you with no episode at all. So David Pogue is here to offer a free chapter from his ...
11.19.2021 Who Makes the Fake Languages for Hollywood? The first time you heard “Star Trek” characters speak Klingon, or the “Game of Thrones” characters speaking Dothraki and High Valyrian, you might have assumed that the actors were just speaking a few words of gibberish, created by some screenwriter ...
11.12.2021 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 it down gently ...
11.05.2021 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. They occur all year ‘round, in all ...
10.29.2021 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 fake celebrities, were supplied by human impersonators. But ...
10.22.2021 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 scientific gatekeepers who thought her idea was ...
10.15.2021 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 Aegypti, arrived in Fresno, California. But traditional ...
09.27.2021 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, food, Hear the untold stories of mind-blowing achievements in ...

Unsung Science

What's Unsung Science about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Unsung Science episodes:

How to Prepare for Climate Change: Intro

Who Makes the Fake Languages for Hollywood?

How NASA's $2 Billion Rover Landed Itself on Mars: "Seven Minutes of Terror"

Tornado Alley is Shifting Eastward—and We're Not Ready

Audio Deepfakes and the End of Trust

How We Almost Blew the Vaccine

What Happened to the Mosquitoes in Fresno?

Introducing: Unsung Science with David Pogue