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You can simulate a tornado indoor following some relatively easy steps. This clip shows you how
[more, with instructions: buff.ly/2t2sJfJ]
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Watch carefully: this is a monkey that gets upset when he's paid less than another monkey for doing the same job
[find more, full video: buff.ly/2pbzLta]
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A violin bow creates beautiful geometric figures from thin air. They are called Chladni figures
[read more: buff.ly/3OpRR5J]
[📹 Steve Mould: buff.ly/3GtzLhp]
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Don’t fall in
While hiking 30 miles in Iceland, John Derting showed how deep a seemingly shallow glacial body of water can seem.
[Instagram: buff.ly/32pWVTJ]
[TikTok: buff.ly/3nUWiK6]
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Elephant seals rarely cross paths with humans but when they do, they can really throw their weight around
[source, full video, BBC Earth: buff.ly/2IEAmeD]
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The kea is a large parrot found in the South Island of New Zealand. It has mostly olive-green plumage with orange feathers on the undersides of its wings, but some of the outer wing are dull-blue
[read more: buff.ly/2M5bkIy]
[📷Élise Fournier: buff.ly/2NERTr7]
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The articulated aerial robot Dragon has a vectorable rotor unit embedded in each link and it's capable of manipulating and grasping using vectorable thrust control [full video: buff.ly/3R5Asjd]
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A sneaker wave is a disproportionately large coastal wave that can appear in a wave train without warning. This video was shared by Marcella Ogata-Day to help bring awareness of the dangers of sneaker waves
[source, read more: buff.ly/3GyVgu9]
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This is how a troop of Langur Monkeys show empathetic behaviour as they mourn what they think is a dead baby Langur, which is actually a robotic spy monkey, designed to film the primates. At the point they hug and console each other [full video: buff.ly/2mh8444]
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Visualization of Newton's first law with dirt on a tennis racket, in slow motion.
[source of the gif, IG's philip_tennis: buff.ly/3mk0rqm]
[Newton's first law explained: buff.ly/3pI8csh]
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Spider webs are engineering marvels
[6 facts about spider webs: buff.ly/3TVuB22]
[Timelapse by dinaoren0: buff.ly/3BfUPEV]
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Data from scans of a developing embryo show us how our faces don't just grow, but fit together like a puzzle. The development of the human face during gestation [video: buff.ly/2G7GnTI]
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Yes, this really happened: this is a robot trying to escape from children's abuse
[read more: bit.ly/2qYffjs]
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Thanks to its intelligent kinematics, FESTO's BionicFlyFox can master the agile flying manoeuvres of its natural role model
[find out more: buff.ly/2I8kWPL]
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Trained African Giant Pouched Rats have found thousands of unexploded landmines & bombs. Researchers also trained these rats to detect tuberculosis. Most recently they are training them to sniff out poached wildlife trophies exported out of African ports buff.ly/2L46yua
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Can you explain the missing square?
Hint: check the hypotenuse
[solution, read more: buff.ly/2Ru2msq]
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Unlike other mammals, camels' red blood cells are oval. This makes them better at withstanding high osmotic variation without rupturing when drinking large amounts of water: a 600kg camel can drink 200 L of water in 3 minutes
buff.ly/31jk3QO
[📹 buff.ly/2E9lDMB]
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The Kandariya Mahadeva Temple is the largest and most ornate Hindu temple in the medieval group found at Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh, India. Its main tower has 84 mini spires and a definitely impressive fractal-like structure [read more: buff.ly/3ksF9oI]
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The Ruppert Archaeopteryx is a high-wing, single-seat, foot-launchable microlift glider
[read more: buff.ly/3pxI6ae]
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A brilliant Star Wars Trench run kinetic LEGO sculpture
[full video by JK Brickworks: buff.ly/2jfmjlv]
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Splitting a raw boulder found in Queensland can uncover marvel like this opal's colors
[full video: buff.ly/2RRSevS]
[more about Queensland Opal mining fields: buff.ly/2RPRirZ]
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Shakuntala Devi, the human computer who gave the 23rd root of a 201 digit number in 50 seconds. The answer was verified at the US Bureau of Standards by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a calculation buff.ly/3eoS0Xg
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A 2016 study found that sea turtles rest for ~11 hours per day, using just half the amount of oxygen that they use during foraging. Watch one taking a nap in this clip by Drew Sulock
[read more: buff.ly/3cCm6nV]
[video: buff.ly/3xdY24n]
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Scientist Brian Greene demonstrates weightlessness during freefall
[source: buff.ly/3vDE4Qn]
[explanation: buff.ly/3QiOgHI]
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Watch how fellow bees clean honey off another bee that fell into the honey extractor and was saved by the beekeeper, before it suffocates
[📹 + read more: buff.ly/3Qy1UWt]
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