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Fighting mosquitoes with frickin' laser beams

Season 1 Episode 6 | 4m 19s

You can always count on pesky mosquitoes to make their presence known through bothersome buzzes and itchy bites. But they're worse than annoying: Nearly half a million people a year worldwide die from malaria carried by the critters. Scientists at Intellectual Ventures Laboratory in Bellevue, WA, are battling these deadly carriers with the coolest technology possible: lasers.

Aired: 09/26/18
Made possible with funding from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Extras
Learn about Operation Sustain, a video game that teaches kids about climate change.
Join Katie as she visits a state-of-the-art oyster nursery and learns how to slurp oysters
What if you could turn almost any surface into a solar panel?
If you could teleport inside a polluted box to save lives, would you?
How can we reduce agricultural waste? Replace fish meal with mealworms.
Your hamburger choice has real consequences for the environment.
A suburb just outside of Seattle hides a nuclear reactor.
A grassroots effort to develop lighter, more affordable, personal rapid transit.
A startup company in Seattle is converting food waste into electricity and fertilizer.
A scientist at Oregon State University is developing edible food packaging and coatings.
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Learn about Operation Sustain, a video game that teaches kids about climate change.
Join Katie as she visits a state-of-the-art oyster nursery and learns how to slurp oysters
What if you could turn almost any surface into a solar panel?
If you could teleport inside a polluted box to save lives, would you?
How can we reduce agricultural waste? Replace fish meal with mealworms.
Your hamburger choice has real consequences for the environment.
A suburb just outside of Seattle hides a nuclear reactor.
A grassroots effort to develop lighter, more affordable, personal rapid transit.
A startup company in Seattle is converting food waste into electricity and fertilizer.
A scientist at Oregon State University is developing edible food packaging and coatings.