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In the United States between 1930 and 1970 there were thousands of racially motivated homicides, a brutal continuation o... Read more

Science fiction is filled with examples of robots advancing in intelligence enough to become unrelenting killing machine... Read more

Inside all computers are ones and zeros, a binary world that excels in calculation and speed, but has difficulty with nu... Read more

In the farmland at the border of France and Switzerland, the massive Large Hadron Collider smashes subatomic particles t... Read more

Everyone knows that 911 is the number to call in an emergency, but more recently, cities have set up 311, a number for c... Read more

For the last two years, Brexit has threatened to sever one of Europe’s largest countries from the rest, a divorce that h... Read more

Two years after a presidential election that shocked so many, we are still trying to understand the role that fake news ... Read more

Original Broadcast: 9/10/2018. One of the first podcasts of the second season of What’s New featured David Herlihy, an i... Read more

Wearable technology like smartwatches and the related digital devices that now populate our homes and workplaces are sta... Read more

Factories and the global supply chain have become increasingly automated in the last few decades, changing the way billi... Read more

Recently the hidden inner workings of internet giants like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Amazon have been exposed to sc... Read more

The World Wide Web just turned 30 years old, and so much has changed over those three decades because of this powerful n... Read more

Last year on this podcast, we told you about a large study of the news consumption habits of college students that had j... Read more

Original broadcast: 4/10/2018. Last year, professor Woody Hartzog was interviewed on What’s New about his new book relat... Read more

On The Magic of Human Motion, we give the question of how our brain controls our muscles a second and maybe even a third... Read more

Reading is one of the most profound things we humans do, a way for our minds to encounter new ideas, and our imagination... Read more

Original broadcast: 4/16/2019. Our last podcast of the spring of 2019 featured Mai’a Cross, an expert on European politi... Read more

Comics are often viewed as a lesser form of storytelling, colored as they are by the superhero movies that fill multiple... Read more

Hashtags began as a simple way to categorize social media posts, but soon became a way for people across the world to co... Read more

The world has been upended by a novel coronavirus, and all we want to do is to return to normal. But how can that happen... Read more