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SciFri Video:Finding Dino Color In Fossil Feathers Forget those drab grays and greens, dinosaurs might have been more colorful, according to a new study in Science. Yale graduate student Jakob Vinther and colleagues looked at the fossilized feathers of 150-million-year-old Anchiornis huxleyi and found melanosomes--the organelles that hold melanin. Vinther's analysis suggests the dinosaur had surprisingly flashy plumage. En Español.
SciFri Video:Bots Take On The Bard Robots were cast in a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream thanks to a collaboration between the theater department and the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue at Texas A&M University. Computer science grad student Kevin Pratt talks about the ultra high-tech production and why it's helpful for scientists to put robots on the stage. En Español.
SciFri Blog:The Red Scare The red fox moves into his smaller cousin's territory and acts like he owns the place...
SciFri Radio:Gene Doping in Sports With the Winter Olympics just a week away, we'll talk about a new potential threat to fair competition -- gene doping.
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