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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.
Convincing a rat to run on a treadmill is just another day at the office for the researchers at the Concord Field Station (CFS), a Harvard lab located in Bedford, Mass. The lab focuses on comparative biomechanics, which requires lots of animals--including an emu, parrots, jerboas, goats--and lots of devices to document their movement.