Scientists were using video to understand the movements of cheetahs, the slap shot strike of a frog’s tongue, the physics of popcorn, tool-making cockatoos and helpful dogs. Christopher Whitworth, the ScienceTake producer, and I are constantly comb ing through scientific journals and news releases to find studies or experiments that used video in the course of the research. Chris has to decide that the video is interesting enough and I have to decide that the science is interesting enough . The researchers are almost always delighted to share their video and have their work featured. The video had beauty, romance, violence and new scientific information.

Source: New York Times February 05, 2019 09:56 UTC