The Mystery of Stuxnet | Cracking the Code | S57-E1
In the summer of 2010, a mysterious computer virus called Stuxnet lands on the desk of Symantec cybersecurity analyst Liam O’Murchu. Stuxnet...
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Man with No Memory | The Accident | S55-E1
Even as recently as the early 1950s, we didn’t understand that there were different types of memory, or how the brain processed and stored m...
Predator Drone | From Albatross to Amber | S54-E1
What if you could design a spy plane that could be flown remotely and hover in the sky for hours, providing reconnaissance for troops on the...
Pushing Painkillers | An Untapped Market | S53-E1
Doctors once shied away from using opioids to treat chronic pain, citing the risk of addiction. But in the 1970s, a new generation of doctor...
Social Media | Find Your Friends | S51-E1
Today social media is such a dominant part of our daily lives, it's hard to believe that only 20 years ago, it didn’t exist. Then a newly si...
Fracking | The Source Rock | S50-E1
In the late 1970s, oil and natural gas fields across the U.S. were drying up, making the country increasingly dependent on foreign oil. Then...
Cryonics | Immortality On Ice | S48-E1
Not everyone chooses burial or cremation after death. Some believe in cryonics, freezing their bodies in the hopes of being reanimated somet...
Storm Chasers | Tornado Alley | S47-E1
No extreme weather phenomenon fascinates us more than tornadoes. For most of human history, very little was known about how these graceful y...
Hacking | What’s in the Blue Box? | S46-E1
Hackers: the criminals who prey on our digital lives. Today they steal credit cards and personal information, or even commit acts of cyber-t...
Breaking The Sound Barrier | A Bullet With Wings | S45-E1
In the 1940s, as planes got faster, it seemed like they were hitting a wall -- literally. Many pilots tried to travel faster than the speed...
Lie Detector | The Heart of a Liar | S43-E1
Humans are shockingly bad at telling whether or not someone is lying. That’s why, a century ago, psychologists and criminologists developed...
Mission To Mars | Seeing Red | S42-E1
Even after the Apollo program put astronauts on the moon, Mars remained out of reach. Then, in 1990, an ambitious engineer hatched an ingeni...
Year In Review | When Will I Get the Vaccine? | S40-E1
2020 has been a year of struggle, uncertainty and loss. It has also forced us to adapt and innovate in nearly every aspect of our lives. But...
Telephone | Call Waiting | S39-E1
In the 19th Century, the telegraph is the cutting edge of communication. No one can imagine anything better—except Alexander Graham Bell. Yo...
Auto-Tune: From Cher to Kanye | S38-E1
All Andy Hildebrand wanted to do was make a computer program to help singers sound better. He never expected it to kick off a battle for the...
The Fight Against AIDS | The Epidemic Begins | S37-E1
In the early 1980s, a mysterious new disease spread like wildfire through the gay communities of major U.S. cities. Before it even had a nam...
Keeping Cool | A Chilly Reception | S35-E1
Muggy. Sticky. Miserable. For eons, that’s just what summer was. In fact, when air conditioning first became available, few people took adva...
Video Games | Electric Dreams | S34-E1
Call of Duty, Fortnite, Animal Crossing.... The video game industry generates billions of dollars each year. But not so long ago, video game...
Radar | Welcome to Tuxedo Park | S33-E1
What technology won WWII? Most people would say the atomic bomb, but the real answer is radar. As a small island country, vulnerable to aeri...
Ferris Wheel | Wheel in the Sky | S31-E1
The 1889 World’s Fair in Paris dazzles attendees with the Eiffel Tower. So, when plans begin for the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, the manda...
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