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
Electric Planes Take Off
Genetics, Votes, and Colin Firth
How Does Google Maps Do It?
How Cool Tech is Saving the Whales
How the Webb Telescope Sees Back in Time
Inside Elon Musk's Brain
Screaming Babies, Noise Canceling, and You
The Pulse-Pounding Origin Story of USB-C
CeCe Moore Cracks Cold Cases with Genealogy
What if Placebos ARE the Medicine?
The Man Who Invented QR Codes
Inside the Lost Titanic Sub: An Update
How Doug Lindsay Invented His Own Surgery
The Power of an Empty Metal Box
From Klingon to Dothraki: Constructed Languages for Hollywood
The Million-Dollar Toothpaste Tube
Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button from Hidden Brain
The Rewilded Farm
NASA Redirects an Asteroid
How They Found the Shipwreck Endurance
Deepfakes: Big Tech Fights Back
The Mars Helicopter That Would Not Die
ChatGPT and the End of Writing
Introducing: Season 2 of Unsung Science with David Pogue
Back to Titanic Part 2
Back to Titanic Part 1
The Secret of Baby Carrots
How Impossible Meats Might Save the Earth
The Man Who Stopped the Spammers
Where Emoji Come From
How the Fitbit Knows You're Dreaming
Subtitles for the Blind
Chainsaws, Women, and the Cape Town Drought
How to Prepare for Wildfires
Where to Live in the Climate-Change Era
Leap Seconds, Smear Seconds, and the Slowing of the Earth
How the Cellphone was Born: Three Months of Craziness
How Apple and Microsoft Built the Seeing-Eye Phone
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?