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What's "bugging" farmers these days? Greenbugs and grain aphids, tiny insects found nearly on every continent. And they destroy about a hundred mi...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- 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: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
When it comes to selling solar cells, it pays to be cheap -- and thin.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
In the summer, an air conditioner can be a necessity. However, cooling down a house can be expensive, but there are ways to reduce the cost.
- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
As oil prices rise and supplies decline, interest in wind energy is soaring. But finding sites for wind farms hasn't been a breeze.
- Added: Jul 01, 2008
- Length: 01:30
There are plans underway to eliminate waste in our nation's park -- one cup at a time.
- Added: Jul 01, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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: Jun 30, 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
What to do you get after you empty a barrel of fermented beer or whiskey? Besides a hangover, that is...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
We may be able to get drinking water from treated sewage -- and water shortages could eventually force us to rely on this option.
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- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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Researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University recently received a Presidential citation for developing an environmentally fri...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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
The ethanol experts are at it again. Scientists in Brazil have found a way to boost biofuel production that's naturally more attractive.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
An unusual banquet is underway in North Carolina -- and the worms are going hog wild.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Remember that old-fashioned mode of transportation -- the trolley, or streetcar -- it's making a comeback worldwide.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Conserving energy and reducing pollution is as easy as changing a light bulb.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Most of us have heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and a major contributor to global warming...is there a way to capture the carbon bef...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:26
Here's a conundrum. What do you do with 3000 tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?!
- 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
Together with Sandia National Labs, engineers from Knight and Carver of San Diego have added a new twist to wind turbines used for generating elect...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:17
Already declared the third smartest city in the U.S. by Forbes Magazine, Ann Arbor, Michigan recently had another bright idea. They decided to rep...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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
