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Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions — 103 episodes
Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: New nanomaterial detects and neutralizes explosives
Our Sustainable Future: A greener process for a key ingredient used to make paint, diapers, and other products
Promoting Public Health: High vitamin-D bread could help solve widespread insufficiency problem
Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Don’t blame The Pill for estrogen in drinking water
Future Cities: The right choices on transportation can shrink your own personal carbon footprint
Combating Disease: Paper-based device could bring medical testing to remote locales
Confronting Climate Change: Stop-Gap Measures to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Sediment trapped behind dams makes them ‘hot spots’ for greenhouse gas emissions
Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Improving detection of radioactive material in nuclear waste water
Combating Disease: Improved smartphone microscope brings single-virus detection to remote locations
Our sustainable future: A greener, more sustainable source of ingredients for widely used plastics
Confronting Climate Change - Stop-Gap Measures to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Big environmental footprints: 21 percent of homes account for 50 percent of greenhouse gas emissions
Our Sustainable Future: An environmentally friendly battery made from wood
Combating Disease: First dual-action compound kills cancer cells, stops them from spreading
New Fuels – Biofuels: Duckweed as a cost-competitive raw material for biofuel production
Our Sustainable Future: Cotton offers a new ecologically friendly way to clean up oil spills
Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Solar-powered nanofilters pump in antibiotics to clean contaminated water
Confronting Climate Change: The Quest for Permanent Solutions: A milestone for new carbon-dioxide capture/clean coal technology
Supplying Safe Drinking Water: The first caffeine-‘addicted’ bacteria
Promoting Public Health: Six in 10 people worldwide lack access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation
Our sustainable future: First mobile app green chemistry fosters sustainable manufacturing of medicines
Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Ancient “Egyptian blue” pigment points to new telecommunications, security ink technology
Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Toward a better cyanide antidote for terrorist attacks and other mass casualty events
Providing nutritious foods: A new, super-nutritious puffed rice for breakfast cereals and snacks
Our Sustainable Future: New twist on using biomass for cosmetic, personal care and antioxidant-containing products
Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Boosting the sensitivity of airport security screening
Combating Disease: Leaves of carob tree, source of chocolate substitute, fight virulent food-poisoning bacteria
Confronting Climate Change: Stop-Gap Measures to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Speed limits on cargo ships could reduce their pollutants by more than half
Supplying Safe Drinking Water: New analysis of drinking water-related gastrointestinal illness
Our Sustainable Future: White rot fungus boosts ethanol production from corn stalks, cobs and leaves
Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Leveraging bacteria in drinking water to benefit consumers
New fuels: The sun and more: Transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity
New Fuels: The Sun and More: Toward super-size wind turbines: Bigger wind turbines do make greener electricity
Promoting Public Health: Green plants reduce pollution on city streets up to eight times more than previously believed
Combating Disease: A non-antibiotic approach for treating urinary tract infections
Our Sustainable Future: Rivers flowing into the sea offer vast potential as electricity source
Promoting Public Health: New, inexpensive paper-based diabetes test ideal for developing countries
Our Sustainable Future: Ancient effect harnessed to produce electricity from waste heat
New Fuels - Biofuels: Real-life scientific tail of the first “electrified snail”
New Fuels - Biofuels: Meeting biofuel production targets could change agricultural landscape
Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Killer silk - Making silk fibers that kill anthrax and other microbes in minutes
Providing Nutritious Foods: Strong scientific evidence that eating berries benefits the brain
Combating Disease: Adapting personal glucose monitors to detect DNA
Providing Safe Food: Children may have highest exposure to titanium dioxide nanoparticles
New Fuels: Biofuels - Biofuel cell generates electricity when implanted in False Death’s Head Cockroach
Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: New test could help track down and prosecute terrorists who use nerve gas and other agents
Supplying Safe Drinking Water: “Miracle tree” substance produces clean drinking water inexpensively and sustainably
Our Sustainable Future: Peatland carbon storage is stabilized against catastrophic release of carbon
Combating Disease: Turning up the heat to kill cancer cells: “The Lance Armstrong effect”
Promoting Public Health: Household washing machines are a source of potentially harmful ocean “microplastic” pollution
Promoting Public Health: Recycling thermal cash register receipts contaminates paper products with BPA
Developing New Sources of Energy: New type of solar cell retains high efficiency for long periods
Combating Disease: Genetically-engineered spider silk for gene therapy
New Fuels Biofuels: Alligator fat as a new source of biodiesel fuel
Providing Safe Foods: Flooding of farmland does not increase levels of potentially harmful flame retardants in milk
Confronting Climate Change: Using the energy in oil shale without releasing carbon dioxide in a greenhouse world
Our Sustainable Future: A “green grid” for delivering solar and wind-based electricity
Promoting Public Health: Toward new medication for chronic brain diseases
Developing New Sources of Energy: Self-powered nanogenerator uses body movements to generate electricity, transmit data wirelessly
Our Sustainable Future: “Green” cars made from pineapples and bananas
Combating Disease: New rapid diagnostic test for MRSA Superbugs
Promoting Public health: Toward a vaccine for methamphetamine abuse
Providing Safe Foods: Safety of nanoparticles in food crops is still unclear
Developing New Materials: Using banana peels to purify water
Our Sustainable Future: Biodegradable plastic from milk and clay
Promoting Public Health: Black rice bran may fight inflammation
Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Electrified nano filter promises to cut costs for clean drinking water
Our Sustainable Future: Saving energy by reducing food waste
In the green of health: Just five minutes of green exercise optimal for good mental health
Future Cities: Nanotechnology promises more sustainable buildings, bridges, and other structures
Developing new sources of energy: Producing cost-effective biodiesel from sewage sludge
Our Sustainable Future: “Smart” roofs that can save energy
Promoting Public Health: Dusting off a hidden challenge
Promoting Public Health: Toward a fast, accurate urine test for pneumonia
New fuels: Biofuels: A more economical process for making ethanol from non-food sources
Our Sustainable Future: Roadmap for preserving the planet
Our Sustainable Future: Decomposing BPA-containing plastic using a “fungus among us”
Combating Disease: Coal from mass extinction era linked to lung cancer mystery
Providing Safe Foods: Heat forms potentially harmful substance in high-fructose corn syrup
New Fuels: An “artificial leaf” for making solar-energy
Promoting Public Health: Saving lives with the first dry powder inhalable vaccine for measles
Providing safe foods: “Killer spices” provide eco-friendly pesticides for organic fruits and veggies
Promoting Public Health: Sandcastle worm’s secrets could yield new medical adhesive
Confronting Climate Change: “Green” roofs can help fight global warming
Confronting Climate Change: Smoke to soak up future oil spills
Promoting Public Health: Redefining DNA: Darwin from the atom up
Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Targeting Ricin
Our Sustainable Future: Small generator, big applications
Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: New Solutions 2009
Combating Disease: New Solutions 2009 - Much more than pasta and potatoes
Confronting Climate Change: The Quest for Permanent Solutions
Providing Safe Foods: New Solutions 2009
Episode 12 – Promoting Public Health
Episode 11 – Providing Safe Food (Part 2 of 2)
Episode 10 – Providing Safe Food (Part 1 of 2)
Episode 9 – New Fuels (Part 2 of 2)
Episode 8 – New Fuels (Part 1 of 2)
Episode 7 – Combating Disease
Episode 6 – Promoting Personal Safety and National Security
Episode 5 – Our Sustainable Future
Episode 4 – Confronting Climate Change (Part 2): The quest for permanent solutions
Episode 3 – Confronting Climate Change (Part 1): Stopgap measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Episode 2 – The Crisis in Clean Water (Part 2): Water Desalination
Episode 1 – The Crisis in Clean Water (Part 1): Water Purification