WIRED Science Video Podcast | PBS

Have you ever wanted to launch your own rocket? Well, now you can, with little more than a two liter soda bottle, wire hangers, a bicycle pump and some PVC pipe.

Meet Peter Homer. The man who won $200,000 in NASA's first-ever Astronaut Glove Challenge.

Explore the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) - an independent anthropomorphic system that provides mobility, environmental protection, communications and life support for an astronaut.

Have you ever wanted to build your own guitar? Forget Gibson and Yamaha - you can create your own custom design in a single afternoon with less than $20 and a cigar box.

Join Ziya Tong as she visits Maker Faire, an event where inventors build, craft, hack and play. If it doesn't sound familiar, picture a huge gathering of nerds and geeks who have just crawled out of their basements to show off what they've been secretly working on for the last several months.

So you think you can take an ordinary science idea and turn it into an extraordinary online video? Well, here's your chance to prove it. WIRED SCIENCE wants high school students to share their science know-how with the world. By joining our Student Video Contest they can show off their science savvy for a chance to win $2,000! Entries are due April 1, 2008. Winners will be announced May 17, 2008. Visit http://www.pbs.org/wiredscience for details.

It's been 50 years since the first satellite, Sputnik, was launched into orbit. Now, communication satellites are used in everything from radio and television to Internet connections. Special correspondent Adam Rogers knows a good business opportunity when he sees it and tries get in on the satellite action.

Hollywood film studios have been using computers to create special effects for years. But to make computer-generated water look real on the big screen, you have to understand some pretty complicated physics. Special correspondent Adam Rogers goes behind the scenes at one of the world's best visual effects companies, to show us how they cracked the code to create "perfect water" for the third Pirates of the Caribbean film.

The Office scene-stealer Rainn Wilson (aka Dwight Schrute) joins host Chris Hardwick to check out the chemical guts of an everyday product and finds you're never more than two steps away from something intoxicating.

Winemaking is one of our civilization's oldest crafts, but modern vintners are using more than oak barrels and fermentation to create the grape elixir. Host Ziya Tong travels to the California wine country to find out whether computer controlled micro-oxygenation and soil sensors can create the perfect vintage.

Computer scientist Luis von Ahn is best known for inventing those twisted, blurry words that websites ask you to type to post a comment or send an email. Called "CAPTCHAs," they help websites ensure that you are a real human, and not a computer.. Host Ziya Tong talks to the genius award recipient about how he hopes to trick us all into digitizing old books, one CAPTCHA at a time.

Rocketbelts went from being a grand military ambition to a classic James Bond moment, to part of a future that never materialized. WIRED SCIENCE travels to the first International Rocketbelt Convention in Niagara Falls to meet rocketbelt legends past and present

Host Chris Hardwick takes a look at the chemical guts of everyday products and finds you're never more than two steps away from something surprising.

Who decides when a disease or syndrome gets a name, a drug and its very own TV commercial? Host Ziya Tong takes a look at Restless Leg Syndrome, one of the newest diseases to hit the big time.

Did you know those little, yellow disposal cameras you buy at the local Safeway can also capture an image of a speeding bullet or a balloon the instant it's popped? Master crafter, Bre Pettis, shows host Ziya Tong how to hack the sluggish, 35mm camera into high-speed strobe.