Wild plants of Japan (time-lapse videos)
Various Japanese plants (and fungi) spring to life in Omni/ScienceNet's "Action Plant" series of time-lapse videos shot in Kōchi prefecture. + Snake gourd flower (Trichosanthes kirilowii) // Wikipedia...
View ArticleVideo: Glowing lips of electric flame scallop
This video presented by the Enoshima Aquarium shows the bioluminescent mantle of a flame scallop (Ctenoides ales, a.k.a. noble file clam or electric eye scallop), a bivalve mollusk found around reefs...
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Pink Tentacle’s greatest hits – 2010
As 2010 draws to an end, here's a look back at the year's most popular Pink Tentacle posts. - Old-school Tokyo subway manner posters: 27 train etiquette posters from the 1970s-1980s * * * * * - Custom...
View ArticleVideo: Kirishima volcano eruption
+ Video Shinmoe peak (Shinmoe-dake), part of the Kirishima volcano group in southern Kyushu, began erupting yesterday (Jan 26) in dramatic fashion. The eruption, thought to be the largest at Kirishima...
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Photos: ‘Snow monsters’ of Japan
Ghostly trees covered in snow and rime ice -- known as "snow monsters" or juhyou (frost-covered trees) in Japanese -- are a celebrated feature of the winter landscape in mountainous areas of northern...
View ArticleVideo: Siberian tiger ‘escapes’ from Tokyo zoo
A person disguised as a Siberian tiger ran wild through Tokyo's Tama Zoo yesterday in an exercise to prepare zookeepers for dangerous situations involving escaped animals. + Video Yesterday's dramatic...
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Elfoid: Humanoid mobile phone
Elfoid -- a REAL android phone Robotics researchers from Osaka University have teamed up with NTT Docomo and Qualcomm to develop a handheld humanoid phone that brings a new dimension to mobile...
View ArticleVideo: SWITL magic goop scoop
SWITL -- an impressive "robot hand" tool developed by factory equipment manufacturer Furukawa Kikou -- seems to defy the laws of nature by picking up deposits of gels, sauces and other soft...
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Cute ‘Pluto-kun’ cartoon dispels plutonium fears
In the early 1990s, Japan's Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC) -- a nuclear energy research organization which is now part of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) -- created...
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High-resolution photos of Fukushima Daiichi
These high-resolution aerial photographs of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were taken on March 20 and 24, 2011 by a small unmanned drone operated by Air Photo Service, a company...
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