1776
How photographer Jani Ylinampa brilliantly captured the beauty of a small island through all four seasons [source, read more: buff.ly/2JoZMxv] [author's Instagram: buff.ly/3cu0t9m]
1777
Steve Joy built a coin operated feeding box for crows. And this is the proof crows can use a vending machine
[full story and video: buff.ly/2yJWBQC]
1778
The perfect moment: how Clark Little captures giant waves crashing onto shore
[read more: bit.ly/2h9J78c]
[author's site: clarklittlephotography.com]
1779
Puglia is a region where ancient olive trees often sport bizarre, fantastical shapes, often twisting and turning about themselves. L’Ulivo Pensieroso (the Thinking Olive Tree) is a (possibly 500 year old) plant with a very peculiar human appearance: buff.ly/3mPS9V5
1780
This scanning electron microscope picture shows a nerve ending. It has been broken open to reveal vesicles (orange and blue) containing chemicals used to pass messages in the nervous system. The picture was captured by Tina Carvalho [source: ow.ly/3FAy50wTBnk]
1781
Created in 2005 by Ryota Kanai, the so called healing grid has less regular pattern at the peripheral parts. If you stare at the center, the irregularities start to heal themselves because your brain strongly prefers to see regular patterns
[source: buff.ly/3tZVmol]
1782
How fast are you spinning around Earth's axis? This chart shows you the rotation velocity as a function of latitude bit.ly/2ioM0CR [source of the chart: buff.ly/2R2iulB]
1783
Super agile and balanced, Direct Drive's Diablo is the world first wheeled-leg transformable robot powered by 6 direct-drive motors. Ah, and it can moonwalk
[source, full video: buff.ly/3qwLBy9]
1784
If CO₂ emissions were visible, this is what they would look like [source, read more: buff.ly/2Eo95hn]
1785
This has been called 'the most annoying gif on the Internet' [buff.ly/30DLya6] but it has some interesting references, because it's a kind of a visualization in gif form of the concept of coastlines' fractal dimension: buff.ly/3ny2zv7
1786
Fangate is a company realizing fan-folding gates, in a way that you probably never saw before fangates.it
1787
This bear has been spotted crawling on ice instead of walking. The possible explanation is the bear knows the ice is thin and a more distributed weight on the surface unit can allow it to safely reach the snow
[Emma Postolec: buff.ly/3FaldRE]
1788
A Petoskey stone is a rock and a fossil, often pebble-shaped, that is composed of a fossilized rugose coral, Hexagonaria percarinata. Such stones were formed as a result of glaciation, in which sheets of ice plucked stones from the bedrock
[read more: buff.ly/2tXbhGo]
1789
Rubik’s cube solving robots like this one are entirely made of LEGO and based on a LEGO MINDSTORMS® NXT 2.0 kit Robot designed for this purpose
[read more: buff.ly/3zDGL6i]
1790
Crops under solar panels can be a win-win, and in dry places, photovoltaic shade can even reduce water use, suggests a recent study. Cherry tomatoes saw a 65% increase in CO₂ uptake, a 65% increase in water-use efficiency, and produced twice as much fruit buff.ly/2ZQCdW8
1791
The World’s Smallest Snowman was fabricated from three 0.9 micron silica spheres and stands less than 3 microns tall [read more: buff.ly/2h4AHJB]
1792
A classic one to wish you all a Happy = Neʷ - yeᵃᴿ
1793
Mars is about 50 million miles farther away from the Sun than Earth and also, its atmosphere is about 100 times thinner than Earth's. So if you were standing on the Martian equator at noon, it would feel like summer at your feet, but winter near your head: ow.ly/1XqG50wwSHZ
1794
Thomas Medicus' sculptures are made from segments of painted and hand-cut glass presenting a different image depending on which angle the observer views the rotating sculpture
[read more: thomasmedicus.at]
1795
Cownose rays typically swim in groups, which allows them to use their synchronized wing flaps to stir up sediment and expose buried clams and oysters, sometimes even surfing a wave
[read more: buff.ly/3CFV0XP-]
[video: buff.ly/3l2cd7L-]
1796
The flexible shell of soft shell turtles allows them to move more easily in open water and muddy lake bottoms, allowing them to move much faster on land than most turtles
[read more: buff.ly/3wC2OcW]
[📹 Manny Vizcaya: buff.ly/3cqqEkU]
1797
This generative art by TikTok's recursiveidentity shows a fractal-like zoom into an Edward Hopper world, aptly exploded to provide a sort of a cubist trip into multiple dimensions and points of view
[📹 + more videos: buff.ly/3wUd0O9]
1798
There is a small Pacific Island where about 10% of the population are completely colorblind (only see shades of black/white/grey). The condition limits vision in full sunlight, but may lead to sharper vision at night, like for night fishing [read more: buff.ly/2KJztUd]
1799
Pavegen tiles are used to generate kinetic energy, and each step on them may generate up to 7W of off-grid electricity [source, read more: buff.ly/3AxW7uE]
1800
Dr Tatiana Erukhimova from @TAMUPhysAstr shows the outcome of a classic experiment: what happend when you pour liquid nitrogen in hot water
[read more: buff.ly/3Vw8e2U]
[📹 TAMU Physics & Astronomy videos: buff.ly/3Qm5YJ2]
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