A look at potential new cancer treatments, including oncolytic viruses and hyperthermia.

A helicopter tail left behind after the raid on Osama Bin Laden's hide-out may offer some clues about stealth technology used in the mission.

How do tree frogs get the word out? New research published this week says male red-eyed treefrogs communicate with one another in aggressive contests by using vibrations they send through their plant perches.

Facebook has dozens of toggles for privacy settings on its service, and a privacy policy longer than the US Constitution. Is it getting too hard to keep hold of our privacy online?

Relative risk? Survival rates? In this segment, we'll try to parse the language of medical studies and talk about how researchers and doctors interpret medical data.

In this segment, guest host Joe Palca talks with Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain scientist who suffered a stroke in 1996 at the age of 37.

Before CSI or Law and Order, how did chemical crimes come to light? Ira talks with author Deborah Blum about her new book about the dawn of medical forensics.

Optical scientists are celebrating 2010 as the 50th anniversary of the laser.

We'll talk about how the rapid pace of technology is creating new words and how new ideas drive new language.

Researchers examining DNA evidence gathered from soil samples say that the woolly mammoth may have survived for thousands of years longer than the fossil record indicates.

Have you ever wondered what the weekend shift might be like in a major city's psychiatric emergency room?

With technology placing endless information at our fingertips, has 'expertise' changed its meaning?

Much of the financial support for earthquake-stricken Haiti has a high-tech source -- the text message.

Researchers attempt to measure the amount of information humanity can store and transmit.

Jane McGonigal, author of Reality is Broken, explains how to make real life more 'gameful.'

Find out how to poison-proof holiday gatherings, and keep the holidays happy.

Why do people make, keep, and break their New Year's resolutions?

Are the stories about Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone accurate? We'll talk with an author who has a different take on the history of the telephone.

We'll talk about the hearing loop, an assistive technology for the hard of hearing that's popular in Europe, but less widespread in the US.

We'll give you a heads-up on what to watch for in your summer stargazing.

Take a breath and think of scientist-theologian Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen.

Why does Einstein, who died more than 50 years ago, continue to fascinate us?

Ira talks with Francis Collins, incoming director of the National Institutes of Health, about research priorities for the years ahead.

This week, scientists unveiled the first phase results of a public/private effort known as the 1000 Genome Project, an effort to sequence and compare the genomes of 2500 people from around the world.