List of episodes of the series «TechKnow»

Harvesting GMO Salmon & Vertical Farms

• Episode number: 1
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Hosts ask how soon genetically modified salmon could hit your table, how NASA charts out a Mars rover's path and discover a secret garden inside Chicago's O'Hare Airport.

Exo Bionic/Cancer Test

• Episode number: 2
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  A bionic exoskeleton helping paralyzed people walk again and meet a teenage inventor of a cancer screening test.

Heart-in-a-Box/NYC Electric/NASA Kid

• Episode number: 3
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  A new device that allows hearts and other organs to live outside the body, explore New York City's ambitious plan to convert its taxi fleet to electric cars and meet a teenager who used a 3-D printer to create a prosthetic, robotic arm.

Drones/Predictive Policing/Mushrooms

• Episode number: 4
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Explore how a remotely piloted Predator drone helped fight the Rim fire in Yosemite National Park

Face Transplants/Condors

• Episode number: 5
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Meet Carmen Tarleton, the seventh person in the U.S. to receive a full face transplant, as she rebuilds her life and meets the donor's daughter.

Bees/Amazon Animal/Wine

• Episode number: 6
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Join our expert contributors as they explore high-tech methods to artificially inseminate honey bees, which are dying in record numbers.

Back-to-School / Cow Manure

• Episode number: 7
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Join our expert contributors as they explore new technology, including a new kind of high-density plastic that can be inserted into students' backpacks or teachers' white boards in hopes of deflecting gunfire.

NASA Seac4rs / Bamboo Bikes

• Episode number: 8
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Phil takes a ride with NASA in a flying science lab that measures evidence of climate change.

Shark Robot/Driverless Cars/Predictive Policing

• Episode number: 9
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Marita goes swimming with sharks to see first-hand how a new underwater robot is tracking animal behavior in the ocean.

Concussion Tech / Mushrooms

• Episode number: 10
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Crystal, a nicotine researcher, investigates the science behind e-cigarettes and vape culture.

E-Cigs/Heart-in-a-Box/Foodology

• Episode number: 11
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Crystal, a nicotine researcher, investigates the science behind e-cigarettes and vape culture. Plus, Marita meets chefs and scientists teaming up to create new high-tech restaurants, and Phil gets his hands on a new device that allows hearts.

Earthquake Tech / Mosquitoes / Exo Bionic

• Episode number: 12
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Marita goes inside San Francisco's new Bay Bridge to see its innovative approach to earthquake proofing. Kosta visits a startup working to make humans invisible to mosquitoes.

Orange Blight / Bugs as Protein / Space Boy

• Episode number: 13
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Phil puts his entomology chops to the test to learn how bugs may be the most overlooked protein.

Hi Tech Police / Bionic Arms / High Tech Wine

• Episode number: 14
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Lindsay learns how police departments are using lapel cameras and acoustic sensors to maximize efficiency and reduce crime.

PTSD / Oysters / Driverless Cars

• Episode number: 15
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Lindsay tests out the treatments doctors and therapists are using to help soldiers diagnosed with PTSD and traumatic brain injuries, including hyperbaric oxygen therapy and virtual reality therapy.

Exo Bionic / Cancer Test

• Episode number: 16
• Episode duration: 25 min.

Drones/Predictive Policing/Mushrooms

• Episode number: 17
• Episode duration: 25 min.

3D Printing/Texas Tech/Vertical Farms

• Episode number: 18
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Kosta gets a look at how 3D printing can be used to make everything from home electronics to baked goods—even an artificial heart valve that expands as pediatric patients grow.

Lungs-in-a-Box/Bamboo Bikes

• Episode number: 19
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Shini goes to Oklahoma to visit infamous "Tornado Alley" to see new innovations being developed to better track tornadoes and lessen the damage they cause.

DNA Pt 1/Molten Solar/Bugs as Protein

• Episode number: 20
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Phil travels to Peru to uncover whether a spider or mite could be constructing never-before-seen circular web structures.

DNA Testing at Home

• Episode number: 21
• Episode duration: 25 min.

Fountain of Youth?

• Episode number: 22
• Episode duration: 25 min.

Lung in a Box

• Episode number: 23
• Episode duration: 25 min.

Space Archaeology

• Episode number: 24
• Episode duration: 25 min.

Inside the CSI

• Episode number: 25
• Episode duration: 25 min.

The Frozen Zoo

• Episode number: 26
• Episode duration: 25 min.

Medical Marijuana for Kids

• Episode number: 27
• Episode duration: 25 min.

Designer Drugs: Legal & Lethal

• Episode number: 28
• Episode duration: 25 min.

Hollywood Resurrection

• Episode number: 29
• Episode duration: 25 min.

Eyes in the Sky

• Episode number: 30
• Episode duration: 25 min.

Facial recognition, faux eggs, and solar energy

• Episode number: 31
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Shini reports on facial recognition software used for law enforcement—and nightclubs. Marita visits a San Francisco lab working to build a better, plant-based egg substitute. Plus Kyle visits a solar field in Nevada.

Survivors: Help in a Heartbeat

• Episode number: 32
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Testing out satellite technology that can detect a heartbeat buried under rubble.

Smoking out the Truth: E-cigarettes Exposed

• Episode number: 33
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  New data on e-cigarettes reveals what's really in them and the secondhand smoke impact.

Sniffing Out Cancer

• Episode number: 34
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Taking their cue from cancer-detecting dogs, scientists work towards developing high-tech devices that can sniff out cancer early.

The Amazing Spider Web

• Episode number: 35
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Scientists want to harvest spider silk, which could be used to hold up bridges or create artificial body parts.

Frozen: Operation IceBridge

• Episode number: 36
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  NASA observes shrinking glaciers and fast rising seas; charts impacts of climate change.

Science Slumber Party

• Episode number: 37
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Living laboratory; one of the greenest houses on earth; high-tech house may help solve climate change issues.

Distracted Driving

• Episode number: 38
• Episode duration: 25 min.

Farms Without Fields

• Episode number: 39
• Episode duration: 25 min.

Brain Hack

• Episode number: 40
• Episode duration: 25 min.