In the days of old, creating a song required a composer, a lyricist, an arranger, a recording engineer, a band... more

Planes contribute 9% of the world’s carbon pollution, but electrifying them has always seemed impossible; batteries have never been powerful... more

The U.S. has fallen into polarized, partisan, political bickering. Online, liberals and conservatives seem to despise each other. But nobody... more

Every month, over a billion people open their phones and fire up Google Maps. Its original function—offering driving directions, with... more

For the most part, we don’t hunt whales anymore, but we’re still killing them—mostly by driving ships into them. One... more

On Christmas Day, 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit a million miles from Earth—a huge and... more

People use all kinds of words to describe Elon Musk, from “genius” to “megalomaniac,” from “visionary” to “erratic”—but now there’s... more

In April 1978, MIT professor Amar Bose was flying home to Boston from Switzerland. But when he tried to listen... more

There’s a new kind of jack in town—well, new as of 2014—called USB-C. This single, tiny connector can carry power,... more

Genealogy has been around a while. So has DNA evidence. But what if you combined the two? What if you... more

We’ve known about the placebo effects for over 200 years. That’s where doctors give you a pill containing no actual... more

In 1994, Masahiro Hara got tired of having to scan six or seven barcodes on every box of Toyota car-parts... more

The lost OceanGate submersible has captured the world’s attention. In the summer of 2022, “CBS News Sunday Morning” correspondent and... more

In his senior year of college, a monstrous ailment fell upon Doug Lindsay. His skin felt flayed. His heart raced.... more

We’ve been shipping stuff across oceans for centuries. But until 1956, we loaded our ships in the dumbest way possible:... more

The first time you heard “Star Trek” characters speak Klingon, or the “Game of Thrones” characters speaking Dothraki and High... more

We’re overrun with plastic. It’s in our oceans, our water, our food. Something has to be done—preferably by corporations, which... more

Understandably, there is a lot going on in our lives, and we feel pulled in every direction. But trying to... more

After 17 years of trying to prop up their failing farm outside of London, Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree were... more

65 million years ago an asteroid struck the earth. In the ensuing planetary darkness, the dinosaurs went extinct. But the... more

In 1915, British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s historic expedition to Antarctica stalled when floating ice trapped, crushed, and finally sank... more

Deepfakes, those computer-generated videos of well-known people saying things they never actually said, strike a lot of experts as terrifying.... more

The star attraction of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is the Perseverance rover. But bolted to its underside was a stowaway:... more

In early 2023 ChatGPT blew up the internet. It’s an AI app that can create any piece of writing you... more

From NASA helicopters in space to robot bouys at sea, “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent David Pogue is covering all the... more

In “Back to Titanic” Part 1, David Pogue told of his invitation to join an expedition to visit the wreck... more

The wreck of the Titanic lies about 2.4 miles below sea level. Only five submersibles in the world can carry... more

If you type the word “carrot” into Google Images, you get thousands of photos of the classic root vegetable. They’re... more

People talk about greenhouse-gas emissions from cars, planes, and factories, but one source out-pollutes them all: Cows. Raising meat animals... more

By the year 2000, the internet was already becoming a cesspool. The bad guys used software bots to sign up... more