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Wasps have a good memory for a face Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 68 seconds Global video hits: 13263 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: 110405 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: 43185 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 - August 1, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 162 seconds Global video hits: 10295 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 - September 19, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 202 seconds Global video hits: 66653 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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New Scientist video round-up - December 21, 2007 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 218 seconds Global video hits: 10619 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 recreates a robot made by the ancient Greeks Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 122 seconds Global video hits: 87918 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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Acrobatic geckos steer with their tails Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 80 seconds Global video hits: 25371 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 -- June 13, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 265 seconds Global video hits: 15263 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 - May 16, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 197 seconds Global video hits: 51897 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 - July 4, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 160 seconds Global video hits: 28026 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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Human ovulation captured on film Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 56 seconds Global video hits: 987467 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 -- June 06, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 284 seconds Global video hits: 5424 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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Is this the theory of everything? Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 143 seconds Global video hits: 207297 Read more: http://www.newscient ist.com/article/mg19 626303.900 This elegant model by Garrett Lisi may at last reveal the link between gravity and the other fundamental forces of nature. Related: everything, forces, garrett, gravity, lisi, model, of, theory |
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New Scientist video round-up - September 12, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 195 seconds Global video hits: 6537 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 - May 9, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 148 seconds Global video hits: 31791 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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New Scientist video round-up - February 8, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 187 seconds Global video hits: 13637 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 - January 18, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 157 seconds Global video hits: 2995 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 science and technology news Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 465 seconds Global video hits: 14912 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 - August 22, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 184 seconds Global video hits: 14104 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 - May 2, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 191 seconds Global video hits: 13174 Find out why researchers are putting flies in a virtual reality system: http://technology.ne wscientist.com/chann el/tech/dn13814 Watch female spiders that can see ultraviolet rays and see meerkats teach their young how to hunt scorpions: http://www.newscient ist.com/channel/life /dn13807 Related: female, fly, fruit, hunt, instinct, intelligence, mating, meerkat, reality, scorpion, spiders, ultraviolet, uv, virtual, vr |
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New Scientist video round-up - September 26, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 222 seconds Global video hits: 8214 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 - May 23, 2008 Posted by: newscientistvideo
Video duration: 168 seconds Global video hits: 77446 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 |
