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Very effective anamorphic floor art
[📹 source: buff.ly/3wVcz65]
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Inspired by solar furnaces, this parabolic mirror concentrates light onto a focal point, and can be consequently used for more mundane tasks in place of industrial purposes
[how it works: buff.ly/3vZapSz]
[📹 buff.ly/3vZJYvU]
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This is what the inside of the mouth of a leatherback sea turtle looks like [read more: bit.ly/2w8YG2S]
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Photographer Joseph DiGiovanna took a video of every sunrise in 2022
[source: buff.ly/3Z712wP]
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The superb lyrebird is an Australian songbird. It is one of the world's largest songbirds, and is renowned for its elaborate tail and courtship displays, and its excellent mimicry
[📹 World Birds]
[read more: buff.ly/3ddF9IK]
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Japanese startup AERWINS has developed the world's first flying bike. It is already on sale in Japan and a smaller version will be available in the US in 2023 for $777,000 (€775,400) [read more: buff.ly/3Lu2Jhx]
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A journey to the heart of matter by CERN
[read more: buff.ly/3gjMxE6]
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This is the raccoon dog, the only extant species in the genus Nyctereutes. It's a close relative of true foxes and the only canid known to hibernate during the winter [read more: ow.ly/kEtj30nrQoa]
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The beauty of the moss cells under the microscope
[📹 Adolfo Sánchez-Blanco: buff.ly/3qcEqed]
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It looks like a wasp, but it's actually a mantis. It's the wasp mantidfly and it's an example of convergent evolution
[read more: buff.ly/3cOfl6h]
[📹: buff.ly/3AQ6vwX]
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The village in Germany whose houses are built on giant tree stumps (but not real trees).
[source, read more: buff.ly/3PmVgkP]
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An explosion of zinc fireworks occurs when a human egg is activated by a sperm enzyme, and the size of these “sparks” is a direct measure of the quality of the egg and its ability to develop into an embryo. In other words, life begins with a flash of light ow.ly/qO4130nsBqc
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Watch Delta Robot (right) and compact LR Mate 200iD robot (left) sort and move sets of four batteries with mesmerizing, seemingly-endless rhythm
[source: buff.ly/2ZVYkig]
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Baby crocodiles sound like laser guns.
The chirps are made to communicate with their mother and the siblings in the same nest
[Brad Valle, Dragonwood Wildlife Conservancy: buff.ly/2otlKdo]
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Fun fact: 69 is the only natural number whose square (4761) and cube (328509) use every decimal digit from 0–9 exactly once
[source: buff.ly/3Fh21S7]
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A chameleon having a live birth. This happens only to some species that are "ovoviviparous", meaning that the babies grow inside the mother for a few months and are then born live
[source: buff.ly/3EYm60v]
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Stephen Cunnane made this clip to help breakdown animal gaits for animators and artists, but it's very useful to learn how dogs walk too
[full video: vimeo.com/215637283]
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A binky is when a rabbit jumps, runs and leaps in the air. Sometimes they will kick or twist in the air as well. Binkies are signs of playfulness and joy in rabbits
[read more: buff.ly/3V6Jwa2]
[📹 blancobun: buff.ly/3SRnyGA]
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Someone said intelligence is the ability to adapt and Tony Ann gave a majestic example of this by turning his neighbor's annoying car alarm into art
[source, more videos: buff.ly/3RS1KKu]
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When you cast a visible light shadow you also cast a thermal shadow. But while the former disappear when you walk away, an infrared thermography shows you the latter staying on the wall.
[source: buff.ly/3RsB6r4]
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Chimps can be from 3 to 5 times stronger than humans. Why? Studies have found differences in the way muscles are built, but muscle control may be a much more important factor
[learn more: buff.ly/3y0pnqS]
[📹: buff.ly/3f5rcK9]
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Circles growing in place
[source: buff.ly/3WFKhao]
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Every 4 to 10 years, certain oak populations will synchronize to produce almost no acorns at all (starving off mammals), only to rain them down excessively the following year. This happens because only one in 10,000 acorns results in an eventual tree buff.ly/3oIHlK5
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Where does water really fall into? Great demonstration of rotational forces at work.
[📹 buff.ly/3jls5nX]
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Ever wonder what a vinyl record looks like under an electron microscope? This is a 1000x magnification of a track
[read more: buff.ly/2JN5w4l]
[How the stereo LP groove works: buff.ly/2SclXz2]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links