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A researcher uses thermal cameras, laser scanners and other techniques to capture bat-life when the lights are off.
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Researchers use time-lapse photography and a prosthetic plant to understand how cucumber tendrils curl.
Pumpkins of the Atlantic Giant variety can weigh more than 1800 pounds. For a mechanical engineer with an interest in plus-sized fruit, like Georgia Tech’s David Hu, this raises an interesting physics question: how can the pumpkin get so big without breaking?