1801
Thomas Young proved that light is a wave, described elasticity, capillary action, explained how our eyes see colors, compared 400 languages vocabulary, deciphered hieroglyphs and contributed to music theory. He is called "The last man who knew everything" buff.ly/3gcAiDo
1802
The American Meteor Society has received 793 reports about a very bright fireball spotted over northern England and Scotland on Setpember 14, 2022
[more info + videos: buff.ly/3qGiEjg]
1803
The Cereus Forbesii ‘Spiralis’ is a rare cultivar of the Cereus forbesii prized for its spiral growth habit. It is a cross-pollination between the Cereus forbesii and the Cereus peruvianus
[📸 Ernesto Murguía]
[source: buff.ly/3c6rOlk]
1804
The floor of the Florence Cathedral has some kind of amazing optical illusion built into it [read more: bit.ly/1svoOCh]
1805
Hiking in the mountains in North of Scotland, the author of this video came across a dried up river bed with a fresh water spring pouring thousand of liters out of it
[read more: buff.ly/3hxCY55]
[source, he_grows: buff.ly/3UHWlXt]
1806
Shelf clouds announce the arrival of storms & when combined with cumulonimbus thunderheads, they can even look like giant alien motherships. Stephanie Weller captured this majestic example in Navarre Beach, Florida in 2020 [source: buff.ly/3nlKNKl]
1807
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest, most powerful particle accelerator: in a way it's the world's largest single machine. It consists of a 27-km ring excavated between the lake of Geneva and the Jura mountain range at an average depth of 100 m. Let's see some facts
1808
Can you find a traditional 5-point star shape within this illustration? Look carefully, it may be hard to find, but once you find it, you'll always "see" it when you look at this picture
[source: buff.ly/2IMhDxG]
1809
Division by zero is a mathematical challenging concept: see what happens when you try in on a mechanical calculator
[source, read more: buff.ly/3lvqQkX]
1810
«Ladder to the sky»
This small wooden jetty on a foggy lake in Latvia creates a brilliant optical illusion of being totally suspended amidst the sky
[📹 elizabetevizuma: buff.ly/3D4uARv]
1811
National Geographic chose this as the best picture of 1987. This is the story of Dr. Zbigniew Religa, captured after a 23 hour heart transplant, and of his patient Tadeusz Zitkevits, who ended up by outliving his surgeon [read more: ow.ly/jz4P50wlaI7]
1812
“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light”
― Alexander Pope
#HappyBirthday #IsaacNewton
(born 380 years ago #Today)
[gif: buff.ly/3JrvMB4]
1813
'Denny' is the only known individual whose parents were two different species of human. The 13-year-old Neanderthal-Denisovan hybrid girl lived 90,000 years ago in central Asia, where a fragment of her bone was found in 2012 buff.ly/3AgYcee [📷buff.ly/2BuOExP]
1814
Photographer Haukur Sigurðsson took this picture of cross country skiers that look like musical notes. And someone just put them in music
[score: buff.ly/2HWawaB]
[music: buff.ly/2ro9zNX]
[author's IG and source: haukursig.com]
1815
That time @StationCDRKelly dissolved an effervescent tablet in a floating ball of water on the International Space Station, and captured a video in 4K
[full hi-res video: ow.ly/ow0z30ntvrA]
1816
Familiar fruits and veggies like watermelon or corn didn't always look and taste this way. From bananas to eggplant, here are some of the foods that looked totally different before humans first started growing them for food
[source, read more: ow.ly/uCVi50xgrSj]
1817
Among the things that you might not know about antimatter there's the fact that bananas produce antimatter, releasing one positron—the antimatter equivalent of an electron—about every 75 minutes.That's because bananas contain a small amount of potassium-40 buff.ly/2Jbd41p
1818
Henningsvær is a fishing village located on several small islands off the southern coast of Austvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago in Norway. Its stadium has probably the world's most captivating position [read more: buff.ly/2I7KfS8]
1819
This video shows a little skate (Leucoraja erinacea) embryo hatching from its egg
[read more: buff.ly/3DGJWh6]
[📹 Andrew Gillis, University of Cambridge: buff.ly/3qUa8xa]
1820
In November 2021, a ROV operated by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute captured this clip of a giant phantom jellyfish, more than 1,000 m deep. Scientists have only encountered it ~100 times in ~120 years
[📹 @MBARI_News: buff.ly/3yaJhzS]
1821
The Netherlands is a leader when it comes to food production due to innovations in agricultural techniques which improve efficiency. Growing a kg of tomatoes in the Netherlands uses 9.1 liters of water. The global average is over 210 liters of water per kg ow.ly/fGQn30nEJYM
1822
See what fact checking means before posting: means reading, spending time and cross checking, reconstructing a context. This is not a zunzunCito (sic) and not a hummingbird. It's a miniature created by Ina Malinik
{Instagram: instagram.com/p/CCXkKpXJI3r/] twitter.com/jimrosecircus1…
1823
The world's hjghest tides occur in the Bay of Fundy in Atlantic Canada. This time 2011 lapse movie by Leo de Groot speeds up by 720 times the fall and rise of the tide in Hall's Harbour, Nova Scotia, highlighting what we could call the ocean's breath: buff.ly/3ipfMld
1824
Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral, with the formula Cu₂CO₃(OH)₂. It crystallizes in the monoclinic system and most often forms botryoidal, fibrous, or stalagmitic masses
[📹@rocksforthe spirit: buff.ly/3F2MNB6]
twitter.com/Limportant_fr/…
1825
Beer is one of the oldest drinks humans have produced, dating back to at least the 5th millennium BC in Iran. This is a 4,000 year old beer receipt recording a purchase from a brewer, c. 2050 BCE from the Sumerian city of Umma in ancient Iraq [read more: ow.ly/n7bT30obqqq]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links