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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...
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- Added: Sep 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Ever think to yourself, "California and Iceland sure have a lot in common"? Probably not. But if you dig beneath the surface, they both harbor lots...
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- Added: Sep 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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Review of a recent medical report on the prevalence of heavy metal contamination in Ayurvedic medicines sold on the internet.
- Added: Sep 20, 2008
- Length: 02:35
This piece reviews World Health Organization statements about lifestyle and health and discusses a study looking at how many Americans actually liv...
- Added: Sep 20, 2008
- Length: 03:04
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Tropical rainforests are home to a spectacular variety of frogs. This rich diversity of species helps drive conservation efforts in the tropics. T...
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- Added: Aug 20, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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The next time your significant other complains about your stinky socks, just tell them you're doing scientific research!
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- Added: Aug 20, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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Domestic tranquility has its place, but we all need a little walk on the wild side from time to time. And, apparently, the same goes for bees...
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- Added: Aug 20, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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The decomposition of tiny sea animals and plants that died hundreds of thousands of years ago created enormous natural gas deposits under the seafl...
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- Added: Aug 20, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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What do you do when the land you love is 'slip sliding away'? Luckily for folks in Louisiana, legislators and scientists are looking at several cre...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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University of Calgary biology professor, Peter Dunfield, has been to hell and back looking for ways to keep methane gas out of the atmosphere.
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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Are elephants going crazy? They've been destroying villages, crops, and attacking -- sometimes killing -- humans. It's happening at an increasing r...
- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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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: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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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: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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A shark that strolls along coral on its fins. A shrimp with enough muscle and speed to shatter the glass in an aquarium. These and 48 other never-b...
- Added: Jul 01, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Businessman Tom Herlihy has eight million employees -- eight million, hungry, little red worms, that is.
- Added: Jul 01, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Face it. We're energy junkies -- and our fix is getting more expensive.
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
While hydrogen is being touted as the environmentally friendly fuel of the future, a pair of Penn State engineers believe the future may be closer ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Maybe there's hope for troublemakers. Some creatures thrive in hot water...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Can we really harness ocean waves to make electricity? We might actually do more.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
It started off routinely enough -- at least in this day and age of genetic engineering and other laboratory efforts to "improve" upon nature.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Between rampant pollution and climate change, scientists say our oceans are ailing. But in order to correctly diagnose it, they've concluded they ...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Paleoanthropologist Holly Dunsworth believes evolution shows her how living things are connected.
- Added: May 27, 2008
- Length: 03:40
- Purchases: 3
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: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Earthworms rate pretty low on the "cuddly" scale for most people, but they do something exceedingly well: they eat all kinds of trash and turn it i...
- Added: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32