Video can capture science in action like nothing else – and Â鶹´«Ã½ has scoured the web to bring you the 10 best clips posted this month.
10 Microrobot challenge
At a recent conference in Anchorage, Alaska, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology put to the test. With a microchip as their playing field, they battled it out in a number of events.
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9 Robotic worms
Most robots have rigid bodies, but these supple robotic caterpillars are an exception. at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, took inspiration from giant green caterpillars for their design.
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8 Drunk worms
It seems like the punishment for a drunken night out isn’t uniquely human.
A team lead by at the University of Southampton, UK, and found that they suffer writhe-inducing hangovers.
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7 Nuke an oil leak?
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill continues to ravage the Gulf of Mexico. Some have suggested extreme measures to stop the flow. A vintage propaganda film shows the nuclear option – literally: Soviet engineers nuking a blown-out natural gas well.
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6 Supercooled water
It’s not a magic trick: it is possible to instantly freeze a bottle of water by giving it a whack. The water will first have to be supercooled though, as demonstrated in a video by a team from the French and and the .
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5 Images from Mars Express
Now we don’t have to imagine the view from Mars orbit. A time-lapse video from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft takes us on a spin around the planet.
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4 First view of HIV spreading
How does HIV spread from an infected cell to a healthy one? A team from the University of California, Davis, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York captured the process on video for the first time. By dying viral particles with a fluorescent green dye, they were able to see the infection in action.
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3 Kilauea volcano, Hawaii
You’ve probably never watched an active lava pond on a volcano up close. See what you’re missing in new thermal video footage captured by a team from the US Geological Survey.
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2 Sky above Cotopaxi, Ecuador
The starry southern hemisphere above the Cotopaxi volcano is a sight to behold. Some new video footage shot by shows shooting stars, the Coalsack nebula, the Southern Cross and the Milky Way. He even captured the flashlights from a group of climbers near the end of the video.
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1 Mini autonomous helicopters
These miniature robot helicopters can perform some mean stunts. A model developed at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia can flip, swarm, perch, and fly through windows.
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