Innovation Now

Innovation Now

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Innovation Now episodes

  • It Tastes Like Bacon!
    To both health conscious eaters and environmentalists alike, seaweed is an exciting crop. It thrives in waters that humans are pumping full of pollutants, and now – it tastes like bacon!
    2 min
  • Silent Wings
    When searching for ways to reduce the noise associated with wind turbines, and airplanes, researchers have turned to the experts in nature – the owl.
    2 min
  • Where the Rubber Meets the Road
    Did you know that the friction created between the ground and the rolling tires on a car consumes almost 10 percent of the car’s fuel? Find out how engineers plan to put that friction to work to save energy rather than burn it.
    2 min
  • Getting Under the Hood of an Asteroid
    Although we have learned much about objects in space, we still have many questions about what is going on beneath these rocky surfaces. And a NASA funded project might just help us get under the hood of an asteroid.
    2 min
  • Leap Seconds
    86,400 seconds in a day. But on June 30, 2015, a leap second was added to our clocks in order to keep our timekeeping strategies consistent.
    2 min

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Innovation Now is a daily 90-second radio series and podcast that gives listeners a front row seat to hear compelling stories of revolutionary ideas, emerging technologies and the people behind the…

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