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There are many challenges associated with living on the International Space Station. Things that are easy to do on Earth where there is gravity can be difficult in space. @AstroKarenN shows how she washed and rinsed her hair in microgravity [full video: buff.ly/2N699E3]
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Kyushu University released more than 1500 3D models of animals and plants using a photogrammetry technique, taking digital photos from multiple angles
[database: buff.ly/3OmYi9N]
[full paper: buff.ly/3UTBq40]
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Kaketsugi – literally ‘invisible mending’ in Japanese – is an amazing cloth mending technique from Japan that involves repairing damaged cloth to the point where you can’t even tell it was ever damaged.
[source, read more: buff.ly/3snCeBT]
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This documentary from PBS shows an octopus changing colors while sleeping. Marine biologist David Scheel thinks that the sea creature is dreaming about hunting, which sparks the color shift to a camouflaged shade [video: buff.ly/2lqQuuL]
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Christopher Swann, who has been whale watching for several years, eye-witnessed a pod of orcas hunting down a dolphin back in 2013. Among the shots he took, this one shows the approximately 4-ton mammal leaping about 4 meters into the air [source: buff.ly/2DWYTM0]
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The Stadio Meazza, commonly known as San Siro, is a football stadium in the San Siro district of Milan. Its walkways are spiral shaped and the motion of the walking people gives you the illusion of an automatic rotation buff.ly/2KuwX3U [gif: buff.ly/3opaQSO]
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This is the preserved shell of a giant 'ancient armadillo' creature called Glyptodont that roamed the earth around 20,000 years ago. A farmer in Argentina uncovered four of them in a dried-out riverbed near Buenos Aires in February 2020 [read more: ow.ly/cifl50B0cTo]
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This is what you see when you look out from the International Space Station (and using a telelens)
[source, @OlegMKS: buff.ly/3QTyFhi]
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Wat Samphran is a Buddhist temple in Amphoe Sam Phran, Nakhon Pathom province, around 40 km west of Bangkok. The temple is notable for its 17-story tall pink cylindrical building with a gigantic dragon sculpture curling around the entire height
[source: buff.ly/3YvbfDa]
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A Fleischmann's glass frog (Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni) can often be spotted lying very flat against a leaf looking more like a leaf with a pair of eyes
[read more: buff.ly/3uaqQHR]
[📷 KERO__v: buff.ly/3vcIcqq]
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Every Veterans Day, November 11 at exactly 11:11 am, the sun aligns perfectly with the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem, Arizona
[read more: bit.ly/2xDU0lI]
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Population growth from 10,000 BCE to today
[video by Robert Rohde, HD: buff.ly/3egX55U]
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You can hear the words «Green Needle» or «Brainstorm» only based on which one you think about.
This is an auditory illusion, or a false perception of a real sound [explanation: buff.ly/3ItCQfg]
[📹: buff.ly/3vJDKQH]
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111 years ago #Today, in Stockholm, Sweden, Marie Skłodowska Curie became the first person to be awarded a second Nobel prize. She's still the only person awarded with two Nobel prizes in two different branches of science bit.ly/2kn2vfT
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This video by dr Lila Landowski shows two neurons sensing one another and connecting in a petri dish. They use webbed hand-like structures and the finger like projections help decide which direction to grow in [video + read more: buff.ly/3nzeTLB-]
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Despite their bulky and heavy appearance, hippos' subcutaneous fat layers are quite thin. The 2,000-kg giant is mostly made up of muscles, and 6-cm thick skin. This anatomical model by Jun Huang visualizes its muscular structure
[source: buff.ly/3S62N8M]
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This is machine learning training on landscapes. StyleGAN3 was released in October 2021 and is a generative adversarial network particurarly effective in generating photo-realistic faces
[read more: buff.ly/3siB4Yl]
[📹 Gene Kogan]
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Crops under solar panels can be a win-win, and in dry places, photovoltaic shade can even reduce water use, suggests a recent study. Cherry tomatoes saw a 65% increase in CO₂ uptake, a 65% increase in water-use efficiency, and produced twice as much fruit buff.ly/2ZQCdW8
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A native group of people living in the Oceania subregion called Melanesia, is famous for their beautiful dark skin & naturally blonde hair. The blonde trait is developed via the TYRP1 gene, which is not the same that causes blondness in European blonds ow.ly/u7HF30np7mi
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European starlings are exceptional mimics, including human speech. Their ability at mimicry is so great that strangers have looked in vain for the human they think they have just heard speak. Jabber is 5 years old
[source: buff.ly/33Z9V3G]
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The Balamand University in the northern district of El-Koura, Lebanon, has a set of stairs painted as the spines of books [more photos: buff.ly/30bOZop]
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This time lapse possibly illustrates the most meaningful portion of an Eurasian blue tit's life, from when it finds the place for a new home, to the moment it raises its young
[📹 nestboxlive: buff.ly/3FzisuB]
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A Van de Graaf generator pulls electrons from Earth, moves them along a belt & stores them on a sphere. These electrons repel each other: when a student puts a hand on it, hair is the most obvious place they show up
[📹 adbeahm: buff.ly/3FUEGqK]
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Boiling coffee with a moka. This is a movie made with neutron images that shows the coffe making process. The movie was made by A. Kaestner at the cold neutron imaging beam line ICON at the Paul Scherrer Institute
[full video: buff.ly/2KDuOT4]
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The story of the shark, which, fitted with a GPS tracker, seemingly spent years drawing a picture … of itself
[read more: buff.ly/3Gerfmp]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links