Episodes
Charles Scalfini, the CTO of Panoramic Software, makes the case for why programmers should make the leap to functional programming, which promises more maintainable code, and eliminates some of the problems inherent to conventional languages. 
Published 03/29/23
Nick Brown, vice-president of product at Truepic, describes how the company's technology and standards developed by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity is fighting fakes and other forms of image tampering, by securing data from the camera lens to the users' screens. 
Published 02/14/23
Chad Bouton of the Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine at Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and his electrophysiological research into decoding and recoding the signals used by nerves. The goal is to bypass damage and restore some feeling and movement for patients with paralytic injuries.
Published 01/24/23
Microsoft Research's Philipp Witte is working on making it safer and cheaper to keep warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Published 01/10/23
The prosthetics industry is too focused on high-tech limbs that are complicated, costly, and often impractical. Britt S. Young discusses her report into how the real needs of disabled people are often obscured.
Published 12/06/22
Rising temperatures are driving the push for a radical and controversial technology
Published 11/01/22
Epidemiologist Dr. Lee Harrison uses electronic medical records and whole-genome sequencing to track down runaway hospital infections
Published 12/21/21
Vyasa's Christopher Bouton wants to cure data problems—and some diseases
Published 11/09/21
Automotive reporter John Voelcker explains why getting EVs charged is easier than you think
Published 10/26/21
Tech historian James Cortada charts the company’s many rises and falls—past, present, and future
Published 08/11/21
Sentiment analysis, which can already identify anger, joy, fear, sadness, and confidence, can now spot sarcasm as well
Published 07/01/21
A startup, led by a 25-year-old chemical engineer, is leading the way
Published 06/21/21
…. and float them out to sea. What could go wrong?
Published 06/11/21
A data-science startup is helping oil and gas companies—and wind farms too— reduce production losses and improve sustainability
Published 06/03/21
How Should the Law Treat AI?
Published 05/25/21
Will second-tier cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore emerge from the pandemic stronger and readier to face climate change?
Published 05/18/21
The Appalachian regions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia are rich in natural gas, and growing poorer because of it.
Published 05/11/21
Instead of being directed movement by movement, an AI-based leg prosthetic infers the wearer’s destination
Published 04/22/21
How cellphones will soon have better battery life, higher data rates, and replace broadband for millions of people
Published 04/15/21
A new book analyzes the seven grand transitions—population agricultural practices, energy sources and conversion, industrialization and the rise of services, trade, wealth distribution, and the environment—that have formed the modern world
Published 04/08/21
Can nation-states defend themselves from hackers and one another?
Published 03/23/21
A mathematician uses statistical science to prove gerrymandering, and courts are sometimes convinced
Published 03/11/21
A startup founded by two economists thinks direct air capture of carbon can be made cost-effective
Published 02/19/21
The energy economy is changing faster than ever. Economist Kathy Hipple surveys the landscape
Published 02/11/21
Argonne National Lab’s new ability to look inside a battery will lead to better, lighter, quicker-charging batteries, from phones to cars
Published 01/19/21