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The Power Suit is back. Yep. Thanks to scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. But goodbye polyester: These suits use molecular-sized ...
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- Added: May 30, 2011
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Engineers at Ohio State University are cracking up over a new way of separating gasses. And they've possibly created a new process to produce a cle...
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- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Paper book or e-reader? Which is greener? Digital readers may save trees. But are they better environmentally overall than good ol’ book books?
- Added: Feb 23, 2011
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
How now, brown cow? With digestive fluid you say? Along with some hay? That’s how researchers are generating electricity at the University of Ohio ...
- Added: Feb 22, 2011
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Believe it or not, sometimes, it’s a good idea to be “as cold as ice.” Take, for example, the arctic ground squirrel. He's a creature that knows a ...
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- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Are you worried about global warming? Well, here’s an idea. How about rocketing one trillion miniature umbrellas into orbit somewhere between us ...
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- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
You think gas is expensive? What about the price of platinum? Believe it or not, that’s one of the things the automotive industry is looking at be...
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- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is killing fire ants using a method that sounds like it was inspired by the movie Alien.
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- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Garbage and noise. Sounds like the latest rock group. But no, turns out the two are much more useful. In fact, garbage and noise are actually being...
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- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Is it ‘hip,’ or ‘cool,’ to be environmentally sustainable? That's a question that some of the biggest companies are asking about the world's most p...
- Added: Nov 17, 2010
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 3
Why be boring and plant your garden in the ground when there’s a whole world of gardening possibilities up on the roof?
- Added: Nov 17, 2010
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 3
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...
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- Added: Oct 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Why build a house when you can grow one? So says sustainable building designers at Britain's University of Bath. They recently created a home from ...
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- Added: Oct 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
We live on a flammable planet! Consider our forests: Vegetation that dries out seasonally. And our atmosphere? Oxygen! Add lightening strikes, volc...
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- Added: Oct 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
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...
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- Added: Oct 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to. A research team at the University of Warwick, England, recently discovered a natura...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? Yep. They might be just around the corner -- no kidding!
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
On top of everything else ailing Mother Earth these days, apparently she’s got gas. Lots of it. Specifically, carbon dioxide.
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- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Medieval alchemy -- you’ve seen it in the movies: A wizard-like figure hovers over a glowing vat adding mysterious ingredients in his quest to turn...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
It’s no news to anyone that Hurricanes’ can be devastating. Luckily, hurricane forecasting has improved a lot over the years. We owe much of that i...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Here’s a conundrum. What do you do with three thousand tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?!
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- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Okay -- so it sounds pretty disgusting when you first hear about it. But, well, here it goes. We may be able to get drinking water from treated sew...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Over the years, treasure maps have been of such interest that the Library of Congress devoted a volume to them! Now, a new kind of map is proving t...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
The biggest power plant on earth is high in the sky -- it’s the sun. But, we only get one percent of our energy from it because it typically costs...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
I don’t know if Santa Claus ever collected seeds, but one of his neighbors sure does. About 200 miles from the North Pole, the United States is bu...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
