1976
Adam Pickard took DALL-E 2's inpainting feature & 57 prompts, asking the AI to draw its impressions, then combined the results in Adobe After Effects obtaining this: an AI version of Eames' «Powers of Ten»
[read more + original: buff.ly/3QBWs4A]
1977
This photo from 1979 shows a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employee opening the world's heaviest hinged door, which was 2.5 m (8 ft) thick, nearly 3.7 m (12 ft) wide, and weighed 44 tons (97,000 lbs) [source, read more: buff.ly/3pOTNcv, buff.ly/3Ref8I7]
1978
Hippos can sleep underwater using a reflex that allows them to bob up, take a breath, and sink back down without waking up
[read more: buff.ly/2G658QW]
[📹 Vladyslav Vyazovskiy: buff.ly/2G64JxU]
1979
The wails coming from an enclosure at Taronga Zoo, Sydney may sound like the cries of a human baby. But it's just a trickster resident: a lyrebird named Echo learned how to mimic the shrieks & shrills of human babies
[read more: buff.ly/3tCrph9]
1980
40 years ago #Today, The Man of the Year in Time magazine was a non-human for the first time. A computer received the honour as 1982's “greatest influence for good or evil” bit.ly/2C7YmoM
1981
Following simple programmed rules, these autonomous robots assembled at Harvard University, arrange themselves into vast, complex shapes
[source, read more: buff.ly/2HVLA2Y]
1982
You can pop a balloon with an orange: the limonene in the orange peels dissolves or weakens the rubber balloon [read more: ow.ly/IMhK30ngcc2] [full video, Home Science: bit.ly/2tOhU0f]
1983
While young penguins are busy learning swimming, a Giant petrel appears and attacks with its beak a young where the skull is less muscular and less fat. But a father is not going to let that happen [full video, National Geographic: buff.ly/3xoAg5E-]
1984
There are some rock faces that are simply spectacular, including this rock face in Saltstraumen, near Bodø in northern Norway, result of the so called Caledonian Orogeny, happened about 490 – 390 million years ago [read more: buff.ly/2vsmu5W]
1985
A parietal eye, also known as third eye or pineal eye, is a part of the epithalamus present in some vertebrates. Located at the top of the head, it's photoreceptive, regulates circadian rhythmicity and hormone production for thermoregulation [read more: buff.ly/3tdTKtO]
1986
23% of the world's fresh surface water - more than every American great lake combined - is in lake Baikal [source, read more: buff.ly/2G9hVl9]
1987
How a scientist discovered on Google Earth that cows align themselves North/South when grazing or resting. And how follow up studies revealed deer do this as well
[read more: ow.ly/uZxr30nUXHK]
1988
The attractive bumblebee orchid or ophrys bombyliflora flowers grow in Canary Islands, Turkey and Lebanon. The large sepals, small bronze colored petals and brownish lip of this unusual flower resemble an attractive (laughing) female bee
[read more: ow.ly/vXsA30o8oPi]
1989
The Atlantic puffin can hold a large number of small fish in its spacious beak. This photo by Sunil Gopalan is a stunning portrait of the wild bird with a bountiful feast of tiny fish in its bill, which was selected by National Geographic
[read more: buff.ly/2xAi0eB]
1990
Artist Yoann Burgeois captures the moment of Immortality in what it's his mesmerizing marriage of Arts and Science.
This is his perfomance named "Houvari: Turning Force of Relations"
[read more: buff.ly/3iqlx6Y]
1991
Survivorship bias is the logical error of concentrating on people/things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to some false conclusions. This is an example buff.ly/2pq8yTq
1992
This Smithsonian Channel clip shows three plant species that use different methods of propulsion to spread their seeds. Violets, touch me nots, and poisonous squirting cucumbers explode in some pretty incredible ways [full video: buff.ly/3bhf2vL]
1993
The rarely pristine summit of Mount Everest and a breathtaking 360° panorama captured by Ben M. Jones
[source: bit.ly/3c9os0C]
1994
The African tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) walks - not climbs - up the branches of a tree, using its prehensile tail for balance. It can even climb trees with no branches [source, read more: buff.ly/2HKoKu3]
1995
A peacock's feathers have fiber-like components called barbules, whose periodic nanostructures produce the train's colors through optical interference and Bragg reflections, resulting in their typical vibrant iridescent plumage: buff.ly/3bZjEeD
1996
See this? It's a spider that pretends to be an ant and mimics the antennae with its front legs. The phenomenon is called myrmecomorphy and there are two reasons why a spider would want to mimic an ant: to eat them, and to avoid being eaten by them ow.ly/9JsM30nZtEc
1997
Rolls Royce is famous for including umbrellas in their cars' structure. This is a Ghost II model, where the umbrella is put in the car's door [source by Marcel Sommer: buff.ly/30rRVLm]
1998
The Geneva drive is a gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation into a discrete motion
[source, read more: buff.ly/2nya5bS]
1999
Octopuses are anti-social towards other octopuses by nature, but when given MDMA they’re much more friendly and try to “hug” each other
[read more: buff.ly/2QM4wle]
[full paper: buff.ly/2DiDZcP]
2000
A 2020 study found that winter workers in Antarctica started to develop a new accent. This is a result of people being isolated and in regular contact with only each other for several months [read more: buff.ly/3cRWq55]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links