Science Matters
April 15, 2015
Special | 25m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Cancer treatment, room lighting technologies, star fish.
Doctors were skeptical when they heard about a device that uses an electric field to kill cancer cells, but a young mother has seen her tumor shrink to nearly nothing. Room lighting is a more conventional use of electricity, but in the right hands, new technologies are turning functional lighting into an art form. A mysterious disease is killing off star fish up and down the west coast.
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Science Matters is a local public television program presented by Nine PBS
Science Matters
April 15, 2015
Special | 25m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Doctors were skeptical when they heard about a device that uses an electric field to kill cancer cells, but a young mother has seen her tumor shrink to nearly nothing. Room lighting is a more conventional use of electricity, but in the right hands, new technologies are turning functional lighting into an art form. A mysterious disease is killing off star fish up and down the west coast.
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