Good news you may have missed in 2023
From technology and medicine to the environment, David Progue brings us some of the headlines that remind us 2023 was in many ways a pretty good year!
The James Webb Space Telescope's continued gifts
In the two years since the telescope was blasted into orbit, it has performed like a champ, capturing phenomenal images of the heavens and collecting data about distant planets – and scientists say it will continue for decades.
Holiday gift ideas from Techno Claus
He comes once a year, speaking only in rhyme, with high-tech suggestions at gift-giving time. Our own David Pogue (no techno-phobe he) offers nifty new gadgets to put under the tree.
The tastemakers: Influencers and laboratories behind food trends
How are new foods created and marketed, like protein-infused coffee, or eggs created without chickens? "Sunday Morning" introduces you to companies that help shape what and how you eat.
Artist Ed Ruscha on his career-spanning retrospective
"Ed Ruscha / Now Then," the largest exhibition ever of iconic and cryptic works by one of the most celebrated American artists of the postwar era, is now on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Working it out: Is hybrid the future of work?
As the pandemic eased, you might have expected employees who'd been working from home would head back to the office fulltime. That never happened! Instead, a blend of commuting and working remotely is becoming the new normal.
Barry Manilow on songwriting, fame, and his new Broadway musical, "Harmony"
The singer-songwriter who has fifty Top-40 hits (along with a Grammy, a Tony and two Emmys) is about to debut his Broadway musical, "Harmony," the true story of a pre-World War II singing group in Germany whose fame was obliterated by the Nazis.
Are attention spans getting shorter (and does it matter)?
Are you getting more distracted by multitasking on top of multitasking? David Pogue tries to get answers from researchers and users of distractive technologies to find out how behavior, productivity and stress levels are affected.
Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk: "It's almost like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
The bestselling biographer of such inventive personalities as Steve Jobs has written a new book about the volatile billionaire who has built electric cars, launched rockets, and thrown wrenches into the war between Russia and Ukraine.
The science and art of lightning
Beautiful and dangerous, lightning bolts are one of nature's most captivating and misunderstood phenomena.
Extreme heat, the most lethal climate disaster
Temperature records have been breaking all over, as our Earth registers some of the hottest periods ever measured. Experts say it's the "new normal."
OceanGate CEO's 2022 interviews on Titan sub's design, safety
"Sunday Morning" correspondent David Pogue talked in Summer 2022 with the man behind the creation of the submersible that catastrophically imploded, killing five, during a June 2023 dive to the wreck of the Titanic.
A second Titanic tragedy: The failure of OceanGate's Titan
David Pogue, who rode in the same underwater vehicle that perished last week, looks back on the controversial submersible, and his conversations with the man who built it.
Why are 2023 Canadian wildfires affecting the U.S.?
There are anomalies that help explain why smoke from 400 Canadian wildfires is causing such havoc in the United States. Climate and health scientist Vijay Limaye, of the Natural Resources Defense Council, explains why this may be a sign of things to come.
Debt ceiling showdown "was incredibly costly" to U.S., economic expert says
Negotiations over how America pays its bills have devolved into partisan brinkmanship, which one business school professor calls "an entirely avoidable disaster" that we will pay more for in the future.