Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions
Taking inspiration from trees, scientists have developed a battery made from a sliver of wood coated with tin that shows promise for becoming a tiny, long-lasting, efficient and environmentally friendly energy source. Their report on the device — 1,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper — appears in the journal Nano Letters.Podcasts
Future Cities: The right choices on transportation can shrink your own personal carbon footprint
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Dont blame The Pill for estrogen in drinking water
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Public Health: High vitamin-D bread could help solve widespread insufficiency problem
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Confronting Climate Change: Using the energy in oil shale without releasing carbon dioxide in a greenhouse world
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Providing Safe Foods: Flooding of farmland does not increase levels of potentially harmful flame retardants in milk
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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New Fuels Biofuels: Alligator fat as a new source of biodiesel fuel
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Combating Disease: Genetically-engineered spider silk for gene therapy
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Developing New Sources of Energy: New type of solar cell retains high efficiency for long periods
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Public Health: Recycling thermal cash register receipts contaminates paper products with BPA
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Public Health: Household washing machines are a source of potentially harmful ocean microplastic pollution
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Combating Disease: Turning up the heat to kill cancer cells: The Lance Armstrong effect
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: Peatland carbon storage is stabilized against catastrophic release of carbon
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Miracle tree substance produces clean drinking water inexpensively and sustainably
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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New Fuels: Biofuels - Biofuel cell generates electricity when implanted in False Deaths Head Cockroach
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Providing Safe Food: Children may have highest exposure to titanium dioxide nanoparticles
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Combating Disease: Adapting personal glucose monitors to detect DNA
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Providing Nutritious Foods: Strong scientific evidence that eating berries benefits the brain
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Killer silk - Making silk fibers that kill anthrax and other microbes in minutes
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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New Fuels - Biofuels: Meeting biofuel production targets could change agricultural landscape
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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New Fuels - Biofuels: Real-life scientific tail of the first electrified snail
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: Ancient effect harnessed to produce electricity from waste heat
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Public Health: New, inexpensive paper-based diabetes test ideal for developing countries
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: Rivers flowing into the sea offer vast potential as electricity source
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Combating Disease: A non-antibiotic approach for treating urinary tract infections
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Public Health: Green plants reduce pollution on city streets up to eight times more than previously believed
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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New Fuels: The Sun and More: Toward super-size wind turbines: Bigger wind turbines do make greener electricity
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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New fuels: The sun and more: Transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Leveraging bacteria in drinking water to benefit consumers
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: White rot fungus boosts ethanol production from corn stalks, cobs and leaves
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Supplying Safe Drinking Water: New analysis of drinking water-related gastrointestinal illness
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Confronting Climate Change: Stop-Gap Measures to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Speed limits on cargo ships could reduce their pollutants by more than half
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Combating Disease: Leaves of carob tree, source of chocolate substitute, fight virulent food-poisoning bacteria
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Boosting the sensitivity of airport security screening
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: New twist on using biomass for cosmetic, personal care and antioxidant-containing products
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Providing nutritious foods: A new, super-nutritious puffed rice for breakfast cereals and snacks
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Toward a better cyanide antidote for terrorist attacks and other mass casualty events
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Ancient Egyptian blue pigment points to new telecommunications, security ink technology
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our sustainable future: First mobile app green chemistry fosters sustainable manufacturing of medicines
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Public Health: Six in 10 people worldwide lack access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Supplying Safe Drinking Water: The first caffeine-addicted bacteria
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Solar-powered nanofilters pump in antibiotics to clean contaminated water
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: Cotton offers a new ecologically friendly way to clean up oil spills
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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New Fuels Biofuels: Duckweed as a cost-competitive raw material for biofuel production
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Combating Disease: First dual-action compound kills cancer cells, stops them from spreading
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: An environmentally friendly battery made from wood
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our sustainable future: A greener, more sustainable source of ingredients for widely used plastics
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Combating Disease: Improved smartphone microscope brings single-virus detection to remote locations
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Improving detection of radioactive material in nuclear waste water
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Combating Disease: Paper-based device could bring medical testing to remote locales
Published: June 22, 2024, 6:02 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Public health: Toward a vaccine for methamphetamine abuse
Published: Sept. 11, 2011, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Providing Safe Foods: Safety of nanoparticles in food crops is still unclear
Published: Aug. 22, 2011, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Developing New Materials: Using banana peels to purify water
Published: Aug. 8, 2011, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: A green grid for delivering solar and wind-based electricity
Published: July 25, 2011, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Public Health: Toward new medication for chronic brain diseases
Published: July 11, 2011, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Developing New Sources of Energy: Self-powered nanogenerator uses body movements to generate electricity, transmit data wirelessly
Published: June 27, 2011, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: Green cars made from pineapples and bananas
Published: June 13, 2011, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Combating Disease: New rapid diagnostic test for MRSA Superbugs
Published: May 23, 2011, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: A greener process for a key ingredient used to make paint, diapers, and other products
Published: April 25, 2011, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: Biodegradable plastic from milk and clay
Published: Jan. 12, 2011, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Public Health: Black rice bran may fight inflammation
Published: Nov. 22, 2010, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Electrified nano filter promises to cut costs for clean drinking water
Published: Nov. 15, 2010, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: Saving energy by reducing food waste
Published: Oct. 27, 2010, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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In the green of health: Just five minutes of green exercise optimal for good mental health
Published: Oct. 20, 2010, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Future Cities: Nanotechnology promises more sustainable buildings, bridges, and other structures
Published: Sept. 7, 2010, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Developing new sources of energy: Producing cost-effective biodiesel from sewage sludge
Published: Aug. 31, 2010, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: Smart roofs that can save energy
Published: Aug. 26, 2010, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Public Health: Dusting off a hidden challenge
Published: July 19, 2010, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Public Health: Toward a fast, accurate urine test for pneumonia
Published: June 24, 2010, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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New fuels: Biofuels: A more economical process for making ethanol from non-food sources
Published: June 10, 2010, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: Roadmap for preserving the planet
Published: May 28, 2010, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: Decomposing BPA-containing plastic using a fungus among us
Published: May 14, 2010, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Combating Disease: Coal from mass extinction era linked to lung cancer mystery
Published: April 23, 2010, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Providing Safe Foods: Heat forms potentially harmful substance in high-fructose corn syrup
Published: Jan. 4, 2010, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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New Fuels: An artificial leaf for making solar-energy
Published: Dec. 4, 2009, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Public Health: Saving lives with the first dry powder inhalable vaccine for measles
Published: Nov. 20, 2009, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Providing safe foods: Killer spices provide eco-friendly pesticides for organic fruits and veggies
Published: Nov. 11, 2009, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Public Health: Sandcastle worms secrets could yield new medical adhesive
Published: Oct. 26, 2009, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Confronting Climate Change: Green roofs can help fight global warming
Published: Oct. 15, 2009, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Confronting Climate Change: Smoke to soak up future oil spills
Published: Aug. 12, 2009, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Public Health: Redefining DNA: Darwin from the atom up
Published: July 22, 2009, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Targeting Ricin
Published: June 10, 2009, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Our Sustainable Future: Small generator, big applications
Published: May 20, 2009, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: New Solutions 2009
Published: April 27, 2009, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Combating Disease: New Solutions 2009 - Much more than pasta and potatoes
Published: April 6, 2009, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Confronting Climate Change: The Quest for Permanent Solutions
Published: Feb. 23, 2009, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Providing Safe Foods: New Solutions 2009
Published: Feb. 9, 2009, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Episode 11 Providing Safe Food (Part 2 of 2)
Published: Nov. 23, 2008, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Episode 10 Providing Safe Food (Part 1 of 2)
Published: Nov. 13, 2008, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Episode 6 Promoting Personal Safety and National Security
Published: Sept. 11, 2008, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Episode 4 Confronting Climate Change (Part 2): The quest for permanent solutions
Published: Aug. 6, 2008, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Episode 3 Confronting Climate Change (Part 1): Stopgap measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Published: July 23, 2008, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Episode 2 The Crisis in Clean Water (Part 2): Water Desalination
Published: July 14, 2008, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Episode 1 The Crisis in Clean Water (Part 1): Water Purification
Published: June 16, 2008, 2 p.m.Duration: N/A
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