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There's a place in Morocco where you can find goats perching on these trees' branches. Yes, goats on trees
[read more: bit.ly/1D4GlVG]
[📹 buff.ly/3BfWLgh]
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Normally, the Atacama Desert in Chile, receives less than 12 mm of rain a year. However in the years when rainfall is unusually high, between September and November, this can happen. It's called «desierto florido» [read more: buff.ly/3lSH2uf] [📸buff.ly/3gEsahO]
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A highly magnified video of single stoma opening and closing on a leaf of a Tradescantia spathacea plant, commonly known as a boat lily.
This is how a plant breathes
[source, Douglas Clark: buff.ly/3VhQAQ6]
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Artist Kohei Ohmori spends more than 200 hours on each project with a striking attention to details. Ohmori's hyperrealistic designs are drawn with ultra-thin lines and remarkably steady hand
Instagram: buff.ly/3CRv8va
YT: buff.ly/3RU81ED
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You can actually kind of 'suction' plasma with a Tesla coil and a syringe helped by a nail [source and full video, by ElectroBOOM: buff.ly/2IvYXD0]
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Crown shyness, the phenomenon in which the crowns of trees do not touch each other, is usually shown from below. This is what it looks like from above
[read more: ow.ly/p7Pf30osfEv]
[full 📹Dimitar Karanikolov: buff.ly/35rGRwt]
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That time a beluga whale returned a phone someone dropped in the sea waters of Norway
[full story: buff.ly/2HqKkl0]
[about the beluga: buff.ly/3gD6DcW]
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Bees can be blue. Xylocopa caerulea, the blue carpenter bee, is non-aggressive and semi-solitary. They do not build hives like honeybees but instead prefer to live inside dead wood
[read more: buff.ly/2EAqS6s]
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The blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet [read more: buff.ly/2Gxvibz]
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Photographer Camden Thrasher was shooting a demonstration of US Navy fighter jets when he captured a remarkable close-up photo of a plane creating “shockwave lines” as it approached the speed of sound
[read more: buff.ly/3CdWNq8]
[author's IG: buff.ly/3Slspj1]
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Paper cuts are so painful because at a microscopic level paper is quite rough. A knife makes a straight cut, but paper acts like a saw blade and does more damage to nerve endings. Paper also leaves behind tiny fibres, irritating the wound even more ow.ly/P6XY30nrjiu
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The Golden Mechanical Horse is a is a kinetic sculpture by artist Adrian Landon, commissioned by and displayed at the Daxton Hotel, in Birmingham, Michigan
[read more: buff.ly/3SMBBgW]
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Imagine to grab a Champagne bottle by the neck and hurl it against a wall. What could go wrong? Some science considerations: buff.ly/3E8gfCK
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Jeffreys Bay in South Africa is famous for abundant seashells: the variety of colors, sizes and shapes, makes of it one of the most famous places for seashells collection [source, read more: buff.ly/2HgMmXZ]
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Poecilotheria metallica, also known as the peacock tarantula, is the only species in its genus to be covered in blue hair: it also exhibits an intricate fractal-like pattern on the abdomen [read more: buff.ly/2I3uBac] [clip by Daniel Vamu: buff.ly/3m3Qi0H]
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Non-Newtonian fluids turn into solids when pressure is applied. It's called the process of impact-activated solidification that occurs when compressive forces are applied to fluid-grain suspensions
[📹 University of Chicago: buff.ly/2NB5r7r]
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The Giant Alaskan Malamute is a selectively bred Malamute that exceeds 70 kg in weight & 70 cm of height, originally bred to pull heavy goods between cities throughout Alaska. They have been recorded to pull loads up to 500 kg
[📹: buff.ly/3Rbvf9O]
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These silky sheets are actually a spider web. As happened in June 2021 in Australia, sometimes there are so many spiders making webs the silk becomes like one gossamer blanket [read more: buff.ly/2UDXx4q-] [Carolyn Crossley: buff.ly/3kdIybk-]
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The reticulated python is among the three heaviest snakes.
This is how the it climbs a tree.
[read more: buff.ly/3RKCt4z]
[source, sped up video: buff.ly/3U19njp]
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Space Glass is a handmade array of glass, metals and crystals in multiple layers, encapsulating planets and stars in glass [read more: plusalpha-glass.com]
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In 1971, Soviet geologists working in Turkmenistan set a crater on fire to prevent the spread of methane gas, expecting it would burn for a few days. The hole has since been burning for over 51 years and is know as The Door to Hell: buff.ly/2EpPiOl
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Listen to this sound
It comes from the depth of the oceans and from millions of years of evolution. Ultimately, the ancestral song of a mother protecting her baby
[📹 Paul Nicklen + read more: buff.ly/3zT063l]
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An impressive eruption of the Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala, captured on August 27, 2022
[📹 Rob Brown: buff.ly/3xgyGUR]
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Unlike other mammals, camels' red blood cells are oval. This makes them better at withstanding high osmotic variation without rupturing when drinking large amounts of water: a 600kg camel can drink 200 L of water in 3 minutes buff.ly/31jk3QO [gif: buff.ly/2E9lDMB]
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Artist Guillaume Legros paints on grass and mostly on hill & mountain sides: he has to wait for sunny days, but when this happens, slopes become immense artworks. And his paint is safe for the environment
[read more: buff.ly/3Reo4ND]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links