Month: October 1995
Pulse of the Planet Daily Audio
HYBRID ELECTRICITY GENERATOR-Third World Use
A new invention may be able to bring electricity to rural villages cleanly and efficiently.
October 30, 1995HYBRID ELECTRICITY GENERATOR
This solar energy system can provide electricity even when the sun goes down.
October 27, 1995DENTAL FILLINGS – Longer Lasting
Using plastic and ceramic materials, scientists are developing dental fillings that can last a lifetime.
October 26, 1995SMART DENTAL FILLINGS
In the future, your fillings may be able to tell you when its time to brush.
October 25, 1995TORNADO RESEARCH – What We Know
Can we accurately predict tornadoes?
October 24, 1995TORNADO RESEARCH
The more we learn about tornadoes, the less we know about them.
October 23, 1995TORNADO CHASERS
Violent storms with wind speeds over 150 miles per hour are normal working conditions for this group of scientists.
October 20, 1995FUZZY LOGIC – Sneaking Into Our Lives
Are you ready to accept a technology that uses “fuzzy†logic?
October 19, 1995FUZZY LOGIC
A new computer processing technology may lead to products that are more responsive to the real world.
October 18, 1995MEGAPLANES-A New Flying Experience
Aerospace Engineers are designing planes that can hold up to 800 people.
October 17, 1995MEGAPLANES
In the future, airline passengers may be seated in the wings.
October 16, 1995ROBOTUNA-Applications
This new ocean reseach vessel is underwater and undercover.
October 13, 1995ROBOTUNA
Underwater vehicles may be made more efficient by designing them to look and move like fish.
October 12, 1995DNA COMPUTER-The Future
Computers that use genetic material to process information may be capable of solving problems that would take centuries on today’s fastest supercomputers.
October 11, 1995DNA COMPUTER-Memory
Scientists envision a computer that can store the equivalent memory of a million hard drives — all in a test tube of DNA.
October 10, 1995DNA COMPUTER
Scientists hope to use DNA, the genetic material found in every living organism, to create an ultra-powerful computer.
October 9, 1995ENGINEERED COFFEE
Caffeine highs and lows got you down? Now there’s a new type of coffee that will keep your energy steady all day.
October 6, 1995THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING-The Replicator
Don’t feed paper into this computer printer – just load it up with liquid plastic, and it’ll create virtually any kind of solid object .
October 5, 1995THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING- Medical Uses
With an x-ray and some new computer hardware, surgeons can “print out†models of their patients’ organs.
October 4, 1995THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING
A new type of computer printer is allowing engineers to take their designs off the drawing board and bring them into three dimensional reality.
October 3, 1995LIQUID ARCHITECTURE-The $15,000 Villa
In the future, houses made out of water would cost only a fraction of what their wooden counterparts go for today.
October 2, 1995LIQUID ARCHITECTURE-An Organic Structure
It may be possible to build a home which functions like a living organism.