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Protecting our Water Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1796 Date: February 12, 2009 Waterways across our nation have pollution problems that threaten the health of the marine and plant life that live within them. This episode focus...

Vitamin D: The New Old Natural Wonder Drug Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 4733 Date: February 12, 2009 Professor Hector F. DeLuca’s laboratory has been devoted to the understanding of metabolism and mechanism of action of vitamins A and D. Sponsored ...

Will the Internet Change Humanity? (102) Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1677 Date: February 12, 2009 Experts in public policy, technology and media gather to discuss the full and real impact of the Internet and the information age on humans and hu...

Microbes - Friend or Foe? (305) Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1602 Date: February 12, 2009 Bacteria have become resistant to our antibiotics. Viruses evolve with blinding speed. Prions may lurk in our meat. Anthrax is put into our mail. S...

The Changing Arctic Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3440 Date: February 12, 2009 Over the last 10 to 20 years, distinctive climate changes have occurred, including a shift in Arctic Ocean circulation, decreased sea ice extent a...

The Changing Arctic Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3440 Date: February 12, 2009 Over the last 10 to 20 years, distinctive climate changes have occurred, including a shift in Arctic Ocean circulation, decreased sea ice extent a...

Search-and-Rescue Robots Practice Emergency Response to Simulated Earthquake Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 194 Date: February 12, 2009 A team from the University of South Florida’s Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) were on the scene just after the 9/11 disaster a...

Storytelling in Science: Honesty, Imagination and Ethics Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3510 Date: February 12, 2009 This lecture addresses the relationship, if any, between ethics and science.  Storytelling in science, more important than...

Storytelling in Science: Honesty, Imagination and Ethics Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3510 Date: February 12, 2009 This lecture addresses the relationship, if any, between ethics and science.  Storytelling in science, more important than usually...

Optoelectronics Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3480 Date: February 12, 2009 Larry Dalton, inventor of the "opto-chip," discusses his research into the use of the next level electro-optic materials. These materials can be u...

Probing Genes and Genomes Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3476 Date: February 12, 2009 New ways of creating molecules in the lab are energizing the collaboration between chemistry and biology. Dr. Stuart Schreiber examines how technol...

Microbe Hunters: Tracking Infectious Agents Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3488 Date: February 12, 2009 How does a tiny virus wreak havoc on the human body to create modern-day scourges such as AIDS? Noted virologist and AIDS expert Dr. Donald Ganem o...

The Certified Consulting Meteorologist 50th Anniversary Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1710 Date: February 12, 2009 At least 30 percent of the U.S. economy hinges on weather and climate. Agriculture, business, industry and government all rely on today’s advancin...

Stories From the Field: Fresh Market Fruit & Vegetables, Part 2 Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 670 Date: February 12, 2009 By monitoring insect activity, weather, and early warning signs of disease — and only using pesticides when necessary -- apple growers u...

On the Scale and Unity of Life from Cells to Cities Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3417 Date: February 12, 2009 Life is the most complex phenomenon in the universe. Yet, remarkably, many of its most complex attributes scale with size in a surprisingly simple...

Preventing HIV & Other STIs Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3444 Date: February 12, 2009 HIV continues to infect 14,000 people a day worldwide despite a variety of prevention efforts. In the United States, the rate of infections has ho...

Sea of Microbes Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3490 Date: February 12, 2009 The biology of our oceans is dominated by microbes too small to be seen with the naked eye. One such group, phytoplankton, help remove the greenho...

Merging Computers and Biology - Conceptually and Physically / The Wellspring of Discovery Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3444 Date: February 12, 2009 New initiatives at NSF focus on merging computer science and biology—a "Mathematical Biology Training Grant," a KDI initiative on biological/engine...

Today’s World Transformed...and a Look into the Future Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 4189 Date: February 12, 2009 Along with the development of the telephone, the automobile and the transistor, the Internet is among a handful of world-changing advances that sh...

The Pacific Northwest: Disaster Zone Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1710 Date: February 12, 2009 Throughout its history, the Pacific Northwest has been battered by devastating earthquakes, catastrophic volcanic eruptions, massive tsunamis and ...

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