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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...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
The latest air pollution discovery reads like a murder mystery. Thousands died from strokes and heart attacks within 24 hours after jumps in partic...
- Added: Dec 27, 2012
- Length: 01:30
With wind turbines popping up all over the world, wind power is quickly becoming one of today’s most popular renewable energy sources. But in the m...
- Added: Dec 27, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Easing fossil fuel dependence involves more than energy-efficient cars and light bulbs. It also involves tofu.
- Added: Dec 27, 2012
- 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: Nov 29, 2012
- 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: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 01:31
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 hood!
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 01:30
The road to a sustainable future could soon be paved with green concrete. Okay, not as enchanting as a road paved with gold. But since some 27,000 ...
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Veterinarians made a house call on the world’s rarest cat recently to give it a high-tech medical examination.
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- 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: Nov 29, 2012
- 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: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University recently received a Presidential citation for developing an environmentally fri...
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 01:30
San Francisco’s Project Open Hand is in a lot of hot water these days. About 170,000 gallons a year, to be exact. And it’s heated by clean, non-po...
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 01:30
To get rid of fleas, there may be an alternative to poison, and that’s a simple vacuum cleaner.
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 01:30
It took ten years, but one of the country’s worst toxic waste sites is clean.
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 01:30
When it comes to selling solar cells, it pays to be cheap -- and thin.
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 01:30
The ethanol experts are at it again. Scientists in Brazil have found a way to boost biofuel production that’s naturally more attractive.
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- 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: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Green-collar workers aren’t just wind farm technicians and solar panel installers anymore. Increasingly, the U.S. labor force needs managers with s...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 01:30
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...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Remember that old-fashioned mode of transportation -- the trolley, or streetcar? It's making a comeback worldwide. From Albuquerque to Winston-Sale...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Okay, so you’re out in the clear waters of Hawaii and notice that algae are smothering the beautiful coral reefs just below the surface. What’s goi...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 01:30
A German company has developed a way to get more mileage out of junked cars. Of course they have to shred them to pieces first
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 01:30
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. But near Serpa [say err pa], in neighboring Portugal, the sun shines nearly all the time. This is why...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 01:30
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...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 01:30
