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SciFri: What is a ...
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18:00:00 06/08/12

SciFri: What is a Flame?

Added 06/08/12
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SciFri: What is a Flame?

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SciFri: Finding Gl...
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18:00:00 06/01/12

Forget fireflies, try glow-in-the-dark millipedes.

SciFri: Finding Glow-in-the-Dark Millipedes

Added 06/01/12
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SciFri: Finding Glow-in-the-Dark Millipedes

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Forget fireflies, try glow-in-the-dark millipedes.

SciFri: From The A...
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18:00:00 05/25/12

A look back at a farmer's battle with late blight during the summer of 2009.

SciFri: From The Archive: Battling Blight

Added 05/25/12
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SciFri: From The Archive: Battling Blight

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A look back at a farmer's battle with late blight during the summer of 2009.

SciFri: Bon Appeti...
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18:00:00 05/18/12

Some New Yorkers are taking “locavore” to the next level -- eating snails from the yard, foraging mushrooms in the parks. Super foragers Anya Pozdeeva and Christop...

SciFri: Bon Appetit, From The Backyard

Added 05/18/12
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SciFri: Bon Appetit, From The Backyard

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Some New Yorkers are taking “locavore” to the next level -- eating snails from the yard, foraging mushrooms in the parks. Super foragers Anya Pozdeeva and Christopher Toole, of Vertically Integrated Farms, share foraging tips, and explain their plan to turn New York City into a food production center through apartment-fish-farms and food forests.

SciFri: Cracking t...
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18:00:00 05/04/12

If you spin a hard-boiled egg in a pool of milk, the milk will wick up the sides of the egg and spray off at the egg’s equator. Engineer Tadd Truscott launched an ...

SciFri: Cracking the Egg Sprinkler Mystery

Added 05/04/12
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SciFri: Cracking the Egg Sprinkler Mystery

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If you spin a hard-boiled egg in a pool of milk, the milk will wick up the sides of the egg and spray off at the egg’s equator. Engineer Tadd Truscott launched an investigation to figure out why this happens -- complete with a custom-built spinning apparatus, billiard balls and high speed video cameras.

Cracking The Egg Sp...
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14:10:00 05/04/12

If you spin a hard-boiled egg in a pool of milk, the milk will wick up the sides of the egg and spray off at the egg’s equator. Engineer Tadd Truscott launched an ...

Cracking The Egg Sprinkler Mystery

Added 05/04/12
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Cracking The Egg Sprinkler Mystery

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If you spin a hard-boiled egg in a pool of milk, the milk will wick up the sides of the egg and spray off at the egg’s equator. Engineer Tadd Truscott launched an investigation to figure out why this happens -- complete with a custom-built spinning apparatus, billiard balls and high speed video cameras.

SciFri: Pied Piper...
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18:00:00 04/27/12

Mechanical engineer Maurizio Porfiri designs robot fish. A few years ago, he found that real fish would mill about his aquatic robot, and now he’s trying to unders...

SciFri: Pied Piper of Fish

Added 04/27/12
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SciFri: Pied Piper of Fish

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Mechanical engineer Maurizio Porfiri designs robot fish. A few years ago, he found that real fish would mill about his aquatic robot, and now he’s trying to understand why. His research suggests that it has less to do with how the robot looks, than how it makes fish feel.

Building The Pied P...
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14:10:00 04/27/12

Mechanical engineer Maurizio Porfiri designs robot fish. A few years ago, he found that real fish would mill about his aquatic robot, and now he’s trying to unders...

Building The Pied Piper Of Fish

Added 04/27/12
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Building The Pied Piper Of Fish

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Mechanical engineer Maurizio Porfiri designs robot fish. A few years ago, he found that real fish would mill about his aquatic robot, and now he’s trying to understand why. His research suggests that it has less to do with how the robot looks, than how it makes fish feel.

SciFri: Untangling...
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18:00:00 04/20/12

Kelly Ward, senior software engineer for Walt Disney Animation Studios, was tasked with bringing Rapunzel's locks to life in Disney's Tangled. The hair had to look...

SciFri: Untangling the Hairy Physics of Rapunzel

Added 04/20/12
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SciFri: Untangling the Hairy Physics of Rapunzel

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Kelly Ward, senior software engineer for Walt Disney Animation Studios, was tasked with bringing Rapunzel's locks to life in Disney's Tangled. The hair had to look realistic, but not too real — otherwise Rapunzel would be towing 80 pounds of hair behind her.

Untangling The Hair...
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14:10:00 04/20/12

Kelly Ward, senior software engineer for Walt Disney Animation Studios, was tasked with bringing Rapunzel's locks to life in Disney's Tangled. The hair had to look...

Untangling The Hairy Physics Of Rapunzel

Added 04/20/12
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Untangling The Hairy Physics Of Rapunzel

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Kelly Ward, senior software engineer for Walt Disney Animation Studios, was tasked with bringing Rapunzel's locks to life in Disney's Tangled. The hair had to look realistic, but not too real — otherwise Rapunzel would be towing 80 pounds of hair behind her.

SciFri: Desktop Di...
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18:00:00 04/13/12

Ecologist Edward O. Wilson takes us on a tour of his office, located in Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Wilson, who has studied ants for 60 yea...

SciFri: Desktop Diaries: E. O. Wilson

Added 04/13/12
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SciFri: Desktop Diaries: E. O. Wilson

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Ecologist Edward O. Wilson takes us on a tour of his office, located in Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Wilson, who has studied ants for 60 years and has won two Pulitzer prizes for his writing, shows off Harvard's ant collection (the largest in the world), plays a backwoods fiddle and explains how he looks to Darwin (a bobble head doll, in this case) for encouragement.

SciFri: Desktop Di...
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18:00:00 04/13/12

Ecologist Edward O. Wilson takes us on a tour of his office, located in Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Wilson, who has studied ants for 60 yea...

SciFri: Desktop Diaries: E. O. Wilson

Added 04/13/12
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SciFri: Desktop Diaries: E. O. Wilson

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Ecologist Edward O. Wilson takes us on a tour of his office, located in Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Wilson, who has studied ants for 60 years and has won two Pulitzer prizes for his writing, shows off Harvard's ant collection (the largest in the world), plays a backwoods fiddle and explains how he looks to Darwin (a bobble head doll, in this case) for encouragement.

Desktop Diaries: E....
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14:10:00 04/13/12

Ecologist Edward O. Wilson takes us on a tour of his office, located in Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Wilson, who has studied ants for 60 yea...

Desktop Diaries: E.O. Wilson

Added 04/13/12
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Desktop Diaries: E.O. Wilson

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Ecologist Edward O. Wilson takes us on a tour of his office, located in Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Wilson, who has studied ants for 60 years and has won two Pulitzer prizes for his writing, shows off Harvard's ant collection (the largest in the world), plays a backwoods fiddle and explains how he looks to Darwin (a bobble head doll, in this case) for encouragement.

SciFri: Coyotes Cr...
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18:00:00 04/06/12

Coyotes have been spotted in the Bronx, Queens and even Manhattan. Wildlife biologist Mark Weckel has been documenting their immigration to New York City through "...

SciFri: Coyotes Cruise NYC

Added 04/06/12
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SciFri: Coyotes Cruise NYC

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Coyotes have been spotted in the Bronx, Queens and even Manhattan. Wildlife biologist Mark Weckel has been documenting their immigration to New York City through "camera traps" he has set up in the city parks. Weckel explains the project and shares some of his best coyote footage.

SciFri: Why Spider...
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18:00:00 03/30/12

William Eberhard, of the Smithsonian Tropic Research Institute and the University of Costa Rica, and colleague Daniel Briceno film spiders in the lab, in the field...

SciFri: Why Spiders Don't Stick To The Web

Added 03/30/12
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SciFri: Why Spiders Don't Stick To The Web

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William Eberhard, of the Smithsonian Tropic Research Institute and the University of Costa Rica, and colleague Daniel Briceno film spiders in the lab, in the field and under a dissecting microscope to untangle this longstanding arachnological mystery. The secret to not getting stuck? Oily, hairy legs and delicate movements.

Coyotes Cruise NYC
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14:10:00 03/30/12

William Eberhard, of the Smithsonian Tropic Research Institute and the University of Costa Rica, and colleague Daniel Briceno film spiders in the lab, in the field...

Coyotes Cruise NYC

Added 03/30/12
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Coyotes Cruise NYC

[LESS INFO] 2455 VIEWS | ADDED 14:10:00 03/30/12
William Eberhard, of the Smithsonian Tropic Research Institute and the University of Costa Rica, and colleague Daniel Briceno film spiders in the lab, in the field and under a dissecting microscope to untangle this longstanding arachnological mystery. The secret to not getting stuck? Oily, hairy legs and delicate movements.

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When Is A Moth Like A Hummingbird?

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When Is A Moth Like A Hummingbird?
11/04/11

A hawk moth feeds by hovering in front of flowers and slurping nectar through a proboscis, basically a body-length straw. To understand how these moths keep such a precise position in the air, Tyson Hedrick, a biomechanist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tried destabilizing moths in a variety of different ways and tracked their responses using high speed cameras.