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J58, the SR-71's secret powerhouse, has been called "black magic": an engine that can push a plane from 0 to Mach 3.2 without breaking a sweat. Here's how it works [video by TechLaboratories: buff.ly/2PySC23]
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Using a peculiar undulating propulsion system, PES Velox robot is able to efficiently glide through the water, over rough land and has even become adept at the art of ice-skating [read more: ow.ly/693R30mZPwr]
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A brilliant painting technique that uses forced perspective to make the painting itself disappear
[📹 tcmss1.0 on Douyin: buff.ly/3ScTPqz]
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Located in Lishui, China, this water slide is 2723.08 m (8,933 ft 11 in) long with waterway winding its way down the side of Puhuasi Mountain and it's the record-breaking World [read more: buff.ly/3RBE6So-] twitter.com/AmazingPosts_/…
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The mineral pyrite also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS₂. It can be found in nature with almost perfect cubic formations like these ones
[read more: buff.ly/2Llz1Lw]
[📹 buff.ly/3RekJ15]
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Watch the stunning aerial view of the Nebelhorn Peak in Germany like you have never seen it before: through an Eagle's Eyes
[full video, HD, Red Bull: buff.ly/2G7Ns4H]
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This famous video by @Mehdi_Moussaid shows a trail of termites (up) and a trail of ants (down) in what looks a stand-off between the two species, without fighting. The ants protect their valuable food bound to the nest [read more: buff.ly/3nIas1r-]
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The Blue Java is a hardy, cold tolerant banana cultivar known for its sweet aromatic fruit, which is said to have an ice cream like consistency and flavor reminiscent of vanilla
[read more: ow.ly/SqUn30o6i14]
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This video is a majestic visualization of the toroidal structure and flow of a smoke ring
[detailed scheme: buff.ly/3EBZhzQ]
[physics: buff.ly/3CcOcmc]
[📹 Titus Edwards: buff.ly/3elWaBB]
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This photo is black and white, but that grid tricks your brain into seeing a colour image.
It's called the 'colour assimilation grid illusion'.
[source, read more: buff.ly/2YBCj7q]
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In 2013 a special water transport traveled from Rotterdam to Amsterdam. A timelapse camera took 30.000 photos every 3 seconds, resulting in a unique and stunning view of the old Dutch waterways, in 4K [source, full video: buff.ly/3fW0ULJ]
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3,000-year-old Egyptian statue head of a woman, New Kingdom, limestone, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (31713)
[source: buff.ly/3GNaU8b]
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On February 9, 1990, Carl Sagan gave this speech before the 5th Emerging Issues Forum at NCSU, expounding on climate observations and energy strategies for a sustainable future, emphasizing solar
[full speech: buff.ly/3RZhLOY]
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To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
—Stephen Hawking
[📹 Specoolar, HD: buff.ly/3PoWgVu]
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This 1974 photograph shows the freshly excavated pit with 2,000-year-old terracotta warriors still showing the original color scheme before the rapid deterioration that made them as we know them today [sources, read more: buff.ly/3zXKYDg]
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This 2018 video shows how a harbor pilot boards a moving 200 m long ship moving fast into a sea of ice
[video: buff.ly/2IxKIRt]
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This drone footage was captured by @ReedTimmerAccu in Andover, Kansas in May 2022 and gives a good visualization of how a tornado forms
[video: buff.ly/3nLVvdz]
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This candle holder is made up of a clear tube that collects all the melted wax, and once the candle is fully melted, it automatically creates a new candle by forming a new candle from the melted wax [source, read more: ow.ly/rBEI30nwF42]
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Automaton Robotics created this artificial muscles robotic arm operated by water, consuming 200W at peak. Dumbbell weights 7 kg (15,6 lbs) , forearm with hand only 1 kg (2,2 lbs) [read more: buff.ly/3jqZlY5]
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Artist Kenichi Kanazawa might be well defined as a 'sound sculptor' as in this clip he gives a visual demonstration of the power of sound to put order into chaos
[video: buff.ly/2X9PDRt]
[read more about Chladni plates: buff.ly/3A5Y13d]
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Some rabbits breeds adapted to live in wet environments, and regularly swim in their day-to-day lives. Domesticated rabbits also are able to swim, but not all of them might like it
[read more: buff.ly/3gNq0N5]
[📹 buff.ly/3BnSGFE]
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The Stoos Bahn is the steepest funicular railway in the world and is paraded as a masterpiece of Swiss engineering: it hauls passengers from the valley floor up a near-vertical 110% gradient [full video by National Geographic: buff.ly/3kwCcnA]
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A photographic magic folding cube
[step by step tutorial: buff.ly/3EONAEG]
[mathematics: buff.ly/3XK9wcx]
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Cephalopods' intelligence allow them to understand and solve even complex problems, like this not easy test of opening a jar from the inside
[read more: bit.ly/2gElV25]
[source: ow.ly/P4sG30o4Erz]
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The comet moth is one of the world's largest silk moths, with a wingspan of 20 cm and a tail span of 15 cm
[read more: bit.ly/1OF90Rf]
[📹 franni.moth: buff.ly/3NhWuwx]
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