Month: December 1996
Pulse of the Planet Daily Audio
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, 1996DENIM RECYCLING — Applications
Waste denim can now be recycled into not just new clothing, but also paper, and building insulation.
December 25, 1996DENIM RECYCLING
Recycling denim can save millions of pounds of waste fabric from the landfill every year.
December 20, 1996FISH SCALE FERTILIZER — It’s Chicken Feed
Farmers in Senegal are improving their country’s economy, by feeding fish scales to their chickens.
December 19, 1996FISH SCALE FERTILIZER
Fish, the staple food of Senegal, is also becoming an important agricultural resource.
December 16, 1996LANDFILL 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, 1996LANDFILL GENERATOR — Powering up
We can now recycle garbage that’s all ready been thrown away, by turning it into energy.
December 10, 1996BIO-ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY — Tissue Engineering
Instead of receiving an organ transplanted from a human donor, how about just having one made for you?
December 9, 1996BIO-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, 1996BIO-ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY
To free kidney failure patients from the dialysis machine, scientists have designed a part biological, part artificial kidney.
December 3, 1996COMPUTER VIRUSES — The Virus Hunters
Researchers at IBM are learning how to defeat computer viruses, from the inside out.
December 2, 1996COMPUTER VIRUSES — Digital Immunity
In an attempt to stop infections of computer viruses, scientists are creating an immune system for cyberspace.