901
German photographer Nick Beyersdorf captured this multi-colored contrail while a Qatar Airways plane flew over Bamberg, Germany [read more, more photos: buff.ly/3b9HQqy]
902
Tree shaping (also known by several other alternative names) uses living trees and other woody plants as the medium to create structures and art. Some of these creations are definitely stunning
[read more: buff.ly/2FxhzQP]
[📷 Peter Cook: pooktre.com]
903
This clip captured by Epic Lava on Kilauea volcano, shows lava breaking out from a lava tube, a natural conduit passing beneath the hardened surface
[read more: buff.ly/3s6B12G]
[source, Epic Lava: buff.ly/3swXc0c]
904
There is a world of difference between the cars we vehicles we drive today, and the vehicles our parents drove. One of the major differences, aside from aesthetics is: safety. This is a visualization of the gap
[full video, read more: buff.ly/2U2KxEf]
905
On top of the 8 million human lives, 600 million trees, 200,000 hectares of land, 22 billion tons of water and 84 million tons of CO₂ that the tobacco industry costs every year, cigarette filters contain microplastics
[read more: buff.ly/3x6g0r0]
906
The impressive molt of a cobra mantis (Choeradodis rhomboidea)
[📹 kripticantids: buff.ly/3IlCvhA]
907
These are Camellia Japonica flowers, a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. Perfectly formed, their rows are packed with luminous overlapping petals that gave them the monicker of 'pink perfection' [read more: buff.ly/2GSrG7G]
908
Grand Lisboa is a 47-floor, 261-metre-tall hotel in Sé, Macau, China. Its peculiar shape lends itself to particularly evocative shots that mix old architecture and sci-fi like views, like in this photo by Paul Tsui buff.ly/2qR8YDi [source: buff.ly/30YAJw9]
909
In the province of East Java, Indonesia, the gigantic Kawah Ijen volcanic complex stretches over 22 km. But it is more known for its "blue lava", arising from the burning of sulphur released from the earth
[source, read more: buff.ly/3is9yWl]
910
The “Dance of the thousand-hand Quanyin” is possibly the most famous and most spectacular visual display in which geometry and synchronization create a kind of effective optical illusion [read more: buff.ly/3EJ3xKr] [video: buff.ly/3Hq61iD]
911
Wombats are herbivores; their diets consist mostly of grasses, sedges, herbs, bark, and roots. Their incisor teeth somewhat resemble those of rodents (rats, mice, etc.), being adapted for gnawing tough vegetation [read more: buff.ly/2I3XuV1]
912
Flowers spread with water in slow motion provide an instant visualization of surface tension
[📹 JollyToday: buff.ly/3W5eAae]
913
In this popular clip, Armenian steel worker Arkady Mgdsyan takes advantage of the Leidenfrost effect
An insulating vapor layer temporarily prevents the molten metal from harming him
[source: buff.ly/2LF6nsz ]
[read more: buff.ly/3p2AnRb]
914
The boundary between Scottsdale, Arizona and the Salt River Indian Reservation
[Edward Burtynsky, 2011: buff.ly/2CxiqmD]
915
This now iconic video by Stephen Morris shows how a domino can knock over another domino about 1.5x larger than itself. A somewhat surprising mechanical chain reaction
[video: buff.ly/2rJ6IjW]
[longer version: buff.ly/3f0r93N]
916
This behavior is known as rolling swarm and these are sawfly larvae. The surprising thing is that this entire rolling swarm moves faster than any single larva can [read more: buff.ly/3s8bti7-] [source, Mirra Whale: buff.ly/3DsGDas-]
917
PolyGlu is a coagulant made from fermented soybeans to purify water. It's safe and eco-friendly and just a gram can treat up to 5 liters of polluted water
[video: bit.ly/2EO1fM3]
918
"Persistence of vision display" or POV display are LED devices that compose images by displaying one spatial portion at a time in rapid succession. One example are Hologram Fans
[read more: buff.ly/3ykp0cd]
[📹buff.ly/3imObWT]
919
Pac-Man grossed $1 billion in quarters in its first year of release. In the following year, 1982, it earned $6 billion in quarters, which was more than the combined amount of money spent in Vegas casinos and US movie theaters that year
[read more: buff.ly/3UVkKZ7]
920
Someone thought the spectrum of a movie could be a good idea. And it is: this is the average colour of each frame of several films [see more: thecolorsofmotion.com/films]
921
A drone has been converted into a flying flamethrower in central China in a fiery campaign to eradicate more than 100 wasp nests. This is one of them
[fact check: buff.ly/3YbaNtC]
[📹bebeetok: buff.ly/3UOLFFT]
922
This is what Mount Fuji looks like from the International Space Station. The picture was captured by Expedition 2 on May 27, 2001 with a Kodak DCS460 Electronic Still Camera and an 800 mm focal length lens
[source: ow.ly/kh5w30o4nBS]
923
Artist Insane 51 created an art called "Double Exposure 3D" which uses 3D glasses to show different aspect of the same mural painting. This one was made in Bristol, UK
[source, more artworks: buff.ly/3QKLXMm]
924
Humpback whales create ‘bubble nets’ to snare their prey, sometimes with Fibonacci spiral patterns as showed in this clip by Richard Sidey. Researchers think the spiral patterns have advantages over circular ones
[full paper: buff.ly/3OdpN5f]
925
Architecto is a real challenge with more than 900 pieces to assemble in order to then solve the enigma which requires 116 movements
[📹 The_Puzzle_Guy: buff.ly/3B9XXSn]
[more: buff.ly/3B5cVZQ]
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