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Let’s hear it for “agrichar”! Why?
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Feb 27, 2014
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
When it comes to discovering sources of renewable energy, Penn State engineering professor Bruce Logan is outstanding in his field. A corn field, ...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Feb 27, 2014
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Contrary to what you might think, “green chemistry” is not used to make that “gooey, drippy, oozy, cold and clammy stuff” called “Green Slime” that...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Feb 27, 2014
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Crispy noodles: They're tasty, and…fuel-efficient! That is, if someday we're driving hydrogen-fueled cars.
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Feb 27, 2014
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Prairie tallgrass may soon make an electrifying comeback. Long considered one of the earth's most endangered ecosystems, today, prairie grass -- es...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Feb 27, 2014
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Have you ever bathed in paint? Canary yellow or baby blue? Well of course you haven’t! But almost three million Americans could have last year, sin...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Feb 27, 2014
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Tomorrow’s electric cars could get smarter, thanks to artificial intelligence and…well, military tanks.
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Feb 27, 2014
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
A low “carb” diet: Good for us, and good for the planet. No, not carbohydrates but low carbon, as in eating foods that minimally impact our planet’...
- Added: Feb 27, 2014
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 2
In New York City, at one public park, people may soon come for the tennis but stay for the toilets. That's because designs for new bathrooms at Riv...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
Call it a message in 12,500 bottles. Reclaimed plastic bottles, that is, used to build Plastiki, an ocean-going catamaran that crossed the Pacific,...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
What's "bugging" farmers these days? Greenbugs and grain aphids. They're tiny insects found nearly on every continent. And they destroy about 100 m...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
You've probably seen those daring para-surfers who use wind power to skip across the waves. Well, the gusts and gales that these terrestrial mammal...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
How many environmentalists does it take to screw in a passive light bulb? None! And that's the beauty of it...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Jan 26, 2014
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
In 1900, America used 80 million acres of grassland to feed the 30 million or so horses and mules pulling America's wagons, buggies, and carriages....
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Jan 26, 2014
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University recently received a Presidential citation for developing an environmentally fri...
- Added: Dec 30, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Cheetahs are fast, but time is catching up with them. Their numbers are dwindling due to a small gene pool that makes these graceful Big Cats vulne...
- Added: Dec 30, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Already declared the third smartest city in the U.S. by Forbes Magazine, Ann Arbor, Michigan recently had another bright idea. They decided to repl...
- Added: Dec 30, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Veterinarians made a house call on the world's rarest cat recently to give it a high-tech medical examination. It was one of thirty Amur leopards b...
- Added: Dec 30, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Remember that old-fashioned mode of transportation -- the trolley, or streetcar? It's making a comeback worldwide.
- Added: Dec 30, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Dutch researcher Jos Meeuwen would like to put in a plug for energy self-sufficiency. In fact, he'd like to put in a plug for everyone in his count...
- Added: Dec 30, 2013
- Length: 01:30
It took ten years, but one of the country's worst toxic waste sites is clean.
- Added: Dec 30, 2013
- Length: 01:30
When it comes to selling solar cells, it pays to be cheap -- and thin. At least that's what Professor Ken Durose at England's Durham University is ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Getting better gas mileage for the ride doesn't have to mean hydrogen fuel cells, or a fancy hybrid. One solution already exists right under the ho...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Can you imagine a world without tuna? No more, "Chicken of the Sea?" Believe it or not, most tuna species have been heavily fished, some almost to ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they're ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
