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This is how prefabricated structural units allow a 10-storey building to be completed in 28 hours and 45 minutes
[📹 buff.ly/3WomsDR]
[read more: buff.ly/3vy5CHb]
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How a mechatronics engineering student invented a “mobile airbag” that automatically deploys when you drop a device, protecting it from harm [read more: ow.ly/2AvB50nZ4X5]
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The life cycle of a monarch butterfly
[video: buff.ly/3Cd8EmW]
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A Sea Butterfly (Corolla spectabilis) gracefully swimming in the ocean
[read more: buff.ly/3uYSM49]
[📹 Chris Gug: buff.ly/3FBTn0F]
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Cardboard boxes can be quite versatile packaging, especially if you learn to resize and recycle them. This series of simple steps allow you to change the geometric shape of a cardboard box
[read more: buff.ly/3RLyrs4]
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There’s a tiny, innocent-looking rodent called the grasshopper mouse who kills highly venomous arthropods like scorpions and forcipules and it howls at the moon to claim its territory
[videos + read more: buff.ly/3RnIkNh]
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How high you would jump on other planets or moons?
This video shows the average jump height of a person on Earth and its equivalent in other worlds of the Solar System
[full video, HD, MetaBallStudios: buff.ly/3Jzo5sW]
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Ravens playing in the snow.
Ravens and corvids in general are among the most playful animals.
[read more: buff.ly/2N2PkPn]
[📹 Jane Hunter: buff.ly/3FikrzV]
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The F-16 Fighting Falcon has a thrust-to-weight ratio greater than one, providing power to climb and vertical acceleration. In this clip, you see one climbing to 15,000 feet in 20 seconds
[📹 Murat ÖZPALA: buff.ly/3FUCbnd]
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The burrowing parrots in Patagonia have been spotted working together to jump-start a water pump at a farm to have a drink
[full video: ow.ly/yMDp30oapR5]
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'Relativity' is a lithograph print by artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953. It depicts a world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply. This is an animated version of the famous artwork
[source: buff.ly/3xkiJO2]
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Sam Cossman & George Kourounis become among the first explorers to step foot inside the worlds most dangerous and inaccessible volcano, Marum Crater. More people have visited the moon than the firey depths of this spectacular and deadly location [video: buff.ly/3E3CDgm]
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The menstrual cycle
1. Menstrual phase (0:00 - 0:07)
2. Follicular phase (0:08 - 0:15)
3. Ovulation phase (0:16 - 0:27)
4. Lutheal phase (0:28 - 0:33)
[read more, phases: buff.ly/3BLlytp]
[📹 IG design_cells: buff.ly/3f0um5O ]
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The bizarre floral appearance of Hydnora africana seems almost extraterrestrial, but in fact it is finely adapted for pollination in its arid habitat. This plant, resident of southern Africa only emerges from the soil to flower
[source, read more: buff.ly/3VpbsoZ]
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Student Esmée Kramer realized a life-like dinosaur costume from PVC pipe and foam. She made it in her free time between work and her Systems Engineering studies [source & full video: buff.ly/3065nW9]
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Candles burns thanks to a combustion reaction that requires oxygen (O₂). When you pour a cup of CO2 over the candles, this displacesall the normally mixed air, along with all that O₂ the fire needs to burn.
[read more: buff.ly/3GLOBzC]
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Although it was captured back in 2007 this photo by David Burdeny still remains one of the coolest iceberg photos in existence thanks to the perfect composition and symmetry that separates the photo into four different sections of colour and texture buff.ly/2Iy0GXY
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What looks like an awful dispute between neighbors underwater is actually a behavior that many fish show, especially gobies. They dig burrows, sift sand and they're territorial. So, this.
[source, HD: buff.ly/3Pt03Bm]
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This red-tailed hawk seemingly suspended in the air
Its head is perfectly still while its body stabilizes around it
[📹 Bill Bryant: buff.ly/3igxQz0].
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To pay tribute to all the enslaved people buried in cemeteries with no name, artist Craig Walsh put a face in the trees to honor their souls in an installation in Charlotte, North Carolina, called "Monuments"
[read more: buff.ly/3ChbM2N]
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Among its other peculiarities (it's the third-tallest and second-heaviest living bird), the cassowary, during its breeding season, lays bright green or pale green-blue eggs [read more: buff.ly/2BrTwWV]
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This gloved hand holds life-sized models of nuclear fuel pellets with their injection rod. Each pellet can produce the same energy as 3 tons of coal, so this handful equals ~60 tons of coal or ~28,000 m³ of gas or ~34,000 liters of oil [source, read more: buff.ly/3OJxjV5]
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The geographus cone snail can harpoon a prey with a venom potent enough to kill humans, but it can also release an insulin agent that cause fish to undergo hypoglycemic shock, essentially stunning it [video by Biopixel: buff.ly/2YlN5R8]
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Bats are not rodents. They are their own group called Chiroptera. They are more closely related to cats than rats
[📹 Tracey Jolliffe]
[read more: buff.ly/3ekNqI3]
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