Researchers are trying to understand how and why living plants burn.
Subjects: General
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IED Labradors
K2 Solutions are now training Labrador Retrievers for use by the US military to detect roadside bombs.
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Ancient Beer
Fossil Fuels is the newest oldest beer in the world, brewed with yeast extracted from 45-million-year-old tree resin.
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The Old School Club
The St. Andrews Golf Co. is Scotland’s last remaining golf club maker and the only traditional wooden golf club maker on Earth. Daily Planet discovers that the old traditional clubs are still just as good as the new high-tech clubs.
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Rickety Grand Prix
Watch as a team of road warriors compete for the Rickety Downhill Challenge trophy on an abandoned stretch of road.
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Sand Art
Earthscape artist Andres Amador battles time and tide to create his works of art and photograph them before they’re washed away.
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Speed Flying
Ice climber Will Gadd’s newest sport, born in the Rocky Mountains, uses a paraglider-style wing to fly very close to the terrain.
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Wind Tunnel Geese
Researchers use the wind tunnel at UBC to discover how the Bar-headed Goose flies higher than other birds can even dream of flying.
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Recycled Church
Don Justo has built a massive, intricate Spanish cathedral entirely out of salvaged and donated materials, and he did it with no formal architectural training.
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Solar Tunnel
Engineers in Antwerp, Belgium, built an above-ground train tunnel and then covered it in solar panels to generate clean electricity.