What if every human being on earth disappeared? This isn’t the story of how we might vanish–it is the story of what happens to the world we leave behind. Found at Hulu.

A giant ant colony is pumped full of cement and excavated to reveal a remarkably intricate series of interlocking tunnels designed to maximize ventilation and rooms devoted to specific purposes such as fungi gardens and waste disposal. Found at YouTube from Shahwo.

The remains of an extraordinary fossil unearthed in 67-million-year-old sediments from Gujarat, western India reveal that snakes preyed on hatchling dinosaurs. The snake was coiled around a recently hatched egg adjacent to a hatchling sauropod. The discovery was made by in international team of scientists led by the University of Michigan’s Jeff Wilson and the [...]

Look at this thing fly. No humans needed, just raw robotic speed and accuracy. The Flexpicker takes randomly distributed pancakes from a conveyor and stacks them to a predefined (selectable) stack pattern on a central conveyor and transports the stacks to a flow wrapper for outer wrapping. Found at YouTube from RGLumaAutomation via Singularity Hub.

If you want to watch Videolicious.tv on your full size HDTV instead of your laptop’s 13 or 14 inch screen (and of course you do), you’re going to need a way to hook your computer up to your TV. Wired magazine tells you how.

Scientific American contributing editor Christie Nicholson takes you inside the sport, to explore the physics behind a figure skater’s spectacular moves. Found at Scientific American.

Wired reports on Eurocopter, which has designed a funky-shaped rotor blade that radically reduces the wop-wop-wop sound that conventional helicopters make. Found at YouTube from theworacle via Popsci.

Super cool! In this video you can actually see the sonic boom created by the flight of an Atlas V rocket. Found at YouTube from beachton123.

This is a Honda assembly plant that is run nearly completely by robots. Found at YouTube from wwwleandesignhu.

A group of University of Kansas researchers working with Chinese colleagues have discovered a venomous, birdlike raptor that thrived some 128 million years ago in China. This is the first report of venom in the lineage that leads to modern birds. Found at YouTube from KU.