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A new line of camouflage was designed with deer eyes in mind.

Of the suit he wore on the moon, Neil Armstrong wrote, "it was tough, reliable, and almost cuddly." But that cuddly suit, made by the company Playtex, had some stiff competition (literally) from rival rigid, metal designs. This video features archival NASA footage of mobility tests for several spacesuit prototypes. Music is from the band One Ring Zero's album "Planets".

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With its fanned plumage and bold strut, a male wild turkey's display conjures images of Americana and festive feasts. But this grandstanding isn't intended for human eyes - it's for female turkeys who actually use it to discern a male's genetic prowess. How exactly she parses his performance to pick her suitor can be a fairly complex enterprise but thanks to the research of Dr. Richard Buchholz of the University of Mississippi, we have some clues as to what a female turkey finds "hot" in a male.
Produced by Luke Groskin
Footage ands Stills Provided by
Pronghorn Productions - www.pronghornproductions.comRichard Buchholz, Ph.d.
Pond5,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Sgt. White Knight YT User (C.C. 3.0)
"Light Curve on the Road" (C.C. 3.0)
Music by Audio Network, Ponchielli, "Dance of the Hours"

The axolotl is a Mexican salamander with an incredible ability: Cut its leg off, and the limb will grow right back! How it does this and why humans can't is still a bit of a mystery. Researchers like Susan Bryant of UC Irvine are studying these amphibians to understand the underlying mechanisms for their miraculous regenerative powers.
Produced by Christian Baker
Music by Audio Network
Additional Stills and Video by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dr. Susan Bryant, Dr. David Gardiner, and Dr. Akira Satoh

"Disturbingly informative," is how museum director Robert Hicks describes Philadelphia's Mütter Museum--items of interest include a gangrenous hand, wax models of extinct diseases, deformed bones and body parts. Now imagine what's in the basement. Science Friday got a behind-the-scenes tour.

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Armed with appetites and attitudes, brush-clearing goats will mow down weeds and shrubs from even the steepest of Southern California's hillsides. Perfectly adapted to a life of constant browsing, these ruminants are being deployed as a shield against the region's rampant wildfires. We join Ian Newsam, owner of Brush Goats 4 Hire, and his "elite" herd of goats as they reduce the invasive plants and fuel that contributes to the fires.

Produced by Luke Groskin
Music by Audio Network

Additional Stills and Video Courtesy
Henry the Goat, California Office of Emergency Management, U.S. Geological Survey, Youtube User "thatlocalsportsguy"

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In the orderly arenas of the Westminster Dog Show, we're encouraged to judge dogs and their behavior using stereotypes based solely on dog breed. But data distilled from doggie behaviorist James Serpell's massive study of more than 80,000 individual dog profiles revealed that outside of the show ring, there's a lot of behavioral variation within any given breed, particularly when it comes to aggression.

You don't need a time machine to marvel at the hot broth of quarks and gluons that made up all matter a microsecond after the Big Bang. You just need a ticket on the Long Island Railroad. Using massive feats of engineering, Brookhaven National Laboratory has devised a recipe for cooking up tiny ephemeral batches of this quark-gluon soup, a fluid which physicists Paul Sorensen say is the most "perfect" fluid ever discovered.
Produced by Luke Groskin, Music by Audio Network, Additional Footage and Stills by Brookhaven National Laboratory NASA and Shutterstock

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Legend holds that the length of woolly bear caterpillar's color bands can be used to forecast how severe the winter weather will be. The myth dates back to colonial American folklore but was popularized by a 1948 study. SciFri finds out if there's any truth to the lore, and what the caterpillar's fuzzy bristles are really used for.

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The Tuvan throat-singing band Alash Ensemble has toured the world demonstrating both their cultural heritage as well as their vocal mastery. Their incredible ability to sing low and high notes simultaneously has inspired wonder and a deep appreciation for their craft. But how they achieve these otherworldly sounds hasn't been extensively explored. With the help of speech pathologist Aaron Johnson, we'll look inside the human vocal tract to see how these talented singers create their signature sounds.
Produced by Luke Groskin
Audio Recording by Alexa Lim
Music by Alash Ensemble ( http://www.alashensemble.com )
Additional Stills and Video by
Steve Sklar / Skysong Productions - http://skysongpro.com/
Pond5
NYU Langone Voice Center
The Chevy Chase Show , Fox Network
Special Thanks to Rachel Bouton!

Find out why this special ice cream stretches like silly putty. It's all in the molecules.

Carve first, scoop later--that's just one of the tips from Maniac Pumpkin Carvers Marc and Chris. Based in Brooklyn, these professional illustrators switch to the medium of pumpkin during October. They carve hundreds of pumpkins each fall, which go for a few hundred bucks and rarely end up on stoops. They gave us some tips for how to bring our pumpkins to the next level this Halloween.

Despite their speed and power, Avalanches are not entirely unpredictable forces of nature. Using field tests and deep understanding under how to identify weaknesses in the snow pack, staff from the Utah Avalanche Center forecast avalanches and take preventative measures.
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Filmed by Manjula Varghese
Music by Audio Network
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What happens when you give hundreds of puppies a single bowl of food? Mechanical engineer, David Hu, is trying to solve this problem with physics…and maggots.

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Filmed by Brandon Swanson
Music by Audio Network
Additional Footage ands Stills Provided by David Hu, Olga Shishkov,
Grubbly Farms, Pond5, and Levi Anderson (CC BY 2.0)

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We all know that squids use ink to disguise themselves while making a quick getaway, but what other uses might ink serve? Stephanie "Stephalopod" Bush, a scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), suggests that these crafty cephalopods might use ink to attract a mate, repel a predator, or even confuse their prey.
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Music by Audio Network
Pygmy squid footage courtesy Dr. Noriyosi Sato
Additional Squid Footage by MBARI

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The guests at the WorMotel check in with a plop. Each guest has a private room, cozy and controlled temperatures, and enough food to last a lifetime. There’s just one catch: They can never leave. Featuring a silicone plate with an array of 240 wells that host tiny nematodes, the WorMotel is the creation of researchers in the Fang-Yen Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Researchers to study thousands of the worms at a time in the hopes of revealing which of their 20,000 genes control aging.

Produced by Luke Groskin
Music by Daniel Peterschmidt and Audio Network
Additional Stills Provided by Matt Churgin and Chris Fang-Yen
Special Thanks to the Fang-Yen Laboratory

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We expect that our clothing won't tear or fade after one wearing and its dyes won't bleed in the wash. But confidence in our clothing shouldn't be taken for granted. It owes much to an oft-overlooked field of study - textile quality assurance. Professor Sean Cormier of the Fashion Institute of Technology details the rigorous yet fun tests that ensure your clothing doesn't just match your aesthetic standards - but meets a universal criteria for durability, color-fastness, construction and safety.
Produced by Luke Groskin
Music by Audio Network
Additional Stills and Video Courtesy of Prelinger Archives Shutterstock

In 2014, Manhattanhenge will be on May 29-30 and July 11-12. Find out more info on the American Museum of Natural History's site: http://www.amnh.org/our-resear....ch/hayden-planetariu

Twice a year, the sunset lines up with New York City's street grid -- making for spectacular views. Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, identified the cosmic event over a decade ago and coined it Manhattanhenge. In this video from 2009, we watched the sun from 42nd Street, along with about 50 other astronomical enthusiasts.

Music by SYNTHAR.
Production assistance from Laura Pelcher.
Shot and produced by Flora Lichtman.

MC Frontalot, aka Damian Hess, makes a living rapping about data encryption, rare diseases, video games and the nerd life. When we stopped by his Brooklyn apartment, Frontalot described Nerdcore, his name for the genre, as "the inversion of the shame of geekery... into pride." Dr. Awkward, a California-based nerdcore rapper, says that people assume nerd rap is a joke: "But it's not really about the juxtaposition of those two worlds -- nerdiness and hip-hop -- it just happens to be nerds expressing themselves through hip-hop."

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Ever wondered how to milk a spider? In this archival video from 2007, Dr. Greta Binford, a researcher at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, extracts venom from a sleeping spider's fangs.
Video courtesy of Dr. Greta Binford and Vanessa Fawbush