Pygmy tarsiers are primates with huge eyes that cannot move, so they have heads that can turn 180 degrees. Thought extinct for 85 years, they have been found in a cloud forest in Indonesia.
Pygmy Tarsier
Credit: Sharon Gursky-Doyen/Texas A&M University
A 4-D microscope (the fourth dimension being time) allows researchers to study chemical reactions on the molecular level. There are also video demonstrations online, like one of DNA unfolding.
4-D electron microscopy
Credit: Nano Letters; images and diagram produced at Caltech
I’m digging the wind turbine videos. When do we get to see them fight?
-BMF
Comment by BMF — November 25, 2008 @ 9:23 am
Thanks for not riding the media’s jock by calling the Tarsier a Furby look alike. The Tarsier lacks a beak and IR port on it’s head. :)
Comment by John — November 25, 2008 @ 7:13 pm
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