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Miles To Go

Join award-winning journalist Miles O’Brien as he explores developments in technology, science, avia

Episodes

Total: 42

After years of exhaustive research linking the pesticide chlorpyrifos to a host of developmental and

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not off in the distant future... in some ways it is already here. Ho

Communicating the science of climate change, with its overwhelming expert consensus, seems like it s

What is machine learning? How does it work? What are these artificially intelligent algorithms usefu

Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than Carbon Dioxide. It is more short-lived than CO2 (a

In the final episode in our series on Junk News, some wisdom from one of the leading experts in the

Facebook was created for people to share family photos and memories. But as ads entered the mix, the

The Internet was supposed to provide a utopian virtual world where all of us could come together in

As Hawaii trembles with earthquakes and the Kilauea volcano continues to spew forth lava and gas, re

Russian actors may have run an online disinformation campaign during the 2016 US presidential electi

Russian actors may have run an online disinformation campaign during the 2016 US presidential electi

Top US intelligence agencies agree that Russia meddled in the 2016 US Presidential election using an

The Cambridge Analytica scandal has placed Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook at the center of the data pr

The uncontained engine failure of Southwest flight 1380 reminds us once again that commercial aviati

Long before Facebook, Twitter or even Google existed, the fact checking website Snopes.com was runni

How did the internet become a tangled web of misinformation? Miles speaks to danah boyd, Principal R

Who or what determines what's in your Facebook Newsfeed? It's a complex algorithm that aims to put w

Miles catches up with Astronaut Scott Kelly and learns about what it’s like to spend a year in space

When you think of 3D printing, you may envision useless trinkets, a cheesy iPhone cover, or extruded

Siegfried Hecker is a Metallurgist and Nuclear Scientist. He served as the director of the Los Alamo