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Science of Innovation

NBC Learn, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, explores the process of innovation. For related lesson plans, open the video and click on "Lessons". If you are having trouble viewing the videos

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02/11/2016

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While most people see viruses as harmful, Angela Belcher at MIT sees the future of energy. Belcher uses viruses engineered in her laboratory to form nano-scale wires for tiny batteries that could eventually be used to produce a wide r ...

Science of Innovation: Using Viruses to Make Batteries

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02/11/2016

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Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. But to engineer Mary Frecker of Pennsylvania State University, it is the future for designing tools that could be used in fields such as medicine and space exploration. "Science of ...

Science of Innovation: Origami Structures

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02/11/2016

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William Provancher of Tactical Haptics has developed a device that combines the sense of touch with technology. Called the "reactive grip," it allows the user to experience the virtual world in a whole new way. "Science of Innovation" ...

Science of Innovation: Motion Controller for Virtual Reality

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02/11/2016

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Angelique Johnson is the CEO of MEMStim, a company that is innovating how electrode arrays in cochlear implants are manufactured. Using automated micro-fabrication, instead of costly hand-made manufacturing, Johnson is able to lower t ...

Science of Innovation: Micro-Fabrication for Cochlear Implants

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02/11/2016

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Welding has long been used to join pieces of metal together. At the University of North Texas, Rajiv Mishra is using a form of welding in a new technology that can improve metal’s strength, toughness, and other properties and could br ...

Science of Innovation: Friction Stir Welding

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02/11/2016

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Adam Feinberg at Carnegie Mellon University has come up with a technique that expands the use of 3-D printing technology and could one day allow researchers to print heart tissue. "Science of Innovation" is produced in partnership wit ...

Science of Innovation: 3-D Bioprinting

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02/04/2013

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Concrete is one of the most common construction materials in the world, with its basic technology dating back to the ancient Romans. Engineers like Professor Deborah Chung at the State University of New York at Buffalo are using the ...

Science of Innovation: Smart Concrete

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02/04/2013

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At Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, computer scientist Sebastian Thrun and his team of software engineers are creating a fleet of self-driving cars. His innovative approach to artificial intelligence is what makes the ...

Science of Innovation: Self-Driving Cars

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02/04/2013

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Professors Reginald Farrow and Zafar Iqbal at the New Jersey Institute of Technology have collaborated on a series of innovations to make the energy conversion process that occurs within fuel cells as efficient as possible. “Science o ...

Science of Innovation: Fuel Cell Efficiency

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02/04/2013

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Professors John Rogers and Yonggang Huang have collaborated to design and engineer an electronic tattoo, a micro-electronic health monitor that adheres to the surface of human skin. Their work is an example of how collaboration is oft ...

Science of Innovation: Electronic Tattoos

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02/04/2013

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Professor Homayoon Kazerooni is a robotics engineer at the University of California, Berkeley with more than 40 patents to his name. His research on exoskeletons relies on more than just ingenuity and engineering expertise, it's also ...

Science of Innovation: Bionic Limbs

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02/04/2013

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In a science known as biometrics, physical or behavioral characteristics are used for personal identification. Arun Ross, a professor at West Virginia University, explains that the sclera of the eye is another biometric trait that can ...

Science of Innovation: Biometrics

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02/04/2013

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While sources of biofuel currently exist, such as ethanol made from corn, Professor Steve Hutcheson at the University of Maryland is developing a new approach to producing biofuels from cellulosic biomass, using a bacterium discovered ...

Science of Innovation: Biofuels

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02/04/2013

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Electronics, apparel, and pharmaceuticals are only some of the products counterfeiters try to fake. Using nanotechnology, Professor Evangelyn Alocilja, a biosystems engineer at Michigan State University, has developed an innovative p ...

Science of Innovation: Anti-Counterfeiting Devices

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02/04/2013

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3-D printing is an innovative manufacturing technique developed by Professors Michael Cima and Emanuel Sachs from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Once just used to create working prototypes, 3-D printers are now used by peo ...

Science of Innovation: 3-D Printing

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02/04/2013

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Whether it happens among students in a classroom, or engineers in a laboratory, innovation is a process, a series of steps that begins with imagination, and results in the creation of something of value for society. “Science of Innov ...

Science of Innovation: What Is Innovation?

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02/04/2013

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As an alternative to finding diamonds in nature for his scientific experiments, Professor Russell Hemley of the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution of Washington creates an innovative method of making large synthetic di ...

Science of Innovation: Synthetic Diamonds

02/11/2016

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Science of Innovation: Using Viruses to Make Batteries

While most people see viruses as harmful, Angela Belcher at MIT sees the future

02/11/2016

00:05:54

Science of Innovation: Origami Structures

Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. But to engineer Mary

02/11/2016

00:04:52

Science of Innovation: Motion Controller for Virtual Reality