Windows Media | Real Audio … There’s no formula for cultivating an artistic community. In Baltimore, cheap rents and empty factories are making way for studio spaces and galleries. But the economic and cultural ingredients …

Windows Media | Real Audio … The story of a team of men who journey deep into the heart of the Amazon to find and protect a man believed to the lone survivor of an …

MP3 … Eli Kintisch tells NPR’s Guy Raz that many scientists see geoengineering as a sort of insurance policy. “We might face emergencies in the future which driving a Prius or putting up …

Windows Media | Real Audio … The creation of the world’s first self-replicating, synthetic cell heralds a new era in biology. It also prompts moral, legal, and safety questions: Analysis of the potential …

MP3 … What microorganism can make mice attracted to cats or make humans more likely to have car accidents or even develop a mental illness like schizophrenia? Host Guy Raz talks with infectious disease researcher …

MP3 … In one day, hundreds of IEEE members tackled the future of water and energy in one big brainstorming game, cosponsored by IEEE Spectrum and Institute for the Future. Together, they came up …

MP3 … For insight on the future of books, Future Tense speaks with author Susan Orlean (The Orchid Thief), publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin, and Bob Stein, the founder and co-director of the Institute for the …

MP3 … Each year the internet grows more multilingual. The good news: this has allowed hundreds of millions of people to get online and use their native language. The bad news: it threatens to divide …

Windows Media | Real Audio … It’s being called the “flash crash.” Over the course of a half hour, the stock market plunged nearly 1,000 points before reversing and recovering 543 points in a minute …

MP3… Richard Clarke has now turned his attention to another potential security catastrophe: computer-based terrorism attacks. In his new book, Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It, he and …

MP3… The idea that geoengineering can combat global warming is a controversial one, fraught with scientific uncertainties and ethical issues. In his new book, How to Cool the Planet, Jeff Goodell explains that there are …

Windows Media | Real Audio… When you order red snapper at a restaurant, you may actually be purchasing catfish. The sheep’s milk at your local market may actually be cow’s milk. Watchdogs say “food fraud” …

Windows Media | Real Audio… In 1989, Bill McKibben sounded an early-warning alarm about the future hazards of global climate change. He now says the things we were warned about are happening all around us …

Windows Media | Real Audio… A major court ruling last week threw a wrench into federal plans to regulate the Internet. But regulators would have been shooting at a moving target anyway — broadband technologies …

MP3… Volunteers with MIT’s Fab Lab program, which is part of the school’s Bits and Atoms lab, helped create a Wi-Fi network in Afghanistan. They call it FabFi, and they made it from junk: wire, …

MP3… They’re known as “flash mobs” — gatherings of people who use social media and text messages to stage a spontaneous group “dance-in” at a train station or get a big crowd together to imitate …

Windows Media | Real Audio… Artificial trees to capture carbon, billions of tiny mirrors to reflect sunlight, sulfate to whiten clouds: promise and pitfalls of large scale radical ideas for addressing climate change. [Diane …

MP3… India has the third largest higher education system in the world, but it’s largely closed to foreign colleges and universities. That may soon change. The World’s Katy Clark reports on a bill pending in …

MP3… Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Duke University professor, Henry Petroski, about his new book, The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems, where he explores science and engineering and how …

Windows Media | Real Audio … Before long, instead of reaching for your wallet, you may be reaching for your cellphone. Thanks to digital money transfers, you can already Tweet a donation to your favorite …

MP3… Dr Aleks Krotoski continues her investigation into how the world wide web is transforming our lives. In this second programme in the series, she charts how, for better and for worse, the web is …

MP3… Twenty years on from the invention of the world wide web, Dr. Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. Joined by some of the web’s biggest names …

MP3… Dr. Aleks Krotoski concludes her investigation of how the World Wide Web is transforming almost every aspect of our lives. Joined by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Al Gore and the neuroscientist Susan …

MP3… Dr. Aleks Krotoski continues her investigation into how the world wide web is transforming our lives. In the third programme in the series, she charts how the web has impacted businesses — and in …

MP3… With the cap-and-trade legislation aimed at curbing global warming stalled in Congress, there’s an almost-complete collapse of the market for carbon credits. That means profits are drying up for people who are paid to …