We're at the dawn of the 4K ultra-high-definition TV era. What does resolution really mean? And...
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Back to Back to the Future II, Part Two
The gang continues to discuss the tech seen in the future segment of Back to the Future II. Were...
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Back to Back to the Future II, Part One
It's time to go back in time to the future of the past! It's 2015, the year Marty McFly traveled...
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Today, we have the ruins of ancient Rome, Persia and Egypt. What will the remains of modern...
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Animals like squid, octopuses and jellyfish use strange, fascinating limbs to interact with the...
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Where's my jetpack? Where's my jetpack? Where's my jetpack? Where's my jetpack? Where's my...
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Could we make a real lightsaber?
Is there any way we could create an actual working lightsaber? The podcast crew undergoes Jedi...
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Passwords are a pain and they're edging towards becoming obsolete. What's next?
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Environmental Sensors in Space Travel
In some science fiction universes, a quick scan from your EVA suit is all you need to determine...
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The Orion space vehicle recently passed a major flight test. How will Orion fit into NASA's plans...
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Are robots going to take our jobs? Will we just get new jobs? And will it be a smooth transition?
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Building robots is hard. What if we just created an army of cyborg cockroaches? Guess what? We are!
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Can computers describe what they see?
Why is it so hard to teach a computer to understand complex scenes in pictures? We look at the...
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If we found intelligent alien life, how would we communicate with it? We explore the challenges...
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Space Travel and Synthetic Biology
We can't carry everything we need for long space missions. Could synthetic biology help us...
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Distributed computing not only helps researchers analyze data more efficiently, but also lets you...
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We've looked at the original X-Men, but what about other mutants? From Wolverine to Magneto, we...
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Could technology or genetic engineering give us powers similar to those possessed by the X-Men?...
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If time travel is possible, then surely someone from the future has visited our present. How...
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Scientists have discovered hundreds of exoplanets. How do you detect something that far away?
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