976
Slow motion (mirrored) art
[📹 仙奴视角: buff.ly/3GiaXak]
977
It might sound as an insane idea, especially because it took 83 days of planning, dreaming, building & filming, but in the end The Brick Wall gave you a video of a cucumber house being constructed using a LEGO robot
[full video: buff.ly/3pFfFrK]
978
The Right Pointing Arrow spins 180 degrees and it still points to the right. Only in a mirror will it point left (and only to the left). Another incredible ambiguous object illusion by mathematician Kokichi Sugihara of Meiji University in Japan [more: buff.ly/2KonWcM]
979
Controlled by servo-motors and an Arduino Uno, this scented tree moves respecting the physics of an actual car in motion for an immersive gaming experience
[source + more info, Reddit's u/JamesF890: buff.ly/3T5ZyA5]
980
That time astronaut Scott Kelly played liquid ping pong in space: he used two paddles with hydrophobic, or water repellant, features to pass a sphere of water back and forth [full video: buff.ly/2XSL4M3]
981
When marine biologist Roger Hanlon caught this creature on camera, he said he screamed bloody murder. And no wonder. A superb visualization of how chromatophores allow an octopus to blend in with the backdrops
[source, read more: buff.ly/30m3fL9]
982
Photographer Peter Maier captured this jaw-dropping timelapse of a cloudburst over Lake Millstatt in Carinthia, Austria
[source, full video, HD: buff.ly/2Mv5n7G]
983
On October 9, 1903, a NY Times editorial followed the ignominious failure of a government-sponsored flying machine, commenting that ""Man won't fly for a million years". The Wright Brothers made their first powered flight 9 weeks later
[full article: buff.ly/3hRZYK5]
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Super agile and balanced, Direct Drive's Diablo is the world first wheeled-leg transformable robot powered by 6 direct-drive motors. An open development platform for custom controls & DIY [read more: diablo.directdrive.com]
985
Sources of methane in bodies of water are very common. Only lakes are the source of 20% of global natural methane and the bubbles are always flammable
[📹: buff.ly/3CgaIMp-]
986
The 12-Faced Holoscope is a type of kaleidoscope based on truncated Platonic solids by artist Gary Allison. Through the symmetry of the reflections, these triangles appear as an infinite array of tetrahedrons [source, read more: buff.ly/2MUvhmo]
987
That time when a giant Moon balloon was blown away in China and found strolling along the streets [story: buff.ly/2qj2jlA]
988
How ultrasonic cleaning works on jewelry.
The ultrasonic machine removes any dirt and dust even in holes and cracks through cavitation bubbles created by high frequency waves
[The Forbidden Cleaner: buff.ly/3jEzejk]
989
A bacterial flagellum is driven by a rotary engine made up of protein, and is powered by the flow of protons across the bacterial cell membrane. It rotates at ~1,000 rpm, but the rotor alone can rotate at up to 17,000 rpm
[📹 smart-biology.com]
990
Square or rectangular clouds are relatively rare occurrences, but they happen to appear in the skies from time to time, like this one filmed over Tucson, Arizona
[read more: buff.ly/3Fn7YNz]
991
The rainbow starfrontlet (Coeligena iris) is a species of hummingbird in the "brilliants" tribe Heliantheini. Males have a glittering yellow-green forecrown that transitions through golden yellow to blue on the crown
[📷 Jorge Luis Cruz Alcivar: sanjorgeecolodges.com]
992
This rocket launch from NASA-Kennedy in Cape Canaveral, Florida was caught on camera from a distance of 21 km away and altitude of 8,500 m by E. Milner on a flight from Baltimore, Maryland to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2016
[HD: buff.ly/3OAVp5v]
993
Perceiving age, health, sex, and beauty in a face is matter of details you never considered [read more: bit.ly/2wpzioy]
994
Palmanova is a town and comune in northeastern Italy. The town is an example of nine-pointed star fort of the late Renaissance, built up by the Venetian Republic in 1593 [read more: buff.ly/2O3NiQs]
995
The Banff Wildlife Crossings Project was implemented in Banff, Alberta. Combined with fencing to keep the animals off the road, the structures have reduced animal-vehicle collisions in the area by more than 80% (>96% for elk and deer alone)
[read more: buff.ly/3ACNWu4]
996
This demonstration seems to defy thermodynamics in that it appears that entropy decreases, but reversible mixing is actually made possible by ensuring that the mixing/unmixing is done without turbulence [source, full video, UNM: buff.ly/3CF7H61-]
997
Under specific conditions, the exhaust gas plume of a rocket can put on an amazing show of light and clouds, like this SpaceX Falcon 9 on October 8, 2018 captured in this remarkable timelapse by @EmericTimelapse [IG: buff.ly/3pdFKKN] [explanation: buff.ly/38aNyFD]
998
On April 27, 2012, a team of scientists and tv studios intentionally crashed an uncrewed Boeing 727-200 to test which seats had the best chance of survival
[Discovery Channel: buff.ly/3Uc22NY]
[read more: buff.ly/2WHddPI]
999
When first hatched, tawny frogmouth chicks have thick, white and fluffy plumage, weighing between 17-19 grams, looking like balls with a mouth
[source read more, Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary: buff.ly/3xmjILB]
1000
These two clips show how a hot & cold weather front interact when they come in to contact with each other due to different densities [source 1, Canada Science and Technology Museum: buff.ly/35gkgZm] [source 2, Simon Foster: buff.ly/3s4L5su]
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