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Daily Planet Segments (2012-2013 Season)

Titles in this series

201 films

2012 · 5m 31s

Car Torture Track

Ford's Lommel Proving Grounds in Northern Belgium is where testers put car prototypes through the wringer to make…

2013 · 4m 55s

Cardboard Helmet

After suffering a concussion in a bicycle crash, even though he was wearing a modern bicycle helmet, Ani…

2012 · 5m 41s

CGI Video Trickery

A student at Montreal's Centre NAD shows us how he helped make a CGI video that fooled millions…

2012 · 5m 58s

CHASE Stretcher

Resolution Group demonstrates a new stretcher used to rescue people during natural disasters.

2013 · 4m 22s

Cheetah Bot

Researchers at Osaka University are building a robot that will move like a real cheetah.

2013 · 5m 36s

Chris P. Bacon

Meet a disabled but adorable little piglet who has his very own wheelchair.

2012 · 4m 16s

Cocroach Heroes

North Carolina State University researchers think that cockroaches are the next breed of heroes.

2013 · 4m 40s

Coffee Car

Martin Bacon has built a car that runs on discarded coffee grounds via gasification.

2013 · 4m 57s

Concept Smoke Screen

This UK company has mastered the art of creating artificial smoke for emergency training and is now using…

2013 · 5m 24s

Controlled Burn

Fire Ecologist Brett Williams shows how controlled burns are used to study fires to learn how to fight…

2013 · 5m 9s

Crabster

Bong-Huan Jun gives us a sneak peek at his team's giant robotic crab before it heads to the…

2012 · 7m 8s

D-Dalus

Austrian inventor Meinhard Schwaiger gives us a sneak peek at the possible future of airplanes; his cyclogyro.

2012 · 5m 27s

D-Shape 3D Printer

Enrico Dini has built the world's largest 3D printer, which he hopes will eventually allow him to "print"…

2013 · 4m 54s

Dangerous Crossing

Ultra-marathon swimmer Chloe McCardel is training to swim from Cuba to Florida - a distance of 170 kilometers…

2012 · 5m 41s

Daredevil Kayaker

Tyler Bradt attempts to navigate his kayak over the 57-metre drop of Palouse Falls.

2012 · 5m 40s

Dark Matter

Jay ventures into an underground lab to see some dark matter.

2012 · 3m 41s

Death by Sun

Physics & astronomy professor Paul Delaney explains how the Sun will destroy Earth.

2012 · 4m 28s

Deep Sea Jellyfish

Espen Rekdal braves the cold depths of Norway's fjords with his specialized camera to photograph the elusive creature.

2012 · 4m 27s

Disaster City

Rescue crews train in Vancouver's eerily accurate simulation of a city that has been struck by a devastating…

2012 · 5m 46s

DLR Vacuum Chamber

The German Aerospace Center has intalled one of the largest vacuum chambers of its kind to test an…

2013 · 4m 42s

DNA Gun

Selectamark Security Systems has developed new type of paintball gun and ammunition that shoots pellets of DNA in…

2012 · 5m 28s

Doomsday Seed Vault

Svalbard Global Seed Vault houses the most valuable natural resource on Earth.

2013 · 4m 44s

Dr. NakaMats

Yoshiro Nakamatsu claims to be the world's most prolific inventor, with more than 3,000 inventions under his belt.

2012 · 3m 54s

Drexel Hubo

Drexel University students hope that Hubo will become the ultimate search and rescue robot.