Colorado College ornithology professor Brian Linkhart has studied Flammulated owls in Colorado for almost 30 years. The video, submitted by Dakin Henderson, investigates all aspects of the study: the science, the people, the setting, and the owls themselves.
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High school science teacher Sam Terfa wanted to demonstrate a fundamental physics principle: resonant frequency. So found the best singer at Minnehaha Academy and had him serenade a wine glass. It did not turn out well for the glass.
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Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, was filmed shaking his tail feathers to the Backstreet Boys. It was a YouTube sensation. A couple of neuroscientists saw the video and decided to look into it.
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SciFri producer Annette Heist’s terrier was sprayed by a skunk, sending her looking for a deodorizing remedy. Chemists William Wood and Paul Krebaum explain how to neutralize the stinky skunk spray molecules, and debunk the tomato juice treatment.
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Agave plants, probably best known as the source of tequila, were important as a food crop long before the invention of the margarita. Botanist Wendy Hodgson takes us into the Arizona desert to see ancient agave gardens where pre-Columbian farmers were cultivating these ...
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Anthropologist Bill Jungers shows off a new cast of the most complete skeleton of Homo floresiensis — also known as the “hobbit.” The hominid, which lived 17,000 years ago, was about sixty pounds and just over three feet tall. Jungers explains how the bones--particular...
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Shake a metal plate covered in sand at certain frequencies and mysterious patterns appear. Find out why the demonstration, published in 1787 by Ernst Chladni, still captivates scientists and students today.
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This small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) takes off like a helicopter but flies like an airplane. The vehicle, named V-Bat, can fly at over 100 mph for more than five hours. Stephen Morris, the president of the company that designed the prototype, explains how it works.
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