Techknow - Season 3 / Year 2014

Season 3 / Year 2014

Episodes

3D Printing/Texas Tech/Vertical Farms

Tornado Lab
Working to design structures that can withstand the fatal winds of an EF5 tornado.

Phil's Excellent Adventure
Naturalist Phil Torres investigates a spider mystery in the Peruvian Amazon.

DNA Testing at Home

Fountain of Youth?

Lung in a Box
A high-tech box that keeps lungs breathing outside the human body.

Space Archaeology

Inside the CSI

The Frozen Zoo

Medical Marijuana for Kids

Designer Drugs: Legal & Lethal

Hollywood Resurrection

Eyes in the Sky

Facial recognition, faux eggs, and solar energy

Survivors: Help in a Heartbeat

Smoking out the Truth: E-cigarettes Exposed

Sniffing Out Cancer

The Amazing Spider Web

Frozen: Operation IceBridge

Science Slumber Party

Cancer Goggles
Surgeons use special goggles developed for nocturnal military operations to help locate cancer cells during operations.

Earthquake Warning
Early warning technology for earthquakes that could limit disaster and save lives.

The Real Big Bang Theory
Caltech's cutting edge research; searching for a cure in space; wind turbines inspired by jellyfish.

Sharks
Researchers divulge secrets of the mysterious and misjudged tiger shark.

Talking Cars
New technologies that allow vehicles to ``talk'' to each other.

Bionic Eye
Breakthrough surgery and a bionic eye may restore a blind woman's vision.

Cord Blood
Doctors try to heal a baby's brain through umbilical cord blood infusion.

Fire Starters
U.S. Forestry Services' effort to fight raging wildfires in the western states by starting new fires.

Brain Hack
Do-it-yourself brain stimulation.

The Car of the Future
The latest enhancements in vehicle technology, from cars that talk to each other to cars that drive without a driver.

Hydrogen-Powered Toyota

The New Dustbowl
Scientists attempt to use technology to fight drought in America's largest produce-growing region, California.

Football's Green Game
A look at the San Francisco 49ers new environmentally friendly football stadium, including solar panels and recycled water.

Animal Crime Scene Investigators
Scientists working to capture smugglers and poachers of endangered animals around the world from the world's only forensics lab set up for this purpose.

Farms without Fields
Indoor farms are created in abandoned warehouses to aid in the relief of world hunger.

Frack Quakes
Earthquakes are increasing in frequency in unusual places; whether or not the fracking boom is causing earthquakes in states such as Oklahoma, Colorado and Texas.
Recently Updated Shows

MasterChef
Three celebrated food experts put the latest group of contestants through a series of challenging elimination rounds and turn one home cook into a culinary master.

Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service
Restaurateurs who are looking for a quick fix or social media glow-up are in for the surprise of their lives when famed culinary titan Gordon Ramsay trades his signature chef knives for a state-of-the-art surveillance vehicle and cutting-edge spyware in FOX's all-new unscripted series, Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service. In a Gordon Ramsay series first, Chef Ramsay will venture into struggling restaurants under the cover of night. With the help of a secret source on the inside, he'll gather raw, unfiltered evidence and get a 360-degree view of the major issues facing each restaurant. This insider will not only remain a secret to the staff, but will also help Ramsay infiltrate the restaurant after-hours for a dramatic nighttime black light kitchen investigation that reveals more filth and grossness than ever before. By the time Ramsay reveals his identity, it will be too late for staff to cover up their culinary crimes. Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service will be his toughest assignment yet as he takes drastic measures to transform not only the restaurant but also the staff, because Gordon knows he can upgrade the menu and renovate the restaurant, but the most important change has to come from the people. Are the restaurant and staff willing to accept Gordon's mission, or are they too far gone to be saved?

Revival
Revival is set on one miraculous day in rural Wisconsin when the recently deceased suddenly rise from their graves. But this is no zombie story as the "revived" appear and act just like they once were. When local Officer and single mother Dana Cypress is unexpectedly thrown into the center of a brutal murder mystery of her own, she's left to make sense of the chaos amidst a town gripped by fear and confusion where everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect.

Mayor of Kingstown
Mayor of Kingstown is set in a small Michigan town where the only industry remaining are federal, state, and private prisons, the story follows the McLusky family, the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians, in a city completely dependent on prisons and the prisoners they contain. It is a stark and brutal look at the business of incarceration.

The Ark
The Ark takes place 100 years in the future when planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions on a spacecraft known as Ark One encounters a catastrophic event causing massive destruction and loss of life. With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies and loss of leadership, the remaining crew must become the best versions of themselves to stay on course and survive.