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An ecosystem is like a finely woven garment -- pull out one thread, and the entire thing might come apart. An unraveling, of sorts, happened off th...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Fish don’t care about politics. And that’s terribly inconvenient for Scotland, Denmark and Iceland, where ocean mackerel, a large migratory cousin ...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Experts say that as population and water use rise, the world's fresh water supplies are shrinking. Then why don’t we desalinate more sea water and…...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Nature has a few tricks up her sleeve that can teach us a thing or two about national security.
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Watch out, Hollywood, there's a new starlet in town. It's the nation's first green gas station, called, Helios House. It's in Los Angeles – for now...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
"Unleaded, super unleaded, or tree fungus." It could be an option someday! Alternative fuel experts have discovered a microbial fungus from one Sou...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
The Book of Life: That book in heaven with the list of names? Well, biologists on earth have started their own version.
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
A frozen zoo...for all animals? Well, no one’s making the Panamanian golden frog shiver in its terrarium. Instead, this is a unique way that the Sa...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
We've all heard of individuals who go, "off the grid." You know, the folks who install solar panels or have their children ride stationary bicycles...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Some projects seem simple only to reveal a huge complication later on. I was hemming pants and cut one leg shorter than the other -- yeah, you get ...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Did you know rice doesn’t need to grow in water? In fact, the main reason for rice paddies is to prevent weeds.
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
If your friends call you an “early adopter," you’ll want to take note of MIT student Ben Gulak’s [Goo Lack] way-cool emission-free vehicle. It loo...
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- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
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Can a stock market tool save a species? Conservationists often struggle to project animal populations because they hinge on complicated, interdepen...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Golf balls away, my boys, golf balls away…For sailors at sea, seems there’s nothing more relaxing than hitting a few golf balls off the deck of a s...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Raising endangered birds...on a volcano? It has benefits -- or, so says Alan Lieberman, head of the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center, perched on H...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Imagine a conventional, gas-powered car, with no carbon emissions. I mean, absolutely zero. In the cartoon world, the only way to do that was a ban...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Ever wonder what jet fuel is made of? So do scientists from four universities working on a $7.5 million project funded by the Air Force and an airc...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Everything’s bigger in Texas. Even BOB! “BOB” stands for “Big ‘ol Battery.” The nickname conferred by locals in Presidio, Texas, to an experimenta...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
His name is Paul Stamets, but you can call him the Mushroom Man. Stamets is a “mycologist,” or mushroom expert. He lives on Washington State's Olym...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
After a forest fire, it’s common for salvage logging companies to clear out damaged trees. But taking the wood too soon may interrupt a beetle doin...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Ever been told you have feet of clay? How about feet of a beetle? Well now you can take that one as a compliment.
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Veterinarians at the San Diego Zoo who breed white rhinoceroses are finding themselves, well, on the horns of a dilemma. Their female white rhinos ...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
What is green and gold and read all over? Give up? It’s Southern California’s Santa Monica Public Library.
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Interest in developing new sources of renewable energy is on the rise, and scientists at Florida Atlantic University are going with the flow.
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Hydrogen fuel cells could make for a better car. Proponents say if we can get past the technology’s many hurdles, at a cost people can afford, they...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
