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Google Earth Gets Animated

Researchers from Georgia Tech are blending real-time video with imagery from Google Earth to create dynamic visualizations of urban places. [Video]

28 September 2009 - 7:00am

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Feeding the World in 2050

Growing populations and diminishing land will make feeding people a challenge in the near future. This piece from Popular Science looks at eight strategies to keep the world fed.

17 August 2009 - 10:00am

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'Disaster City' Trains Rescuers for Real-Life Catastrophes

Disasters happen. Being prepared is almost always the ideal, but rarely the reality. A disaster training facility in Texas is trying to change that.

3 August 2009 - 9:00am

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Treechitecture

Civic amenities, public spaces, and even housing could one day be formed by living trees. Researchers are looking into this new idea.

26 August 2008 - 1:00pm

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The Green City of the Future

This multimedia presentation from Popular Science offers a vision of future green cities and the technologies that will sustain them.

29 June 2008 - 5:00am

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Most Polluted Cities

This slideshow from Popular Science looks at some of the most heavily polluted cities in the world.

28 June 2008 - 5:00am

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Finding Ancient Cities Below the Surface

This slideshow form Popular Science takes a step-by-step look at how to detect and uncover ancient buried settlements from satellite imagery.

9 June 2008 - 9:00am

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Turning Garbage into Power

A new technology called plasma gasification may make landfills a thing of the past, and make city garbage collection a profitable service.

4 June 2008 - 9:00am

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Innovations in the Green City Movement

This slideshow from Popular Science shows case studies of some of the country's greenest cities and how they are achieving environmental sustainability.

16 February 2008 - 5:00am

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