Robert Martinez hunts lions. Not with a gun. Not like the “sportsman” archer/dentist who killed Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe. Martinez hunts them with his camera. Eleven cameras to be exact. And, as you can see in the video above, he has filmed some of the most captivating footage of Los Angeles mountain lions ever seen.
When Dolly the sheep died of lung disease and severe arthritis in 2003 after a relatively short seven year life, many scientists speculated that perhaps cloning had something to do with it. Could cloning an adult mammal, they wondered, make the clone adult-like right from birth. Maybe clones were not meant to live very long.
Scientists at McGill University have developed a robot that could conceivably rank as one of the world’s great artists. Well, sort of.
One thousand feet above Los Angeles, a new tourist attraction has people screaming.
Matt Gerard is floating high in the sky, learning to fly a hot air balloon, even though he will probably never do so again.
Dr. Chris Lowe’s phone has been ringing almost constantly. As the director of the Cal State Long Beach Shark Lab, Lowe is the go-to-guy for media and other scientists when they have questions about sharks. Recently, they’ve been wanting to know whether the waters here are safe for people—and with good reason.
When Pixar’s Finding Nemo was released in 2003, it unleashed a tidal wave of demand for the cute orange clownfish, the species that the character Nemo is based on. Sales of clownfish rose as much as 40%, according to some estimates. Some scientists were concerned that the population of the fish would be severely depleted if too many were caught in the wild. Aquarists, however, soon figured out how to breed clownfish in captivity, reducing the impact of lots of them being taken from coral reefs.
The Sea of Cortez is a dazzling pageant of nature. Scientists say this narrow sea between the Mexican mainland and the Baja California peninsula is one of the most biologically diverse bodies of water on the planet, home to more than 900 species of fish, thousands of species of invertebrates, and a wide array of marine mammals like sea lions, dolphins and whales. The late French explorer Jacques Cousteau once called the Sea of Cortez the world’s aquarium.
Who said infrastructure improvement was boring?
The American bison will soon join the bald eagle, the rose and the oak tree on the list of national “things” when the bearded, one-ton beast is officially named the national mammal.
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Car-crazed Californians caught a glimpse of what the future of car racing might look—and sound—like at the second annual Formula E series in Long Beach on April 2, the only U.S. stop on the Formula E tour this year.
The Grauer’s gorilla is on the precipice of extinction, a new report says.
It’s like Mission Impossible with tiny robots.
Sometimes playing God works.
Using the one of the newest tools in their arsenal, a quadcopter drone, scientists with the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary filmed rare behavior of humpback whales off the coast of Maui.
When Martin Scorsese needed to shoot a scene of a drunken Leonardo DiCaprio on a jet plane for the film The Wolf of Wall Street, he could have built his own fake fuselage, or rented a 747. Of course, that would also have cost several hundred thousand dollars.
Projection mapping is a rapidly-growing art form that turns buildings, landscapes and even human faces into otherworldly interactive displays. In the last five years, about a dozen projection mapping companies around the world have revolutionized the use of powerful light projectors to bring to life some of the most iconic structures on the planet.
A Swiss company called Flyability has developed a drone that is nearly impossible to crash. Its unique spherical cage design was inspired by the ability of some insects to carry on flying even after bumping into obstacles.
