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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.
Malcolm Beck was farming organically in the 1950s, and that's how he got into compost. What started out as a little manure pile on his farm became a 40-acre compost-processing business five decades later. Beck sold his company, Garden Ville, but still works there and is constantly experimenting with different fertilizer formulas--from bat guano to earthworm tea.