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Crystal Fire is a tale of the human factors in technology; the pride and jealousies coupled with scientific and economic aspiration that led to the creation of modern microelectronics and ignited the greatest technological explosion in history.

Michael Riordan, author and science historian, Guido Tonelli, a professor at the University of Pisa in Italy, and Sau Lan Wu, a professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, report on how after a three-decade search, scientists appear to have found the elusive particle.

"Penalize Companies That Export Jobs" is from the April 10, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Michael Riordan and narrated by Kristi Burns.