PBS News Hour

A real life Iron Man, Russian rugball | 5 STORIES

On this week’s episode: An all-women demining team in Iraq clear explosives left from past wars, Purdue University engineers invent the whitest paint ever created to help conserve energy, a Russian sport made up of basketball, wrestling and rugball hopes to go mainstream, giant googly eyes reduce bird entanglement, and the British Royal Marines test Iron Man-like jetpacks.

A real life Iron Man, Russian rugball | 5 STORIES

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