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.
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