Home Runs & Hole-in-One

DENVER (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Although baseball season is over, and players are taking a break from training, statisticians are in high gear, calculating who had the league's best batting statistics. Researchers at University of Northern Colorado now know for certain just where balls fly farther.

Tracking Your Team

BALTIMORE (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- From the quarterback to the tight end ... From passing ... tackling ... offense .... defense ... Sometimes it's tough for fans to keep up with all the action!

Sports Injury Prevention Performance

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Football is a tough game. One hard hit can take you out for the season, and nobody knows that better than number 32, Willie Byrd.

What Makes Your Cereal Go Snap, Crackle, Pop

MINNEAPOLIS (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Snap, crackle, pop! Does your cereal talk to you? Rice Krispies -- the breakfast that talks to you -- has been around for nearly 80 years, but scientists have only recently figured out why it makes that noise.

Mercury Detection It's a Ruff Job

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- It's not often that you see a four-legged student roaming the school halls, but this dog is on a mission. Clancy is the only dog in the United States trained to sniff out dangerous mercury.

Safer Water Worldwide

In the United States, with just the turn of a knob, clean, drinkable water is right at our fingertips. That's not the case in many parts of the world. But new technology is making it possible for people worldwide to have drinkable water ... With a stir of a powerful powder.

Mission for NASA

TIMNATH, Colo. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- For millennia, man has studied clouds from the ground looking up. Today, satellites orbit earth, sending back a cross section of cloud information from the inside out...

CSI X-Ray Fingerprints

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Popular television crime shows solve cases in an hour. But in real life, cracking a case isn't a quick, easy game -- especially when it comes to finding fingerprints.

Is Your Drinking Water Contaminated?

OLYMPIA, Wash. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- If our drinking water supply is contaminated, accidentally or intentionally, a spill response team goes to work, getting the situation under control as quickly as possible. Now new computer software is helping make the response even quicker -- all across the country.

Detecting Deadly Chemicals

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Whether it's a murder, a break-in, or an anthrax scare, investigators trying to solve a crime are burdened with collecting delicate, sometimes toxic evidence. Next, cynthia demos shows us a new device that does all the work.

Safer Scans for Pregnant Women

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- It's hard enough being pregnant, but for some women, what happens during pregnancy can put their and their baby's life at risk. A simple scan at the hospital could increase the chance of developing cancer. Now, a new scan is making it safer for doctors to help pregnant women who are in pain.

Are You Really Paying Attention

CINCINNATI (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Watching ... focusing ... scanning ... Millions of American jobs require intense concentration on monitors or television screens. But are we really paying attention?

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