926
The tectonic evolution of Earth in the last billion years
[full paper: buff.ly/3R8mLjo]
927
As soon as hatched, a juvenile flamboyant cuttlefish is capable of producing the same camouflage patterns as adults
[read more: buff.ly/3wAaFYx]
[📹 buff.ly/3PT1p8v]
928
If you're old enough, you will recognize this sounds and appreciate the spectrogram of a dial up modem handshake. The full video's caption reports a verbal translation/breakdown of the process
[Full video, Scotty H: buff.ly/3zVFdom]
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929
The Gee's golden langur is one of the world's 25 most endangered primate species, threatened by habitat destruction and forest fragmentation: the total population of mature adults has been estimated as 6000–6500
[📹 Joel Sartore: buff.ly/3Afwsp7]
930
Lake Lalolalo is a volcanic crater lake surrounded by jungle to the southwest of the island of Wallis (Uvea) in the Pacific Ocean
[read more: buff.ly/3X3dk7T]
[📹 buff.ly/3jy7kFt]
931
This video by JBA Trust uses a wave tank to illustrate how different combinations of coastal defences affect the potential for flood risk, measuring the ml of overtopping water corresponding to liters/h in real life [full video: buff.ly/2QtmVb7]
932
Iconaster longimanus, or icon star, has a very peculiar appearance: it's like a star inside a star and has marginal row of large plates that resemble mosaic tiles
[read more: buff.ly/2FHTE0W]
[photo credits: buff.ly/2FG6Gfz]
933
The flowers of Geum triflorum (or prairie smoke) are arranged in umbels of 3 to 5 flowers: their ring of many stamens sometimes produce nice shapes
[read more: buff.ly/2tP0Vbs]
934
This is not a spiral: what you see is a series of concentric circle and the reason is the so called Fraser spiral illusion buff.ly/2J7lI0Y [this version is by @AkiyoshiKitaoka: ow.ly/3vHc30n6gSr]
935
Merging art with AI. Using the new Outpainting capability,DALL-E 2 imagined how the landscape could look like between famous impressionist paintings from Van Gogh, Monet, Munch and Hokusai
[source, read more: buff.ly/3F65vrL]
936
This snowboard with LEDs changes light patterns when you perform certain tricks or movements, detecting its orientation [video: ow.ly/IutE30n71MB]
937
The telescpefish has large-lensed forward-pointing eyes—which are adapted for optimal binocular light collection and help them to better judge the distance of prey
[read more: buff.ly/2ZGP9S1]
[📷 Dave Johnson: buff.ly/3BZgj8l]
938
The pyrocumulonimbus cloud is a type of cumulonimbus cloud that forms above a source of heat, such as a wildfire or volcanic eruption. This one was captured during the Big Creek fire near Fresno, California in September 2020
[read more, credits: buff.ly/2Fj2wj5]
939
This animation using a domino analogy, shows why speed of sound is faster in solids, slower in liquids and slowest in gases
[📹 Higgsino physics library: buff.ly/3y9FqTs]
940
This is what your supermarket would look like without bees
[source, read more: ow.ly/9iHH30q1HvY]
941
A sod roof, or turf roof, is a traditional Scandinavian type of green roof covered with sod on top of several layers of birch bark on gently sloping wooden roof boards buff.ly/2ULfwll [photo: Faroe Islands by İlhan Eroğlu, IG: buff.ly/2NeE0Dk]
942
An impressive footage of a hunt by two saluki dogs chasing a rabbit in the desert. Saluki hunt by sight more than scent or sound and this gives advantage to rabbits.
[full video: buff.ly/3BGtVGj]
943
Descension by Anish Kapoor depicts fluidity through water’s continuous swirling motion as it rushes down an 8 m (26 ft) diameter vortex representing a powerful physical form that is sucked into the earth
[read more: buff.ly/3zewTiQ]
944
Canadian camouflage company Hyperstealth Biotechnology has applied for four patents related to their Quantum Stealth or “invisibility cloak” prototype material. The video at the company's site show the technology in a variety of viewing conditions: hyperstealth.com
945
The green vine snake is a slender green tree snake found in India: mildly venomous, it's also quite spectacular in its contorsions & appearance. This is a famous picture on one of them by Suhas Premkumar
[read more: buff.ly/2FpszPX]
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946
Ravens can talk (buff.ly/3SYCt2b) but sometimes they even know how to sing, like this one trained by Giuseppe Cassini
[source: buff.ly/3bYHCH2, buff.ly/3SYmgKe]
947
‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before’
In an absolute first, astronomers have observed a black hole burping up stellar remains 3 years after it shredded and consumed the star, without swallowing anything new in the meantiime [read more: buff.ly/3VkUrNo]
948
Thailand’s Moken sea gypsies can see twice as clearly underwater by controlling the size of their pupils. But what was generally considered an automatic reflex for the rest of us, is now thought to be something that any child under 5 could learn how to do buff.ly/2oBKVur
949
54 years ago #Today, one of the most famous images ever taken was snapped from the orbit of the Moon. Now known as "Earthrise", with modern digital technology, the iconic image -- originally in black and white -- has been remastered ow.ly/Hir130n5JpX
950
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]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links