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Wasps have a good memory for a face Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 68 seconds Global video hits: 15977 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 video round-up - June 20, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 174 seconds Global video hits: 110616 See the first ever footage of human ovulation: http://www.newscient ist.com/channel/bein g-human/dn14155?DCMP =NLC-youtube Watch how prototypes of lunar vehicles, spacesuits and robots are being tested and look at the first video of a metal-eating pest: http://technology.ne wscientist.com/artic le/dn14175?DCMP=NLC- youtube Related: lunar, metal, nasa, ovary, ovulation, pest, reaction, spacesuit, tin, vehicle |
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New Scientist video round-up - April 25, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 212 seconds Global video hits: 43314 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 - September 19, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 202 seconds Global video hits: 68544 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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Shape-shifting robot forms from magnetic swarm Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 73 seconds Global video hits: 337839 Read more: http://technology.ne wscientist.com/artic le/dn13244-shapeshif ting-robot-forms-fro m-magnetic-swarm.htm l See some prototypes of robot swarms created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. Related: carnegie, electric, magnetic, mellon, robot, shape, shifting, swarm |
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Acrobatic geckos steer with their tails Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 80 seconds Global video hits: 25789 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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Which primate has the fastest sperm? Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 173 seconds Global video hits: 11459 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: 10729 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 -- June 06, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 284 seconds Global video hits: 5455 The Pitcher plant is a carnivore that uses water to make more effective insect traps. Fake engine noise makes electric cars safer Zombie caterpillar controlled by voodoo wasps Related: auto, autos, botany, cars, engine, environment, fly, hybrid, mpg, noise, pitcher, prius, safety, sounds, stanford, trap, triffid, venus |
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New Scientist video round-up - July 4, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 160 seconds Global video hits: 28070 Watch leaf-cutter ants that can navigate low bridges: http://www.newscient ist.com/channel/life /dn14234?DCMP=youtub e See mites that protect the wasps that carry them and find out about some picturesque computer passwords. Related: ants, mites, passwords, picture, 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: 88177 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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New Scientist video round-up - September 26, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 222 seconds Global video hits: 8842 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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Human ovulation captured on film Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 56 seconds Global video hits: 990580 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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New Scientist video round-up - August 1, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 162 seconds Global video hits: 10409 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 video round-up - May 16, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 197 seconds Global video hits: 51914 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 |
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New Scientist video round-up -- June 13, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 265 seconds Global video hits: 15306 Watch robotic fish, Diet coke explosions and natural underwater CO2 acidification. Related: co2, coke, diet, fish, mentos, new, robot, scientist, underwater |
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New Scientist video round-up - September 12, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 195 seconds Global video hits: 6622 Find out why some bees do the wave, see a spyplane that's been modified to transport blood samples: http://technology.ne wscientist.com/artic le/dn14718?DCMP=yout ube And see the first images from the LHC when it was switched on earlier this week. Related: bees, blood, bumblebee, collider, first, hadron, images, large, lhc, nest, plane, sample, spyplane, swarm, transport, wave |
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New Scientist video round-up - February 8, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 187 seconds Global video hits: 13657 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 10, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 233 seconds Global video hits: 6338 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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New Scientist science and technology news Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 465 seconds Global video hits: 14956 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 - January 18, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 157 seconds Global video hits: 3006 Read more: http://www.newscient ist.com/channel/bein g-human/mg19726394.6 00-learning-language -with-the-singalong- neurons.html http://technology .newscientist.com/ch annel/tech/mg1972639 6.000-critter-cams-r eveal-animal-secrets .html Watch some monkeys control a robot with their brain waves, find out how bird brains may be similar to human brains, see some tricky ants and more. Related: ants, berries, brain, duke, eagle, flight, mirror, monkeys, neurons, paralyzed, parasite, swallows, trick, university, waves |
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New Scientist video round-up Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 243 seconds Global video hits: 16119 A round-up of recent science video clips featured by New Scientist. Related: clips, new, science, scientist, technology, video |
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New Scientist video round-up - May 23, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 168 seconds Global video hits: 77477 See a video of a robotic grasshopper that can jump higher than any other robot: http://technology .newscientist.com/ch annel/tech/dn13951 Find out if four wings makes dragonflies more efficient at flying and watch a new system that could keep passengers safe in the event of a car crash. Related: car, crash, dragonfly, flight, grasshopper, robot, safety, wings |
