December 27, 1996

VITAL SIGNS MONITOR

The radar gun of health care–the vital signs monitor, can measure your heart and breathing rates from hundreds of feet away.

December 26, 1996

DENIM RECYCLING — Applications

Waste denim can now be recycled into not just new clothing, but also paper, and building insulation.

December 25, 1996

DENIM RECYCLING

Recycling denim can save millions of pounds of waste fabric from the landfill every year.

December 20, 1996

FISH SCALE FERTILIZER — It’s Chicken Feed

Farmers in Senegal are improving their country’s economy, by feeding fish scales to their chickens.

December 19, 1996

FISH SCALE FERTILIZER

Fish, the staple food of Senegal, is also becoming an important agricultural resource.

December 16, 1996

LANDFILL GENERATOR — Not Just Garbage

Fuel cell technology can not only create electricity from a landfill, but it might also change the our power generating system around the country.

December 13, 1996

LANDFILL GENERATOR — Powering up

We can now recycle garbage that’s all ready been thrown away, by turning it into energy.

December 10, 1996

BIO-ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY — Tissue Engineering

Instead of receiving an organ transplanted from a human donor, how about just having one made for you?

December 9, 1996

BIO-ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY — Healthier Than Dialysis

By combining living cells with synthetic material, the bio-artificial kidney may someday replace all the functions of a failed organ.

December 6, 1996

BIO-ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY

To free kidney failure patients from the dialysis machine, scientists have designed a part biological, part artificial kidney.

December 3, 1996

COMPUTER VIRUSES — The Virus Hunters

Researchers at IBM are learning how to defeat computer viruses, from the inside out.

December 2, 1996

COMPUTER VIRUSES — Digital Immunity

In an attempt to stop infections of computer viruses, scientists are creating an immune system for cyberspace.