Microsoft's new gaming interface tracks your body's movements, without handheld controllers.

Yeast, hops, grain, water, biology, chemistry, and physics, all go into making a great glass of beer.

We'll take you inside the American Astronomical Society's Planetary Sciences meeting, going on this week.

Ira goes for a spin in Nissan's upcoming electric car.

We'll talk about the Kids' Science Challenge, a NSF-funded competition that challenges kids to come up with problems that can be solved via science.

Researchers describe a new way to create yarns containing exotic materials, from battery ingredients to catalysts to superconductors.

No lab? No Ph.D.? No problem. Sign on for some citizen science.

Psychologists say buying experiences, not things, can can make you happier.

High school engineering students describe their award-winning invention.

We'll talk about the potential benefits offered by real-time mobile data mining, and about the risks to privacy.

In this segment, Ira and guests discuss notable books about science, medicine, and the environment that were published in the last year. Call in with your own suggestions!

Ira talks with Greg Graffin, a lecturer in the life sciences at UCLA -- and singer /songwriter for the band 'Bad Religion.

A new documentary looks at a controversial 1970s experiment to teach a chimpanzee sign language.

In this segment, Ira talks with science writer Richard Preston about his craft, and about the stories and people he has covered over the years.

This week, the World Science Festival brings big thinkers from around the world to a five-day festival in New York City.

We'll find out about a new basic electronic structure called the 'memristor,' and why it has electronics developers excited.

After years on the slow track, America's high-speed rail may finally be building momentum.

Researchers have used pulses of light to store the memory of a bad event that never actually happened into the brains of fruit flies. We'll talk about how, and why.

We get the forecast for domestic climate change policy in the months ahead.

A microbiologist and a biosecurity expert debate the risks and benefits of publishing two studies.

Ira talks with John Holdren, head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, about the role of science in the Obama administration.

Researchers studying a sample of bacteria from water taken from a crack in a South African gold mine -- nearly 3 kilometers below the surface of the Earth -- have found that the ecosystem in the crack consists of only one organism.

Just in time to beat the heat - we'll talk about the somewhat disturbing chemistry of swimming pool water.

We'll get the results of a recent student competition centered around the design and construction of living machines.