Engineering Innovation

Engineering Innovation

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Engineering Innovation episodes

  • Fake News Filter
    While political views differ, democracy depends upon a basic agreement about facts. Can technology help people sort truth from trash in social media?
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  • Nose for Infection
    Researchers are now exploring whether dogs can detect a person infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by smell. Trace odors have already been connected to other infections.
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  • Heart Cap
    Engineers are working on a removable heart pump that might one day let patients with end stage heart failure not only survive longer, but recover.
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  • Spotting Methane Leaks
    We mostly talk about carbon dioxide as the culprit of climate change. But methane is actually about a hundred times more powerful as a greenhouse gas.
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  • Spotting Methane Leaks
    We mostly talk about carbon dioxide as the culprit of climate change. But methane is actually about a hundred times more powerful as a greenhouse gas.
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  • Rebuilding Antarctica
    Antarctica is melting faster than expected…and a recent U-N report says, unless something is done, sea levels will likely rise higher by the end of this century than previous estimates. Some scientists say it may be time to think of radical solutions.
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  • Smart Stethoscope
    Diagnosing lung diseases ideally uses tools like chest X-rays and blood tests, but in times when the healthcare system is stressed the stethoscope may be the only tool.
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  • Smartphone Drug Delivery
    Brain implants can treat diseases ranging from Parkinson’s to depression, but patients must generally be tethered to machines. The key to a new solution might be in your pocket.
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  • Smartphone Drug Delivery
    Brain implants can treat diseases ranging from Parkinson’s to depression, but patients must generally be tethered to machines. The key to a new solution might be in your pocket.
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  • Mars Life Support
    Mars has a harsh environment. So, in anticipation of human travel there, engineers are working on ways to make parts of the planet more hospitable for life.
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