Xconomy Report: Full 'Metal' Funding

By Gregory T. Huang & Erin Kutz
What’s catching Bill Gates’ attention these days? Local startup Liquid Metal Battery. Its technology could help the grid make better use of renewable energy sources.

State Opens Investigation into Facebook IPO

By Sarah Birnbaum
Massachusetts’ top securities regulator has subpoenaed Morgan Stanley related to allegations that it misled most shareholders about the value of Facebook's IPO.

The 31 Songs That Cost $675,000

By WGBH News
See and hear the songs Joel Tenenbaum downloaded that were at stake in the BMG lawsuit. You've definitely heard many of them yourself ... and perhaps you even own a few.

Innovation Spotlight: Recycling Plastics

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE REST OF IT

By Cristina Quinn
Banned in Concord, the plastic water bottle has become a symbol of waste. But an entire industry wants you to keep using plastic ... as long as you toss it in the blue bin. WGBH News finds there is, indeed, a future in plastics.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: From Technology to the Tea Party

By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
Thomas Massie started a tech company and moved West ... and then moved back to Kentucky, where he's a Tea Party darling and favored to win the Republican nomination for Congress.

Business

Facebook, Phone Home!

By Kristina Finn & Danielle Dreilinger
With the big IPO in the headlines, Mass. House Speaker Robert DeLeo put together his own sales pitch: to convince Mark Zuckerberg to move back to the Bay State.

Education

New MIT President Leads in Online Ed

By Danielle Dreilinger
MIT provost L. Rafael Reif received a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation award for his role in the institution's online learning platforms. He talked about the MITx and edX projects with WGBH News.

WGBH News Focus: The MBTA

Get Inside the T — Virtually

WGBH NEWS FOCUS: THE MBTA

By Danielle Dreilinger
The MBTA now offers a mobile map option on Android phones that lets people see inside some stations. But will it be useful?

INNOVATION HUB

Inner-City Programs For The Next Big Thinkers

MORE INNOVATION HUB

By Kara Miller
A look at the innovative programs that are helping inner-city students get the connections, resources and knowledge that it takes to be the next great entrepreneur, scientist or thinker.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: You Don't Have to 'Like' Him

By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
Zuckerberg haters, relax: The social network giant has growing competition in the commerce realm from local startups such as CustomMade, Daily Grommet and Krush.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: E Pioneers!

By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
Everyone's waiting for Facebook's IPO. But sometimes it's good to remember our country's first social network. ...

Education

The Changing Landscape of Online Ed

By WGBH News
edX is making a splash this month -- another example of the academic marketplace filling the space between for-profit schools like the University of Phoenix and the traditional ivy-covered halls.

Education

Harvard, MIT Leaders Discuss Online Initiative

MORE GREATER BOSTON

By Jared Bowen
The provosts of Harvard and MIT joined Emily Rooney to discuss their joint online education initiative — one they think will be a game-changer. Watch Greater Boston on-demand.

Technology

New York's Space Shuttle Fly-By

MORE NEWS

By Mark Memmott
Carried atop a jumbo jet, the Enterprise is flying from Northern Virginia to New York City and passed low over the city's five boroughs.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Fly the Googley Skies

By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
A year after Google acquired local startup ITA Software, it appears the giant's travel strategy is more about managing data than finding the best fares.

WGBH News Focus: The MBTA

Sci-Fi Solutions for the T

WGBH NEWS FOCUS: THE MBTA

By Phillip Martin
Some local experts are working to increase MBTA ridership by developing tools that sound like something out of speculative fiction.

Environment

Wasting Away: An Earth Day Look At Living Among Garbage

MORE SCIENCE NEWS

By Dana Farrington
Around the globe, waste can tell both an environmental and social story. Here are some reports of communities living in, among and off of others' trash.

Movies

That's Not CGI: At Monsterpalooza, Monsters Are Real

MORE SCIENCE NEWS

By Beth Accomando
As usual, this year's summer blockbusters will be stuffed with computer-created aliens, zombies or vampires. Not all filmmakers want virtual creatures, however; at Monsterpalooza, they make their monsters by hand.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: (Re)generating Excitement

By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
A couple of Cambridge companies are gaining ground with their regenerative medicine technology, which uses living cells and other natural materials to promote healing.

Innovation Hub

Swapping Blackboards for iPads: Tech in the Classroom

MORE INNOVATION HUB

By Kara Miller
Children spend more and more time punching out text messages, playing online games, and updating their Facebook pages. Is a tech takeover of the classroom inevitable?

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Mobile Is Moving

By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
While most of the tech world is talking about Facebook's billion-dollar acquisition of Instagram, a couple of local startups in mobile and social apps are making some noise of their own.

INNOVATION HUB

How Social Media Is Shaping Us

LISTEN TO THE SHOW

By Kara Miller
Innovation Hub takes a look at how social media is changing us and the world we live in. What do we share about ourselves? And what do we want to keep secret?

INNOVATION HUB

Brave New Snacktime: Edible Packaging, Breathable Caffeine

MORE INNOVATION HUB

By Kara Miller

We talked with David Edwards on the mad science behind his food inventions, like inhalable chocolate and caffeine.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Remembering Norman Priebatsch

By Xconomy.com
The life sciences entrepreneur is missing and presumed dead after a hiking accident in New Hampshire.

Technology

Gamers Invade Massachusetts

WGBH NEWS: PAX EAST SIGNS DEAL

By Will Roseliep
As 75,000 video game fans descend on the Seaport for the PAX East conference, locals say the Bay State has become a major player in the industry.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Share and Share Un-Alike

By Xconomy.com
Kibits, a new social networking mobile app, allows users to control exactly what information gets shared with whom — so your colleagues will never, ever see that vacation pic.

NOVA

Lessons from a Fatal Crash

NOVA: How Air Flight France 447 Could Have Been Saved

What have scientists learned from examining the little evidence they obtained from the worst crash in Air France's history? (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Let the Robot Reach the Top Shelf

By Xconomy.com
It's the biggest local deal of the year so far: Amazon has acquired a North Reading company that makes wheeled robots to move packages in warehouses efficiently.

Innovation Hub

The Future of Knowledge: Too Big to Know

By Kara Miller
We're joined by Harvard’s David Weinberger, whose book, Too Big to Know, argues that the rapidly-expanding amount of information available to us is changing how we think and communicate.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Video Game Medicine

By Xconomy.com
Could your child leave his next checkup with a prescription for a video game? Akili Interactive Labs hopes its game will be the first approved by the FDA as a medical device.

Psychology & The Mind

A Nutrition Label for the News

By Cristina Quinn
You're doing it right now: You're consuming media. Some theorists say our information diet is making us bloated. Here's how they want to help us. EXTRA: What's your favorite media "junk food"?

Technology

Kinetic Theory and Absolute Zero

NOVA: Absolute Zero
INTERACTIVE: States of Matter

Scientists use the theory of kinetic energy to explore ways to harness energy generated from heat and movement.

Technology

Xconomy Report: The Internet Never Forgets

By Xconomy.com
New England tech startups could be instrumental in changing the way companies market their wares in a digital world, with technology to help companies get their stories out on Facebook and merge advertising with mobile apps.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Tech in the Air

By Xconomy.com
A Google-owned Cambridge software company will introduce a new reservation system for airlines, starting with Hyannis-based Cape Air.

Innovation Hub

Bringing More Women To The Top Of The Business World

MORE INNOVATION HUB

By Kara Miller
We talk to a filmmaker, a vice president at Google and a national news anchor about the future of women in business.

Health Care

Xconomy Report: More Hope for Hep C

By Xconomy.com
The battle for hepatitis C drug market dominance rages on locally, with Vertex honing its drug Telaprevir and Enanta teaming with Novartis to create a new treatment.

WGBH Local News

Studying Libraries, Part 2: The E-Book Battle

STUDYING LIBRARIES, PT. 1

By Sean Corcoran
Librarians are reporting dramatic increases in the numbers of people looking to borrow e-books. But some publishing houses are rethinking whether they want libraries loaning out e-books at all.

Innovation Hub

High-Tech Health: Apps For Exercise, Diet And More

By Kara Miller
We’ll look at high-tech ways of getting healthy — a nutritionist in your pocket, a marathon coach on your mobile phone — and more.

Innovation Hub

The Tiniest Inventions: Nanotechnology

By Kara Miller
This week, we dive into the teeny, tiny world of nanotechnology — and find out from those on the cutting edge if it could fundamentally alter and improve our lives.

Education

Studying Libraries, Part 1: More with Less

WCAI

By Sean Corcoran
People are looking to libraries to respond to technology and make up for cuts in their own household budgets — and libraries are answering the call.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Stylin' Students

By Xconomy.com
Fashion isn’t the first word that comes to mind when you hear “Harvard,” but Xconomy has tracked down 19 young, fashion-focused internet companies with founders from the B-school.

Business

Game Conference Sparks Hope in Local Industry

By Toni Waterman & Sanjay Salomon
Officials say the video game conference PAX East’s 10-year commitment to Boston could make Massachusetts the center of the rapidly growing, multi-billion-dollar gaming industry.

Physics & Mathematics

Not X-Ray Vision, Terahertz-Ray Vision

NOVA: Diamond Q & A with Butler
MIT News on Terahertz

Terahertz laser technolgy is a field still to be explored for its possible applications, especially in the field of security scanning.

Physics & Mathematics

Seaching for the Unexpected

NOVA: The Ghost Particle

Listen to David Wark, High Energy Physicist, talk about the search for interesting physics.

Biology & Chemistry

Super Bowl Sensors: The Findings Are In

WGBH NEWS: THE BIOSENSORS GO ON

By Cristina Quinn
Some unexpected data came out of WGBH News' Super Bowl biosensor experiment that could advance a researcher's work on addiction.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Corporate Eyes Are Watching You

By Xconomy.com
With video conferencing, your competitors can be just as bored as you are: Many video conferences are susceptible to corporate spying, according to Boston software company Rapid7.

Technology

Watching The Super Bowl Online: A Review

SCIENCE + THE SUPER BOWL

By Danielle Dreilinger
The Super Bowl was the most-watched TV show in U.S. history — but for geeks, the excitement was online, with NBC's first-ever web stream. How did the experience measure up?

Sports

The State Of Biosensors And The Super Bowl

By Cristina Quinn
Did the high-stress Super Bowl make your heart pound? During the game, we strapped biosensors on fans to learn about the state of mobile-phone health technology.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Finding The Next Facebook

By Xconomy.com
While most of the tech world is analyzing Facebook’s impending IPO, a new effort at Harvard University is trying to find the next Facebook — and keep it in Cambridge.

Innovation Hub

Cars That Fly, Fold Up And Drive Us Forward

By Kara Miller
How can we adapt cars to a world that's rapidly industrializing, urbanizing, and straining to meet its energy needs?

Innovation Hub

Innovation For An Energy-Hungry World

By Kara Miller
What it will take to generate the energy and fuel for a planet that just hit 7 billion and isn’t done growing? The old gas-and-coal-powered grid is changing. Germany now generates 20% renewable energy, but America has lagged — and our next guest says that’s got to change.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: It's Hard Out There For A Jerk

By Xconomy.com
An informal survey of Boston-area tech CEOs suggests that being a jerk may be much less beneficial than it used to be.

Innovation Hub

A Tour Of Harvard's Innovation Lab

MORE INNOVATION HUB

By Kara Miller
We take a walk through Harvard's new Innovation Lab,where students and graduate students can take courses, find mentors, compete for start-up money… and work together while doing it.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Get Stupid, Student

By Xconomy.com
How can students prepare for the world they'll face in 10 years? Xconomy asked 22 innovators as part of a new national report on the future of education.

Technology

A One-Woman Wikipedia

WGBH NEWS: KENDALL SQ. ON THE BLACKOUT

By Danielle Dreilinger
We talk with the librarian who fielded your questions to #altwiki during the Great Wikipedia Blackout of Jan. 18.

Technology

On The Day The Internet Went Dark

WGBH NEWS: WHAT THEY ASKED #ALTWIKI

By Cristina Quinn
At the start of this week, most of us had never heard of SOPA or PIPA. But on Wednesday, everyone was talking about the online protest — and in Kendall Square, technologists approved.

World Health

Diagnosing Disease On A 'Postage Stamp'

By Cristina Quinn
Paper is everywhere — in your coffeemaker, on your desk, in the recycling bin. But what if it could save lives? One Cambridge company thinks a slip of paper holds the answer to diagnosing illness cheaply, anywhere.

Technology

Asking An #Alternative Wikipedia

By WGBH News
With Wikipedia dark for the day as a political protest, NPR, the Washington Post and the Guardian are teaming up to answer questions tweeted with the hashtag #altwiki. What are people asking?

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: How Green Was My Startup

By Xconomy.com
A new genomics technology company in Cambridge hopes to examine the genetic makeup of plants, animals and other organisms to find hot new drugs.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: More For Less In 2011

By Xconomy.com
Fewer deals, more money. That’s the takeaway from a new report on U.S. venture capital exits from 2011. Among the Boston companies that went public in that time: Zipcar, TripAdvisor and Carbonite.

Innovation Hub

Encore: Innovations In Urban And Digital Learning

By Kara Miller
On this encore edition of Innovation Hub, we look at new ideas in urban education and explore the expanding horizons of educational video games.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: This Is Boston, Not Seattle... Right?

By Xconomy.com
It’s beginning to look a lot like the West Coast around here as Amazon reportedly considers opening an office in Cambridge.

Technology

Texting While Walking Draws Safety Concerns — And An App

BOSTON: THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT

By Cristina Quinn
They’re everywhere: stumbling on sidewalks, ambling across busy streets, even falling into fountains — the cell phone zombies. But, inevitably, there's an app to help them.

Education

X Marks The Spot For MIT Online Ed

By Jordan Weinstein
The new MITx online learning platform will offer students interactive labs, discussions and the opportunity to earn MIT credentials, provost Rafael Reif said.

Technology

Happy Holidays From WGBH

By WGBH News
At WGBH, even the editing boards get into the holiday spirit....

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Fight Fat With Fat

By Xconomy.com
A new Boston firm has raised $34 million to develop drugs that tap into a new understanding of brown fat, a tissue that could help people burn off the more-familiar white fat.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Protecting Online Privacy

By Xconomy.com
When you go online, do you know which eyes are watching you? Boston startup Abine is trying to give consumers more control over their personal information.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Treatment For Parkinson's

By Xconomy.com
In this week's top life sciences and innovation news, Michael J. Fox's charity has given a local startup funding to improve Parkinson's treatment.

Technology

Real Questions About Robot Answers

By Cristina Quinn
As we become more and more dependent on technology, and companies create ever-better facsimiles of human conversation, it might be worth asking: Is this really what we want?

INNOVATION

Xconomy Report For Nov. 25, 2011

By Xconomy.com
AOL co-founder Steve Case has invested in a Boston startup that's created a smartphone app popular among runners.

INNOVATION

Xconomy Report For Nov. 18, 2011

By Xconomy.com
Will the new Harvard Innovation Lab, opening today, keep the next Zuck or Gates in Boston? That's the $20 million question.

Fitness & Nutrition

A Picture That's Worth 1,000 Calories

READ THE PLATEMATE PROPOSAL (PDF)

By Jordan Weinstein
Two former Harvard University engineering students have developed a smartphone app they say could make dieting and weight loss as simple as taking a picture.

WHERE WE LIVE

Worcester Plans A New Economy

WHERE WE LIVE: COMPLETE SERIES

By Sarah Birnbaum
The amenities that have attracted biotech execs to Worcester are no accident: Starting 30 years ago, the city has been working to attract new industries. But will it be enough?

Xconomy

Xconomy Report For Nov. 11, 2011

By Xconomy.com
If XL Hybrids' new venture succeeds, anyone could turn their gas-guzzling clunker into a hybrid electric car.

Energy

Energy In The Ether?

By Bob Seay
Wireless electricity offers the promise of a life free from the worry of losing one's phone charger — or maybe even losing power after a storm.

Technology

Facebook Founder's 'Fans' Flock To See Him IRL

INNOVATION HUB: ZUCKERBERG RETURNS

By Cristina Quinn and WGBH News
Harvard students and the media crowded around to hear Mark Zuckerberg explain his plans for Facebook — which do not involve opening a Boston office any time soon. UPDATE: Listen to his speech to students.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report For Nov. 4, 2011

By Xconomy.com
On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook is recruiting at Harvard and MIT to tap into Boston's hot startup market — epitomized by fast-growing upstarts such as HubSpot, Gemvara, Kayak, TripAdvisor and Wayfair.

INNOVATION

Xconomy Report For Oct. 28, 2011

Biogen Idec, the world's largest maker of injectable treatments for multiple sclerosis, has met its goals in a second clinical trial of the company's first pill for the disease.

ISSUES & IDEAS

Today At WGBH: TEDx New England

By WGBH News
Watch at your computer on November 1 as thinkers discuss innovations and ideas worth acting on at the WGBH studios.

INNOVATION

Inventing The Future: Learning From The Epic Fail

WGBH RADIO: INNOVATION HUB

By WGBH News
Many successful startups — including Rovio, creator of "Angry Birds" — had to experience a lot of failure first.

INNOVATION

MIT Signs Historic Deal With New Russian Technology Hub

MIT HELPS BUILD THE 'SILICON VALLEY' OF RUSSIA

By Phillip Martin
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is teaming with a Russian government–sponsored foundation to build a world-class graduate school of technology, known as SkTech, just outside Moscow.

INNOVATION

Xconomy Report For Oct. 21, 2011

A Boston-area tech company is creating the software for what could be the nation’s first wireless collision avoidance system for cars.

TECHNOLOGY

Experts Warn Against Digital 'Babysitters'

THE EMILY ROONEY SHOW: CHILDREN IN A TOUCH-SCREEN WORLD
GREATER BOSTON: MANDATORY IPADS IN THE CLASSROOM

By WGBH News
Touch-screen devices and tablets can be educational for children, experts said — but parents have to be in charge.

INNOVATION

MIT Helps Build the Silicon Valley of Russia

By Phillip Martin
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is about to sign a historic agreement to help establish a major university in Russia—that will anchor a planned $6.6 billion town of technology, innovation and business success. SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE: A TIMELINE
MIT, FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE COLLABORATION

Remembrances

Remembering Steven Paul Jobs

WATCH THE WGBH STEVE JOBS 1990 INTERVIEW

By Bob Seay
We have a special remembrance of Apple's Steve Jobs in a superb WGBH interview from 1990. It's from a series called The Machine That Changed The World. In it, Jobs talks about how that revolutionary device, the Macintosh personal computer, came to be and the particular gifts of the people who made it a reality.

Technology

Mass. Companies Get $27 M To Develop Clean Cars

By Sarah Birnbaum
Massachusetts companies will receive about $27 million dollars from the federal government to help improve fuel efficiency technologies for next generation cars.

Digital Life

Data-Sharing Websites May Facilitate Identity Theft

By Toni Waterman
A South Boston woman is struggling with identity theft — and it may not have been difficult for the theives to get her information. A crop of websites are aggregating personal information and showing it to anyone who wants to see, for free.

POSTCARD FROM CAMBRIDGE

Boston: There's An App For That

POSTCARD FROM JAMAICA PLAIN

By Jess Bidgood
A growing number of individuals are dreaming up new possibilities for Boston’s civic data – basic streams of information on topics ranging from real-time bus data to sidewalks. They gathered for a low-key afternoon of brainstorming in Cambridge.

Technology

At MIT, The Jeopardy Machine Is Personal

NOVA: THE SMARTEST MACHINE ON EARTH

By Andrea Smardon
Wednesday night is the much-anticipated final round of the quiz show Jeopardy, in which Watson, a computer, competes against the two greatest champions in the show's history. The contest has generated a special kind of excitement at MIT.

Nova

The Smartest Night On TV

LIVE BLOGGING & TWITTER
INSIDE NOVA BLOG

Catch Nova on its new night and time with a triple-header: How Smart Are Animals? What's going on in the brains of non-human animals? Making Stuff Smarter: Smart materials that can respond, change, and even learn. The Smartest Machine On Earth: Will scientists build a computer that rivals the flexibility and power of a human brain?

Wednesday, February 9, at 8pm on WGBH 2