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Wasps have a good memory for a face Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 68 seconds Global video hits: 19372 Read more: http://www.newscient ist.com/article/dn14 776?DCMP=youtube Researchers have found that wasps can recognise wasps they've met before even after a busy 10 days apart. Related: memory, recognition, social, wasps |
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New Scientist recreates a robot made by the ancient Greeks Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 122 seconds Global video hits: 93900 Technology feature editor Ben Crystall explains how he recreated a programmable robot dating from 60AD. More here: http://www.newsci entisttech.com/chann el/tech/mg19526111.6 00 Related: ancientgreece, newscientist, programmable, robot |
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Total solar eclipse wows viewers in China Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 167 seconds Global video hits: 69187 Read more: http://space.newscie ntist.com/article/dn 14483?DCMP=youtube New Scientist reporter Phil McKenna covers the eclipse on 1 August 2008 from China. Related: 2008, august, china, desert, eclipse, gobi |
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New Scientist video round-up - April 25, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 212 seconds Global video hits: 44489 Watch a robot-mongoose pair sniff out landmines: http://technology .newscientist.com/ch annel/tech/mg1982653 5.900-mongooserobot- duo-sniff-out-landmi nes-on-the-cheap.htm l See robots compete in the RoboCup competition : http://technology.ne wscientist.com/chann el/tech/dn13744-resc ue-robots-compete-to -save-dolls-in-distr ess.html Related: explosives, landmines, mongoose, rescue, robocup, robot, sniff, soccer |
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New Scientist video round-up - October 10, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 233 seconds Global video hits: 32197 Read more: http://www.newscient ist.com/ Carbon material gives more grip than gecko feet. Deepest-living fishes caught on camera for the first time. Digital zebrafish embryo provides the first complete developmental blueprint of a vertebrate. Related: adhesive, animals, deepest, fish, gecko, grip, living, nanotubes, nature, newscientist, newscientistvideo, science, seafloor |
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Human ovulation captured on film Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 56 seconds Global video hits: 1027693 Read more: http://www.newscient ist.com/article/dn14 155?DCMP=NLC-youtube Belgian researchers have captured ovulation on film for the first time. Related: footage, ovulation, video |
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Which primate has the fastest sperm? Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 173 seconds Global video hits: 13279 More: http://www.newscient ist.com/channel/bein g-human/dn12345 Researchers at the University of California San Diego compared the sperm swimming speed of chimps, macaques humans and gorillas. They looked at whether more promiscuous primates had faster sperm. Related: chimp, gorilla, human, macaque, primate, promiscuous, speed, sperm |
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New Scientist video round-up - December 21, 2007 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 218 seconds Global video hits: 12007 Find out how a new technique could sharpen up your digital photos, watch a galaxy collide with a particle beam, see the world through the eyes of an owl and more... Related: beam, chess, digital, eye, galaxy, learn, movement, owl, particle, photo, robot, sharpen, vision |
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New Scientist video round-up - August 1, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 162 seconds Global video hits: 11132 Watch randy male fish that don't like competition from other males: http://www.newscient ist.com/article/dn14 438?DCMP=youtube Find out about a new robot that can optimally position limbs in an MRI scanner to get the best images of tissues: See how bee foraging patterns could help the police track down serial killers: http://www.newscient ist.com/article/dn14 423?DCMP=youtube Related: angle, bees, competition, fish, killer, male, mating, mri, robot, scanner, science, serial, vodcast |
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New Scientist science and technology news Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 465 seconds Global video hits: 15579 Science and technology news featuring dancing robots, amazing optical illusions and the latest on depression research. For more science and tech news visit: www.newscientist. com www.newscientistt ech.com www.space.newscie ntist.com www.environment.n ewscientist.com Related: dancing, depression, experiments, ideas, new, new+scientist, rats, robots, science, scientist, technology |
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New Scientist video round-up - September 19, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 202 seconds Global video hits: 70525 See underwater life that glows red, fungi that shoot out spores with the fastest acceleration ever seen in nature and a new bus that's steered by a computer. Related: acceleration, algae, automated, bus, corals, fastest, fish, fungi, path, red, spore, steer |
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Acrobatic geckos steer with their tails Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 80 seconds Global video hits: 30152 Read more: http://www.newscient ist.com/article/dn13 481 Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are finding out that a gecko's tail plays an important role in its movement. Related: gecko, glide, movement, robot, slip, steer, tail |
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New Scientist video round-up - August 22, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 184 seconds Global video hits: 14450 Watch some magpies that can recognise themselves in the mirror: http://www.newscient ist.com/channel/life /dn14552?DCMP=youtub e Find out about a new technique to create ultra-realistic jellyfish and see the first evidence of monkey democracy: http://www.newscient ist.com/article/mg19 926703.500?DCMP=yout ube Related: animation, bird, collective, decisions, democracy, jellyfish, macaque, magpie, mirror, monkey, recognize, reflection, self |
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New Scientist video round-up - September 26, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 222 seconds Global video hits: 9766 Find out about a robotic dragonfly that could soon be sent to space, wasps that recognise recent acquaintances and a study that shows that babies may be less forgetful than we think. Related: babies, brain, dragonfly, face, flap, mars, memory, robot, robotic, titan, wasps, wings |
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New Scientist video round-up - July 18, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 182 seconds Global video hits: 12946 Find out what human speech has in common with fish grunts: http://media.newscie ntist.com/article/dn 14353?DCMP=youtube See a view of the Earth captured from 50 million kilometers away: http://space.newscie ntist.com/article/dn 14351?DCMP=youtube Find out why pears rot faster than apples: http://www.newscient ist.com/channel/life /dn14319?DCMP=youtub e Related: apples, earth, fish, human, moon, pears, rot, round-up, sounds, speech |
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New Scientist video round-up - February 8, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 187 seconds Global video hits: 13791 Read more: http://www.newscient ist.com/channel/life /dn13271-helpful-bab oon-dads-boost-offsp rings-success.html http://technology .newscientist.com/ar ticle/dn13287-knee-d evice-makes-phone-ch arging-a-walk-in-the -park.html Find out how flocks of birds interact when they fly, learn more about baboon parenting, and see a new device that could allow you to power gadgets while on the move. Related: baboon, birds, device, dynamo, fathers, flock, generator, knee, parenting, power, starlings |
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New Scientist video round-up - October 03, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 254 seconds Global video hits: 24320 See a fruit fly undergo a driving simulation, a car powered entirely by steam, and find out what makes birds sing faster. Related: alternative, animals, engine, fly, flyborg, fruit, fuel, newscientist, newscientistvideo, robotics, robots, science, steam, steamcar |
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New Scientist video round-up - February 15, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 156 seconds Global video hits: 5224 Read more: http://space.newscie ntist.com/article/dn 13322 Find out how flies navigate with both sight and smell, why climate change threatens emperor penguins, and the latest addition to the tally of extrasolar planets Related: climate, endangered, flies, micro-lensing, navigate, penguin, planet, space |
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New Scientist video round-up - May 9, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 148 seconds Global video hits: 32777 Find out what the sequencing of the platypus genome has revealed about this unusual animal: http://www.newscient ist.com/channel/life /dn13854 See how electromagnets could soon be used to keep spacecraft in formation: http://space.newscie ntist.com/article/dn 13846 and watch a simulation of an exploding star. Related: dwarf, electromagnets, exploding, genome, magnetic, pplatypus, sequencing, simulation, spacecraft, star, supernova, white |
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Gene therapy success 'reverses' blindness Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 83 seconds Global video hits: 12503 Read more: http://www.newscient ist.com/article/dn13 783-gene-therapy-suc cess-reverses-blindn ess.html?DCMP=ILC-hm ts&nsref=news1_head_ dn13783 Two experimental studies have shown that gene therapy could treat a rare form of hereditary blindness. Related: blind, blindness, eye, gene, surgery, therapy, treatment |
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New Scientist video round-up - May 16, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 197 seconds Global video hits: 52341 Find out if climbing is as easy as walking for small primates: http://www.newscient ist.com/article/dn13 911 Watch some birds that can pump up water droplets with their beaks: http://www.newscient ist.com/article/dn13 906 And see what researchers are finding out about polar ice caps on Mars. Related: beak, bird, climb, energy, ice, layers, mars, oxygen, polar, primate, pump, walk, water |
