caltech >>> this is "techknow", a show about innovations that saves lives. we explore hardware and humanity in a unique way. this is a show about scientists by scientists. let's check out the team of so-called nerves. lindsay moran, an analyst - new technology can make guns safer. does it work. we put it to the "techknow" test. kyle hill is a science writer with a background in engineering. tonight - earthquakes. they are frightening, devastating and can strike without warning. you. >> this red circle is what we have to worry about. >> announcer: they can. dr shini somara is an engineer and i'm phil torres, i'm an entomologist. that's the team, let's do some science. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >>> hey, guys. welcome to "techknow". i'm phil torres, with me kyle sil, cara santa maria, and lindsay moran. lindsay moran, the only c.i.a. operative - you are the in-house security specialist. you got me to look at a smart gun coming with controversy. >> that's right. we talk about the controversy later. first let's look at the technology. ironically after years of working for th

researches at caltech are trying to give us seconds before a similar disaster hits the u.s.ake a look. >> reporter: there are scenes of incredible power and force. this is what a magnitude 9 earthquake can do. this is what it looks like. fear captured in real-time, by home video cameras, rolling when the earth shook japan, and shared on youtube for the world to see. march 11th, 2011, 9.0, japan. april 18th, 2014, 7.2, mexico. august 23rd, 2011, 5.8 virginia and the district of columbia. october 17th, francisco. >> what happened? >> there's a hell of an earthquake. everything. >> earthquakes are still a big mystery. try and understand exactly what is happening on the phones while these things are sliding is one of the first physics mysteries out there. >> there is nothing in nature like a seismic ept, and no one knows that more than dr tom heaton. he has been studying quakes since the 1970s, and america's seismic center, caltech. >> one of the things people don't like about earthquakes is when it starts, you have no idea how big the shaking will get. if you are in the wrong p

caltech posted this video on you tube today. it shows eric pecking autopsy beer and drinking it.to did it he imagine whirling his harms like a wind mill. the mental image that activated the brain cell that set the narm motion. >> eric waiting 13 years to be able to bring a beer by himself able to bring a beer by himself. >> how amazing is the technology. >> we give you a rare inside look at the newly built cell tower at sfo. >> brand new room with unbeat i am totally blind. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. >> something new at the airports. we have a rare look inside the new control tower and view hard to beat. >> travelers are used to seeing this tower. but the new one towers above it. 40 feet taller than our current air traffic control tower. airport officials gave us a rare tour of the tower as they announce done with construction and handing it over to the faa. >> when we start using the tower next year we are operating out of a building that is outward

i went to caltech for my master's degree.nd then i started working with this mainframe company called burroughs. my first job was to fix things. emily: you started your career learning how to fix things. i am sensing a theme. you worked your way up. 30 years, you became ceo of sybase. how did you do it? i mean, along the way, what did it take? john: i actually like fixing things. i think it's both a challenge and an opportunity to learn stuff. because i am kind of the old-school, loyal, stick-with-it type of person. today's young people are a little bit more entitlement-oriented. when we were growing up, we never thought about it that way. we thought that you have to create opportunity yourself. i tried to go and learn different areas. my first job is in fixing manufacturing hardware. then i went into writing software. helping run factories. i have done a lot of different things throughout my career. emily: you took sybase from a $362 million company, on the verge of failure, to $5.8 billion. how did you do it? john: first of

researchers at caltech published his story in the journal. >> pacman gets old. the arcade classic turns 35. it is believed to be the highest earning coin-operated game of all time. life-time income is estimated at 2.5 billion, it's a lot of quarters, happy birthday pacman. >> i'm antonio mora thank you for joining us. luis suarez luis suarez luis suarez -- ray suarez is next with "inside story". >>> we live you with rolling stones they begin a tour next month in san diego. [ ♪♪ ] >>> for the moment hillary clinton stands head and shoulders above a tiny democratic field in name recognition and campaign funding. when she supports same-sex marriage, going after corporate tax cheats giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, is she demonstrating a shift in her own

caltech >>> this is "techknow", a show about innovations that saves lives.hardware and humanity in a unique way. this is a show about scientists by scientists. let's check out the team of so-called nerves. lindsay moran, an analyst - new technology can make guns safer. does it work. we put it to the "techknow"

or caltech. and i saw that personally when i was trying to get engineering help for my work on "unsafe at any speed." but i never exaggerated their power because i had a very, very realistic view of the power of people. and i realize that corporations, for all their power, they don't have a single vote, and that what members of congress wanted were votes. and so people became alert and they began to realize that it wasn't always the nut behind the wheel in crashes and injuries on the highway, that the engineering systems of highways and vehicles were very critical in minimizing crashes and, if they occurred, minimizing their injuries, such as a seatbelt, then the public interest would prevail. now, that served me pretty well because i had my feet on the ground and i knew i had a lot of work to do. i had to get the technical community behind what we were doing, i had to get it out to the media, i had to have contacts with senators and representatives who remembered where they came from and had a p

wonderful people at caltech the people that run the project come even though there is a copy i felt iot to pay a visit to the shrine and to see the papers at the university so i went there and that's where the papers are and by the way, something really cool that all of the viewers should do right now is starting about two months ago caltech princeton and hebrew university all agreed to take the papers and put them online. several people that visit hebrew university or caltech it's so cool because now we can crowd source. not only are all of the papers online come up with english translations, so you can read the hundreds and hundreds of letters in 1905 if you're trying to figure out this complicated controversy what did marriage play in the interior will read the papers online and see the letters he wrote to his friend helping him the patent office. it's exciting these days we can get the papers online. i really salute the outside papers project for doing that. >> host: at the end of the paper you write miracles serve as evidence of god's existence. for einstein was the absence of mi

so the r&d to figure out how do you get caltech, m.i.t., all these top universities to look at the chemistryand build this reinvented toilet the foundation has funded that type of advanced research. and we're seeing really good progress. >> and the way it worked, as i understand it, is that the waste is taken, it's essentially heated to a high level. the water evaporates. you can then separate the liquids from the solid. that water is then distilled and purified. and then you drank it. >> exactly. all the water we drink has been in lots and lots of different places. the key is it's been purified right before we have to drink it. and in this plant, it is a very, very pure output. in fact, you know, it's a valuable output. >> did you -- could you tell anything different from the taste? >> no. once water is boiled and filtered very effectively, it's nice, wonderful water. i had a bottle of this stuff in my car, and my kids would pick it up and say, "really, dad?" so they found it fascinating. but in fact, what we have to think about is that most people don't have sanitation. in fact, mody in in