Engineering Innovation

Engineering Innovation

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Engineering Innovation episodes

  • Lab Grown Meat
    What if a nice steak didn?t require raising and butchering livestock? For the first time, a scientific journal paper makes the case that it might soon be possible.
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  • Pandemic Plans
    The Centers for Disease Control is asking county health departments to prepare for a pandemic using University of Maryland flu clinic planning software that we first reported on last fall.
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  • The Anti-Camera
    It?s a paparazzi?s nightmare ? technologies that can prevent digital cameras from taking useable pictures.
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  • Nano Shield
    Even if soldiers wear body armor, their limbs are often left unprotected from knives or bomb shrapnel.
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  • Plasma Pencil
    Plasma?nature displays it in the Northern Lights, people in neon signs. Now a Virginia engineer hopes to use plasma for killing germs on your body.
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  • CIA Blogs and Wikis
    You?ve probably web-surfed for Blogs on the current ?buzz?or found facts using so-called Wikis, like Wikipedia. Classified versions are now beginning to help the intelligence community.
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  • Invisible Objects
    In another case of science fiction merging with reality, engineers are devising a way to make you?or even huge buildings?invisible.
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  • Clues in the Numbers?
    If the National Security Agency is collecting vast amounts of telephone call data, how can they hope to find terrorists amongst all those numbers?
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  • Presidential Helicopter
    Test versions of a new Presidential helicopter are rolling off the assembly line, gearing up for a new era of South Lawn photo-ops in a few years.
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