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Unsung Science

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.

Grand Finale: A Pop Song is Born

52 mins; December 08, 2023

Electric Planes Take Off

40 mins; November 24, 2023

Genetics, Votes, and Colin Firth

41 mins; November 10, 2023

How Does Google Maps Do It?

32 mins; October 26, 2023

How Cool Tech is Saving the Whales

40 mins; October 13, 2023

How the Webb Telescope Sees Back in Time

43 mins; September 29, 2023

Inside Elon Musk's Brain

39 mins; September 16, 2023

Screaming Babies, Noise Canceling, and You

41 mins; September 01, 2023

Wondery Presents: Over My Dead Body: Gone Hunting

5 mins; August 21, 2023

The Pulse-Pounding Origin Story of USB-C

44 mins; August 18, 2023

CeCe Moore Cracks Cold Cases with Genealogy

43 mins; August 04, 2023

What if Placebos ARE the Medicine?

34 mins; July 21, 2023

The Man Who Invented QR Codes

37 mins; July 07, 2023

Inside the Lost Titanic Sub: An Update

46 mins; June 23, 2023

How Doug Lindsay Invented His Own Surgery

41 mins; June 09, 2023

The Power of an Empty Metal Box

39 mins; May 26, 2023

From Klingon to Dothraki: Constructed Languages for Hollywood

39 mins; May 12, 2023

The Million-Dollar Toothpaste Tube

41 mins; April 28, 2023

Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button from Hidden Brain

56 mins; April 14, 2023

The Rewilded Farm

37 mins; March 31, 2023

NASA Redirects an Asteroid

35 mins; March 17, 2023

How They Found the Shipwreck Endurance

43 mins; March 03, 2023

Deepfakes: Big Tech Fights Back

31 mins; February 17, 2023

The Mars Helicopter That Would Not Die

50 mins; February 03, 2023

ChatGPT and the End of Writing

35 mins; January 20, 2023

Introducing: Season 2 of Unsung Science with David Pogue

4 mins; January 13, 2023

Back to Titanic Part 2

38 mins; December 19, 2022

Back to Titanic Part 1

40 mins; November 27, 2022

The Secret of Baby Carrots

30 mins; November 20, 2022

From Revisionist History: The Triplicate Program and Opioid Epidemic

12 mins; July 28, 2022

Conversation with a Computer from What’s Your Problem

11 mins; April 07, 2022

How Impossible Meats Might Save the Earth

40 mins; February 10, 2022

The Man Who Stopped the Spammers

32 mins; February 03, 2022

Where Emoji Come From

36 mins; January 27, 2022

How the Fitbit Knows You're Dreaming

36 mins; January 20, 2022

Subtitles for the Blind

52 mins; January 13, 2022

Chainsaws, Women, and the Cape Town Drought

40 mins; January 06, 2022

How to Prepare for Wildfires

59 mins; December 30, 2021

Where to Live in the Climate-Change Era

60 hours 12 mins; December 23, 2021

Leap Seconds, Smear Seconds, and the Slowing of the Earth

39 mins; December 16, 2021

How the Cellphone was Born: Three Months of Craziness

37 mins; December 09, 2021

How Apple and Microsoft Built the Seeing-Eye Phone

49 mins; December 02, 2021

How to Prepare for Climate Change: Intro

7 mins; November 25, 2021

Who Makes the Fake Languages for Hollywood?

39 mins; November 18, 2021

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

43 mins; November 11, 2021

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

34 mins; November 04, 2021

Audio Deepfakes and the End of Trust

45 mins; October 28, 2021

How We Almost Blew the Vaccine

41 mins; October 21, 2021

What Happened to the Mosquitoes in Fresno?

38 mins; October 14, 2021

Introducing: Unsung Science with David Pogue

3 mins; September 27, 2021

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