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In 2016 Ticket To The Moon, along with its mastermind and project coordinator Igor Scotland, designed an impressive 80 meters long hammock caravan 200 meters above the Canyon sector Oker more than 200 meters above the canyon floor [video: buff.ly/2JN13j8]
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The pink colour of Lake Hillier, Western Australia is believed to be due to the presence of the organism, Dunaliella salina, an unicellular micro-algae that contains red/pink pigment
[📹, HD, Jaimen Hudson: buff.ly/3ChPvSA]
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Anodizing titanium generates an array of different titanium colors, for which it is sometimes used in art and jewelry. The color formed is dependent on the thickness of the oxide, which is determined by the anodising voltage buff.ly/2Py1DUF [gif: buff.ly/3u3QG05]
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This video by MWSU Chemistry Department uses balloons dipped in liquid nitrogen to demonstrate Charles's Law, which relates the volume of a gas with its temperature
[read more: buff.ly/3wKwHGy]
[full video: buff.ly/3wHhxC8]
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Commerson's frogfish (also known as giant frogfish) grows up to 38 cm and like other members of its family, it has a globular, extensible body. Its large mouth allows it to consume prey as large as itself
[📹 krakenaquatics: buff.ly/3TJq4Pm]
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How the radius rotates over the ulna in a human forearm when twisted.
[read more: buff.ly/3C92xkx]
[📹source: buff.ly/3C8hCTh]
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Monkeyland is the world's first free roaming multi-specie primate sanctuary in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. This is Siam, a lar gibbon who became popular for crossing a suspension bridge with a balance bravery
[video: buff.ly/2ONyZAM]
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The eruptions of Mount Etna in Sicily are often spectacular and part of the show always comes from the ash columns: this is an impressive explosion captured in December 2015 photographer Fernando Famiani [source, read more: buff.ly/2KlkBLA]
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Preikestolen («Pulpit Rock») in Norway rises 604 m above the Lysefjorden. It was formed during the ice age, ~10,000 years ago, when the glaciers reached the cliff
[clip by Espen Hatleskog: buff.ly/3qklafZ-]
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Playing with bubbles is an important part of dolphins' life. They can also create and manipulate bubbles and show a complex behavior during their play with bubbles [read more: buff.ly/2G2GGA0]
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Born 103 years ago #Today, Isaac Asimov was professor of biochemistry, science popularizer and extraordinary sci-fi writer: he wrote more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards buff.ly/2LgN6Pf [portrait by Rowena Morrill: buff.ly/3n85rf1]
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In 1935, quarry workers at Porthmadog, North Wales were transported to the top via cable car. To get them back down to the bottom at end-of-shift, this no-energy way was devised
[source: buff.ly/3yZgZd5]
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These photos captured by nature photographer Alan Murphy show just how camouflage works. A Canadian great gray owl sits perched atop a tree branch, seemingly melting into the background of spruce and pine trees [source: buff.ly/3DvwcmF] [author: alanmurphyphotography.com]
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The platypus localises its prey using almost 40,000 electroreceptors arranged in front-to-back stripes along its bill.
Bonus: this is sound it makes
[read more: buff.ly/2jqvqQb]
[📹 Platypus Conservation Initiative]
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Ambiguous grid by Kokichi Sugihara of Meiji University. A mathematically calculated combination of perspective and the physics of reflection produce this striking illusion that works in many configurations
[source: buff.ly/3Tlnz5h]
[learn more: buff.ly/2GYweb5]
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How vaping by a freeway can reveal the secrets of fluid dynamics
[📹: buff.ly/3V1UwEn]
[aerodynamics of a truck: ow.ly/PtKo30mKvoa]
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The Gablok concept is a series of insulated blocks, a customized floor system as well as insulated beams and lintels that will allow to build the exterior and interior walls of a wooden house
[read more: gablok.be/en/]
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Endemic to the Namib desert, Welwitschia mirabilis is a plant that can live up to 1,000 years. Some individuals may be more than 2,000 years old. It grows only two foliage leaves reaching lengths up to 4 m
[read more: buff.ly/3Iu4mt1]
[photos: buff.ly/33Eg1GO]
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This TikTok user DYE2UXZJ3P9W made several slow motion videos of water balloons popped through various objects resulting in spectacular fluid motion effects, like this water flower
[more videos from Best of Tiktok: buff.ly/3m6VA9H]
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This is the first time you see a rocket launching with its booster landing (Iron Man style) in the middle of the ocean on a drone ship at sunset and in the same frame shot
[SpaceX Intelsat 33 & 34 mission: buff.ly/3SXnogK]
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IBM's ThinkPad 701c's unique butterfly keyboard rocked the laptop world when it debuted in 1995. This video shows it in action [read more: buff.ly/2EhUJfm]
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Researchers found that when a champagne bottle is uncorked, the CO₂ and water that is released creates under-expanded supersonic CO₂ freezing jets. This is actually the formation of a Mach disk during champagne cork popping [read more: buff.ly/2kBr7G7]
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A rainbow is an optical illuson, it's not an object & cannot be physically approached. Even if an observer sees another observer who seems "at the end of" a rainbow, the second observer will see a different rainbow-farther off
[📹 buff.ly/3I2Q1GQ]
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A kinetic LEGO sculpture of the Greek mythological figure Sisyphus endlessly pushing his boulder
[source, JK Brickworks: buff.ly/2GADEhP]
[feet motion and driving mechanism: buff.ly/2wTTswy]
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The giant Pacific octopus is the largest octopus in the world: the largest individual on record weighed an impressive 270 kg and measured 9 m across in length. Along with 8 arms, an octopus also has 3 hearts and 9 brains buff.ly/2wrH1aY [image: ow.ly/dEzX30nBCbM]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links