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Innovation, Science, & New American Breakthroughs

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At the start of a new year, we look at what’s on the frontier, and where the next big innovations will come from.

Generation after generation, the rocket fuel of American economic vitality has been scientific innovation. Free-thinking minds in great labs and humble garages, opening up huge new horizons for life.

So what’s the next steamboat, light bulb, transistor, supercomputer that’s going to crack open the future? What might this year bring?

We’ve got the editor-in chief of Scientific American with us. The west coast chief for Popular Science. And the president of MIT.

We look at algae power, stem cells in eyeballs, grabbing dark matter, and the frontier of scientific innovation in 2011.
-Tom Ashbrook
Guests:

Susan Hockfield, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mariette DiChristina, editor in chief of Scientific American.

Jacob Ward, deputy editor of Popular Science magazine. He is in Las Vegas attending the Consumer Electronics Show, which starts today. See his magazine's roundup of best recent innovations.

This program aired on January 6, 2011.

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