might come almost anything made from the many or most steel can be made out of bamboo these pioneers want to put the brakes on over exploitation of natural resources especially fossil fuels and their derivatives will reach a limited some point we're already over exploring the planet the search for alternative raw materials is becoming ever more urgent. she curie is one alternative raw material with great potential its leaves are usually eaten but the pioneers are also interested in its roots they usually end up as waste or sent to the bio gas plant. professor andrea kreuzer from the university of poor and uses these chicory routes they contain a substance that she needs for her research. well this is the bit you eat the vegetable. but we want these roots here they contain a storage substance that we can use to make a platform chemical. in other words we can make stockings for example or beverage bottles out of these roots thank you floss and muffin. chicory roots are too bitter to be edible apart from fermenting bio gas there is little else you can do with them that makes them ideal

going to start is a pioneer in metal alternatives. is by fracking is made of bamboo. as was a great about bamboo is that it makes for a very comfortable right at the bamboo consists of long fibers which absorbs shock that's really nice when you're writing over cobblestones or bumpy ground like i was unless i'm going to miss fire three. he's sold about a thousand bamboo bikes since he founded his company four years ago. the bikes are assembled in kiel city and touring bikes and now and he bike to. the frames are made of bamboo most of the other components a missile. on which they and i. buy school frames are usually made of steel al-ameen your more carbon fiber those are finite materials and their production process also consumes a great deal of energy. using a bamboo frame offers a lot of ecological benefits it's a raw material that grows very quickly in the wild bamboo grows faster than almost any other plant in the world and in vast quantities so we take this role material from nature and then we build the frame by hand which also conserve energy it still needs the

printing like poisonous emissions and more plastic really vanish over time and many tech pioneers believe that three d. printing could solve some of the world's most urgent problems making it a cleaner better place to live in although that needs three d. printers than the ones you would use in your living room the future have three d. printing may have been written at the university of california plan research has developed a way to make three d. printing one hundred times faster instead of layering liquid materials and methods . find the. base ultra precise method is still in its early stages but it's hoped it could be used in mass production someday. also based company celebrates his pushing the envelope of three d. printing head developing a method of printing by layering cells on top of each other through cell division the parent cell divides into daughter cells these are together and so forth the company has already managed to print many organs using this process. in the long term we want to establish something that helps keep people alive that's what motivates us five. three d. prin

creating shoes and accessories from scratch even major fashion brands are onboard sylvia biden is a pioneer in this field experimenting with various colorful synthetic resins she says anyone can use three d. printers as long as they select in use the input materials properly. and even the tenderness on how to use a fine fire and combine different materials. to someone called me a. belgian three d. printing company materialized for example has found a way to recycle plastic waste and turn it into glasses frames which by the way are fully recyclable. to make sure that the sunglasses never become waste again so. some glass for a new pair we recycle the old frames and print new sunglasses from. three d. printing tech is revolutionizing the health care sector as well. for instance produces tailor made prosthetic arms that fit perfectly he was never quite satisfied with the other manufacturers artificial members. and who knows maybe more of us will be living in three d. houses the first three d. printed buildings have already gone up in france and denmark as well as in texas where these icon home

douglas was one of the chief tains, pioneers, visionary, a brilliant engineer, he graduated with the first ever aeronautic engineering masters ever given from that institution. in 1921 he began the douglas aircraft company here in santa monica, using a movie warehouse on wilshire boulevard today known as douglas park he created a company that changed the world with his airliners, navy jets, navy aircraft, pivotal airplanes in world war ii, the list is quite long. he's the one responsible for the greatness in the field of american aviation. donald douglas chose santa monica because it had good terrain, there was a small airport called cloverfield being used by the army at that time he used that as his flying operational base and the big

race pioneer... and bafrk robinson is dead at the age of 85... robinson...who had a long battle with cancer... as reported earlier in the show... major league hall of famer,trailblazer, and bay area icon frank robinson died today at the age of 83.. robinson, who lost a long batle with cancer, grew up in oakland... and broke into the major leagues with the cncinnati reds... with whom he played for 10 seasons... winning the national league mvp in 1961 he was traded to the baltimore orioles... where he won the american league mvp his first season there in 1966... becoming the first and still only player to achieve that honor in both leagues. he also took the triple crown and led the o's to their first world series title that season in 1975, robinson became the first african-american to manage a major league team when he took charge of the cleveland indians... then became the first african-american to manage a national league team when he was hired by the giants in 1981 in 1982, the 14-time all-star was inducted into the major league hall of fame. ro

the pioneering treatment for parkinson's disease — we report on the trial that patients say alleviatedymptoms. and the conductor, composer and pianist andre previn has died at the age of 89. and coming up on bbc news... claudio ranieri is sacked as manager of fulham afterjust 16 league games in charge. he leaves the club ten points adrift of premier league safety. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a woman who killed her husband in a hammer attack after "decades of abuse" will face a retrial after her murder conviction was quashed. 65—year—old sally challen admitted killing her husband richard in august 2010, but denied murder. our home affairs correspondent june kelly reports from the court of appeal. for sally challen‘s son david and her lawyer, this was partial victory. they had hoped to have the conviction reduced to manslaughter, but the appeal judges conviction reduced to manslaughter, but the appealjudges ruled that instead sally challen must face a fresh murder trial. it's an amazing moment. the courts have acknowledged this case needs to be looked at again, as we

. >> it is amazing, in a way, how he played a pioneer. lot of people didn't realize that. >> very much so. >> how did you decide on your approach. did you have to decide on an approach or did the story just sort of evolve? >> well, we talked to the lee family and said how do you want for us to approach this? we wanted them to be happy with it, and basically, they said well, we don't want to dwell that much on him being a politician, but how did ed lee become ed lee. so what we did was we went back to his hometown of seattle, interviewed his brothers and sisters, talked to some of his childhood friends. he grew up in the church as well in seattle so there were influences there as well. so we wanted to find out, when you're a kid, what influenced him to become the person that he did, and then he went to a small college in the east coast, we talked to one of his professors over there. so that was the approach we had, what caused ed lee to become the great person, the humble guy that we all knew. >> yes, and i think it's even more interesting

. >>> there was a final salute this weekend to a pioneering aviator who broke barriers at 30,000 feetnd above, making history as the first woman to become a u.s. navy fighter pilot. nbc's tammy lightner reports from tennessee. >> the navy hornets streak through the tennessee skies in the missing man formation for the first time piloted by an all-female crew. an aerial sendoff ground breaking aviator. >> she is a true pioneer in our profession and today to have eight female combat veterans representing her in her last and final flight was powerful. >> reporter: the flyover followed yesterday's funeral for captain mariner. she died last month after a battle with ovarian cancer. rosie, as her friends called her, was the first woman to earn her navy wings in 1973, the first woman to fly a tactical fighter jet, the first squadron commanding officer. >> she was a trailblazer in every sense of the terd those p followed in her footsteps say she was born to fly. >> rosie, from day on from the day she hit officer school had her sights set on fighting jets and nobody was going tell her no. >> re

british mathematician ada lovelace she was little appreciated in her time but she is now seen as a pioneer of computer science. in eight hundred forty three she developed the first algorithm for the analytical engine a theoretical prototype of the modern digital computer she's often called the world's first programmer. marie curie did enjoy recognition for her groundbreaking work on radioactivity the polish born scientists share the one nine hundred three nobel prize in physics and later also won the prize for chemistry. austrian physicist liza meitner was crucially involved in the discovery of nuclear fusion but was not honored with the nobel prize. the same is true of british chemists rosalind franklin who produced the for. first x. ray picture of the d.n.a. molecule vital for identifying its structure. since the introduction of the nobel prize is one hundred eighteen years ago only three percent of the awards for science have gone to women. and only one has gone to a german woman christiane on the fly and fall hard with the prize in physiology or medicine for her research on the genetic

save our forests at the earth live forum hosted by microsoft berlin some ai expos and viral mental pioneers whether it can boost sustainability and arrived at some fascinating results. they can process huge amounts of data in a short time that allows us to tackle projects that would otherwise be impossible. ai self cannot save our planet however i can tell you that without ai will not get there we cannot manage what we don't measure so we need to start by measuring earth's resources so that we can little by little improve how we monitor model and ultimately manage earth resources for example the wild need project identifies and tracks wildlife populations photographs of animals or uploaded onto an open source a platform for researchers and private citizens and ai system identifies each animal by its markings and other features and records of the location in time the image was captured that allows scientists to monitor migration patterns for example . and lets users trace the movements of an animal they photographed on their last holiday. the sylvia terra startup wants to use it to improve f

how greensburg, kansas, became an environmental pioneer after a natural disaster.: welcome to our viewers on public television here in the ouu.s. and also the globe. the founder of the chinese tech firm huawei tells the bbc he objects to governmentsa sanctios an they won't crush the company. in an exclusive interview, ren zhengfei said the arrest of his daughter and the compa's cfo was politically motivated. bbcren sat down with the for his first international int'iew since his daughter's arrest. reporter: this is the man the u.s. says is helping china spy on the world. ren zhengfei, a former engineer in the chinese military, started huawei0 ars ago with just three people. he has built a telecom giant tfigut apple, no -- bigger nokia, withnd some of the fastest 5glo tech in the world. now his life's work is under attack, and his daughter's freedom hangs in the balance. the u.s. says huaw's equipment could be used by china to spy on other countries, but in an exclusive interview with me, the r mpany's 74-year-old founder said that would happen. an: we will never und

. >>> there was a final salute this weekend to a pioneering aviator who broke barriers at 30,000 feetpilot. nbc's tammy lit neeitner reportm tennessee. >> reporter: the navy hornets streak through the tennessee skies in the missing man formation, for the first time piloted by an all-female crew. a single jet soars to the heavens. an ariel sendoff for a ground-breaking aviator. >> captain rosemary is a true pioneer in our profession. today to have eight female combat veterans representing her on her last and final flight was really powerful. >> reporter: the flyover followed the funeral for captain mariner. she died last month after a battle with ovarian cancer. rosie, as friends called her, was the first woman to earn her navy wings in 1973. the first woman to fly a tactical fighter jet. the first squadron commanding officer. >> she was a trail blazer in every sense of the word. >> reporter: those pilots who followed in her footsteps say she was born to fly. >> rosie, from day one, from the day she hit officer candidate school, had her sights set on flying jets. and nobody was going t

now, thanks to a pioneering unit in cambridge, zack is learning to live again.r, the son and the holy spirit. and helping to save our beautiful ancient churches. i spend a very hectic sunday with the super—vicar from suffolk. the stories that matter closer to home. i'm david whiteley, and this is inside out. hello, and welcome to the programme. now, we're using the internet more and more to help us with stuff around the house. smart technology to help make our lives easier. but as we're about to show you, someone else could take control of your house. jo taylor investigates. adrian gardner is a bit unusual. he plans his week's viewing the old—fashioned way and, unlike most of us, he has no wi—fi and no catch—up tv, so he has to get inventive. you haven't got iplayer or catchup or anything? no, not at all. i mean, it's possible to get devices to record the television, i don't have one of those at the moment, but if it's a good drama or something, i wait for the dvd to come out. you're very patient. laughs. at least his telly isn't black and white. adrian's a tech

reaction now from the cyber security pioneer behind the back of the antivirus software and john mica me john can you hear me we can see lighting a thing or. here's the problem that i have with with the story the troll factory in russia is problematic for the entire world they are there sophisticated manipulate and control so many things especially in america that if the us did have the capability to shut them down why did they not do so why send sort of a warning shot it's like someone in the dating america so mexico invades america has been invading america doing damage and the only response from the us is on one day they attack it doesn't make any sense i'm sorry but from a technological standpoint unless the troll factory has been traded by us agents it is not technically possible to do so i'm sorry what kind of effort john would it take for the us to carry out this cyber operation on russia because surely it would take a huge number of people wouldn't it. it would take a lot of people in the thousands and they would have to be imbedded in all aspects of the russian social and pol

bob dickson said it made sense and is pioneering pa rt said it made sense and is pioneering part of americae of you. that is the way we were raised out here. so those conservation values told us leave it better than you found it. take care of what you've got and live within your means and resources you have available, and thatis resources you have available, and that is green. our business, the antique business is one of the, probably one of the first green sustainable businesses that ever existed. this building, which houses erica goodman's antiques laura, was one of the few left standing after the tornado. erika says going green has saved eight on her bills. it was economics which persuaded others in this staunchly republican area to get on board. i think most people realise that it is not a big hippy liberal thing, there are little things we can do that make our lives better, but put an ease on your pocketbook. there are many reasons why this town of fewer than a thousand is leading the way in green power. wind might have destroyed greensburg once, now it has become its saviour. now, it'

of using genetic codes to store data. —— zoo —— zurich. pioneers of using genetic codes to store dataere and enormous box. this doctor has and coding the music or ready to be sequenced into the dna. that work is done by several companies now offering genetic code to order. they make the dna in the sequence that encodes for the album. they will encode. then you have to make... you have to make a lot of those sequences. what does it look like when you buy it? itjust looks like water. but we know there is dna in there and every tube there is about a megabyte of information. the whole album is distributed over the tubes so there is no particular order. every tube contains a million different sequences and every sequence has a number stored in it to tell us where it sits in the overall picture of the album. we have correction implemented into it. if we miss the sequence in reading 01’ if we miss the sequence in reading or writing, the data is stored somewhere else. you have some redundancy. inside this chip is effectively about the equivalent of one of the tracks of the album. and how much

journalism, one of the great women pioneers of photographyjournalism, marilyn stafford.as born in the united states but she moved to paris where she became the proteges of the brilliant henri cartier—bresson. like him, she liked capture intimate portraits of ordinary people. she has worked in war zones and on fashion catwalks. and now, at 93, her work is being admired by a new generation. so, what gives her pictures their power? marilyn stafford, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. let's start way back. you trained as an actress, you spend a while as a nightclub singer and yet you really found your creative voice in photography still. what was that about photography that really reached into your soul? i have been called an accidental photographer. because i really did not set out to do the photography at all. the photography was something that was just there. when i was a child, everybody had a little box brownie, every family had a little box brownie. and so, the photography was just part of life, it wasn't anything, it was in photography. it was just you had a anything, it

reporting in pioneer - bridgette bjorlo (vicki) 'empire' actor jussie smollett is now facing chargeserly conduct. that's according to the cook county state's attorney's office. and a bond hearing is expected for tomorrow... earlier today, chicago police tweeted smollett is now 'officially' classified as a suspect in a criminal investigation for filing a false police report. disorderly conduct and filing a false report are both felonies. three weeks ago, smollett told police two men attacked him in a chicago neighborhood. he said they put a rope around his neck and poured a chemical substance on him while shouting racist and homophobic slurs. this latest news comes as new security video appears to show two brothers... buying the black ski masks and gloves from a beauty store... they were arrested and released in connection with the attack. they are cooperating with law enforcement and are no longer suspects. detectives are presenting evidence before a cook county grand jury. according to his attorneys, smollett denies playing a role in his attack. (grant) tonight a new report shows th

reporting in pioneer - bridgette bjorlo (ken) a near-death experience in utah...lanche buries a competitive skier, putting his life at risk. fortunately his friends were on the scene and quick to rescue him. the moment was caught on camera, as the avalanche carries the skier 200 feet, through trees and rocks before he is buried in the snow. once the avalanche stopped, the skiers friends were quick to try and find him as he was yelling from under the snow. both looking for any sign of their friend... when they spotted the tip of a ski. (ken)shovel."> (ken) the skier was underneath the snow for a minute and 15 seconds. it's not often that col

still teaching pioneer and one of the first professors to have a humanoid robot assistant the professor uses an interactive teaching approach which is made possible by. your right. to be a member of the right it's the state just after seven am at university thursdays always start early for your going hunt and patrick. this is yuki's work day and he needs to be woken up. just yet i. don't know for sure. what's the time. he's ready now. time to head to. needs help making the journey. and we need this push cart to go anywhere. to help him get from a to b. . you completed his test phase just a few weeks ago since then he's been working regularly at the university patrick hines program suki it is thanks to hunch that yuki is always learning. it's. true and you can be great if you could get a class by himself that's still missing. but even in the future that's going to be difficult also because of the elevator. when the university first and to other robots for twenty thousand euros they couldn't do much. now the one point two meter tall robot is more than a fancy gimmick for professor you're

and the mars probe that's been named after the dna pioneer rosalind franklin.nd coming up on bbc news. the british horse racing authority says cancelling all racing today was essential after an outbreak of equine flu. one meeting for saturday has also been called off. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. theresa may has been meeting the president of the european commission, jean—claude juncker, in brussels to try to secure changes to the brexit withdrawal agreement. both sides described the talks as robust but constructive. mrjuncker again insisted there could be no reopening of the agreement, but both leaders have agreed to meet again before the end of the month. theresa may has to get changes to the agreement to have any hope of securing the support of mps, after her original deal was rejected by the commons. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has set out five demands for his party to support a brexit deal, including a permanent customs union and close alignment with the single market. let's go live now to our europe correspondent damian grammati

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youngsters like david eisenhower, like polio pioneer randy kerr, are part of a bright new future, a futurel see the unconditional surrender of infantile paralysis. ♪ announcer: next, on american history tv. donald miller interviews jessica on her novel, "women in the castle." she explains how her family's connections to nazi germany influenced your work and how her research influenced her understanding of german citizens during world war ii. this was part of a three-day conference hosted by the national world war ii in new orleans -- museum in new orleans. >> welcome back. this next session is unique for conference.nts -- for those who come here regularly, you are used to seeing the biggest and brightest minds in the field of world war ii history. this normally means the best selling authors of history books, leading professors, documentarians, but when we were planning this year's program, we decided to mix it up by inviting null list -

now, thanks to a pioneering unit in cambridge, zachary is learning to live again. father, the son and the holy spirit. and helping to save oui’ the holy spirit. and helping to save our beautiful ancient churches, i spend a very hectic sunday with the super because from suffolk. the stories that matter closer to home. i'm david whiteley, and this is inside out. hello, and welcome to the programme. now we are using the internet more and more to help us with stuff around the house. smart technology to help make our lives easier. but as we are about to show you, someone else could take control of your house. joe taylor investigates. adrian gardner is a bit unusual. he plans his wea k‘s adrian gardner is a bit unusual. he plans his weak‘s viewing the old—fashioned way, plans his weak‘s viewing the old —fashioned way, and plans his weak‘s viewing the old—fashioned way, and unlike most of us he has no wi—fi and no catch—up tv, so he has to get inventive. you haven't got iplayer gorrie thing? not at all, it is possible to get devices for the portable television, i don't ha