I talk to Dr. Nicholas Weaver about the structural problems with Bitcoin, its historical parallels, and why now probably isn't the best time to throw your money at it.

Bitcoin Doesn't Add Up

If you get small enough, to the size of atoms and electrons, things stop making sense to our Newtonian minds. We take a look at what's next in physics. Things like desktop particle colliders and superconductors.

The Physics of Too Small to See

Just 2 years ago, the wait for automated vehicles seemed shorter than wait at the valet stand. But since then, cars that drive themselves seem to be about where they were, with a few major setbacks, and deaths. When will be freed from the menance of driving?

Self-Driving Cars Are About to Run Over Our Economy and Other Facts

At the core of the fake news epidemic is a story about new technologies and how they can upturn our world in unexpected places. It's a story about ISIS, algorithms and stock prices.

F as in Facebook and Fake News

We're not trying to rain on anyone's SuperBowl party, but we're talking about head injuries and football for the conflicted sports fan with "Diehards" author Chip Scarinzi.

Your Brain on Football

Global warming, run away capitalism, ecosystem collapse. Kim Stanley Robinson's futures aren't always happy, but they're grounded in hard science, and we might have to start thinking about them seriously for our own sake.

Kim Stanley Robinson on Fixing the Future

Ryan Ogliore studies meteorites — they fall all over the Earth, but, if you're looking, they're easiest to find in the desert and the ice caps, where they stand out. Inside, the tell us how our solar system came to be.

Meteor Strike!

It turns out NASA has a whole department dedicated to dreaming big --
 taking giant chances on sci-fi technology. Leah Hitchings talks to Ariel Waldman from NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Program.

NASA's Science Fiction Dream Lab

Quartz journalist Zoë Schlanger talks about her award-winning Newsweek article on pollution in Detroit. And Pauline Gerrard is the deputy director of a very special project in Canada's far North to monitor pollution's effects on our ecosystems.

Air Pollution and Class in America and a Canada Lakes Project

Anthony Myint, a world-class restaurateur behind Perennial in San Francisco, talks about how we choose to eat our food can actually reverse global warming.

Anthony Myint on Restaurants That Can Save the World

Berkeley Lab climate scientist Dr. Dan Feldman talks to Leah Hitchings about what is in store for the Earth's climate and the myriad of changes, like wildfires, we will have to deal with as things get warmer.

The Earth Is Getting Hotter. Now What?

Do we spend too much of our time imaging distopias and not enough time thinking about the positive changes on the horizon. Grant Burningham talks to writer, author and futurist Kevin Kelly about the positive side of progress.

Does the Future Have to Be a Bad Thing?

If you've ever scrolled to the bottom of an article to read to the comment, you know the internet can be a pretty unpleasant place. Leah Hitchings talks to Caroline Sinders about using machine learning to curb online harassment.

Using AI to Curb Online Harassment With Caroline Sinders

It seems like every object in your home is getting "smart" -- and talking to the internet. What does it mean when your home is watching you? Leah Hitchings talks to Mike Kuniavsky.

Mike Kuniavsky, Author of 'Smart Things'

The author of "The Little Book of Heartbreak" talks to Leah Hitchings about if love is just in your head on Science Island. 
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Meghan Laslocky on the Science of Heartbreak

We may be eating meat grown in a lab sooner than you think. Join Leah Hitchings and Grant Burningham on Science Island as they host biotech entrepreneur (and Vegan Mafia member) Ryan Bethencourt.

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