Fire tornadoes are rare in nature, but when they do start spinning they're even hotter than a regular fire. James Williams gets an explanation on how and why they occur from a fire protection expert.
Nature
Apes Giggle Like Humans
Apes laugh similar to humans, according to new research exploring the evolution of laughter. James Williams takes a look at the video. NOTE: You can hear the gorilla laughing in the background...it's a low, breathy sounding laugh
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NASA | Hurricane Scientist talks GRIP, Hurricane Earl
NASA's Hurricane expert Dr. Jeff Halverson explains how NASA's GRIP mission is keeping a close eye on Hurricane Earl and other storms over the Atlantic. Scientists use data collected from NASA's DC-8, Global Hawk and WB-57 aircraft to study the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Process that hurricanes undergo as they become major storms.
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Elder - The Devil's Tree
Why do Elder trees have an association with The Devil?
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Killer Jellyfish - Irukandji
Tiny. Invisible. Lethal. Known to kill humans not by the toxic venom, but from the shock the body suffers from the unimaginable pain of an Irukandji sting
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Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Duck - Ig Nobel Prizes
Ig Nobel Prizes
First Laugh, Then Think!
Kees Moeliker won the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology in 2003 for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck. In other words, Mr. Moeliker, who is the curator of the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, was witness of the fact that a male duck raped another male duck, which was already dead!
Ig Nobel Prizes are the not-so-well-known alternative of the famous Nobel Prizes. Each year since 1989, ten scientists receive prizes for "research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK".
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Fish vs. Turtle
Don't touch my kids :)
Emperor cichlid parents push and shove a much heavier terrapin to protect their young from being eaten.
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Evolution: Artificial Selection
Clip from, "Carl Sagan's Cosmos"
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Through the Wormhole: DNA
Amazing series
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Digital fly embryo
New imaging technique creates 3D animation of developing fly embryos that can't be seen under a microscope
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