Engineering Innovation

Engineering Innovation

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Engineering Innovation episodes

  • Optimizing Online Shopping
    Now that we’re past Halloween, maybe you’re thinking about holiday shopping. If you do it online and want to reduce your carbon footprint, it’s actually good to buy early!
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  • Nose for Infection
    Thanks to “man’s best friend,” researchers are making progress on developing an artificial nose that can “smell” the presence of bacterial infection.
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  • Computer Creativity
    Computers are getting so close to human-like activities that it’s becoming spooky. That’s the topic of a new book called The Creativity Code.
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  • Wildfire Preventor
    As Virginia warns of a potentially bad wildfire season and dangerous fires continue to burn in California, engineers are developing a new tool to stop wildfires in their tracks.
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  • No Battery Camera
    A new technique might soon allow you to stream High Definition video from a camera so small it could be attached to your glasses.
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  • Smart Stethoscope
    Diagnosing lung diseases ideally uses tools like chest X-rays and blood tests, but in low-resource communities the stethoscope is often the only tool.
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  • Rebuilding Antarctica
    Antarctica is melting faster than expected, so a U-N report released this week 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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  • Rebuilding Antarctica
    Antarctica is melting faster than expected, so a U-N report released this week 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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  • Fake News Sieve
    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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  • Football Gloves
    It’s certainly not cold weather for today’s Redskins-Cowboys game, but you’ll probably see the receivers wearing gloves anyway.
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