A lot of primetime TV shows get mileage out of “ripped from the headlines” plots, but in the case of Thursday’s episode of Person of Interest o...
Baby Sharks Birthed in Artificial Uterus
An artificial uterus, designed to give live birth to sharks, rests in the lab of the Port Stephens Fisheries Institute, in the New South Wales. It’s an atypical maternity ward.
The uterus, a series of tanks, tubes and fluid-exchange systems, is a proof-of-concept for now. But one day it could boost the dwindling numbers of the grey nurse shark.
Nick Otway, a fisheries biologist, was charged with devising a plan to breed this threatened shark with a bizarre reproductive cycle. In a paper published in Zoo Biology, Sept. 8, he and his colleague Megan Ellis, report they have done just that.
Grey...
Sneak Peek: ATM Skimming On Person of Interest
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By Angela Watercutter
- September 29, 2011 |
- 1:56 pm |
- Categories: television, video
Wind Walker
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Dutch artist Theo Jansen made his name creating intricate and elegantly haunting 30-foot-long plastic creatures that walk on their own, powered by the wind. Now his contraptions are spawning home versions. Working with Gakken — a Japanese publisher with a science bent — Jansen is offering a Mini Strandbeest kit based on one of his full-scale designs.
The 8-inch model is as complex as its forebear, with 120 parts that snap together to form 12 jointed legs, a spinelike crankshaft, and a wind...
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