2301
How do you track a SpaceX rocket moving at over 5,000 km/h at a distance of perhaps 60 km away from the camera to produce such a clear and detailed imagery? You use Kineto Tracking Mounts [read more: buff.ly/3DQzaT5]
2302
Check out this £2,500 high tech luxury bed from 1959. It is chock full of gadgets and everyday conveniences from the headboard to the foot of the bed, most importantly a space for your cup of tea
[read more, British Pathé: buff.ly/3AKrl0w]
2303
In contrast to the honeybee, most bee species are solitary and have no hives, no workers. Diadasia diminuta – or simply the globe mallow bee – sleeps in the orange flowers called Globe Mallows. Joe Neely captured beautiful photos of this unusual sight: buff.ly/2IuojVn
2304
‘Wallace’s giant bee’ is the world’s largest bee, about the size of a human thumb. Thought to be exctint since 1981, a team of scientists rediscovered it in the Indonesian forests on North Molucca in January 2019
[📹, Clay Bolt: buff.ly/3OOc1H3]
2305
This is not laser gunfight, it's how glass bottles are manufactured [source, full video: buff.ly/2OnY5on]
2306
Phyllocrania paradoxa, common name ghost mantis, is a small species of mantis from Africa remarkable for its leaf-like body. It comes in various brownish shades from very dark brown to greenish gray [read more: buff.ly/39qY4tL] [source of the gif: buff.ly/3pjbYI6]
2307
Thanks to a close look at wings in nature, the FESTO's BionicSwifts are agile, nimble and can even fly loops and tight turns. The artificial swallows can move in a coordinated and autonomous manner by interacting with a radio-based indoor GPS [read more: buff.ly/3cK5fQT]
2308
Meet the bowerbird - one of the most flamboyant birds in the natural world. Bowerbirds go to extreme efforts to attract a mate, constructing delicate nests and decorating them with what humans might throw away [source, BBC Earth: buff.ly/3FEBwEG]
2309
For nearly 200 years we knew that spiders could move through the air & "fly" but we never understood exactly how. Only a recent series of studies found that spider's ballooning relies on the Earth eletricity field, or Global atmospheric electrical circuit buff.ly/2tXCxFF
2310
Sea lions physiology allow them to dive for long periods of time, very deep and in nearly any condition. See them ride roaring waves near Santa Barbara Island, California
[read more: buff.ly/3RtYTXn]
[📹 Ryan Lawler: buff.ly/39KwXKz]
2311
Neuronal migration is fundamental in central nervous system development. The assembly of functioning neuronal circuits relies on migration. This is a time-lapse phase contrast microscopy of migrating neuronal cells [Graham Wright: buff.ly/3qTkyOX]
2312
Gripping workpieces just as a chameleon's tongue grips insects – that is the operating principle of the adaptive shape gripper DHEF. The adaptive shape gripper grips energy-efficiently and reliably when combined with a pneumatic drive [full video: buff.ly/3aX2dGA]
2313
The terrifying moment a car was struck by lightning in Morocco in 2017 and the relieving moment a crowd gathers around within seconds to help
[read more: buff.ly/3jUEK1m]
2314
Do whales & dolphins play together? In recent years biologists recorded several cases of interspecies play, as this video filmed by Jaimen Hudson for BBC Earth seems to confirm [read more: buff.ly/3pyVNH8-] [video: buff.ly/3jvgeke-]
2315
«Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions , binding together people who never knew each other [...] Books [and writing] are proof that humans are capable of working magic»
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Season 1, Episode 11
buff.ly/3T88GnM
2316
Photographer and sculptor Yves Lappert uses pieces of wood and other simple materials to play with lights and shadow, obtaining extremely effective optical illusion with a minimalist gestures [IG account: buff.ly/3x1HmPD] [site: buff.ly/3NHrTK6]
2317
Manta rays have the largest known brain of any fish in the ocean. Underwater footage has even shown these rays are smart enough to give cleaner fish instructions, indicating to them which body parts need more attention [full video: buff.ly/3vS1Szk]
2318
In 1924, The Metropolitan Museum released two films about Arms and Armor. "A Visit to the Armor Galleries" was especially popular and includes this famous scene that shows the flexibility of a medieval armor
[video + read more: buff.ly/3w6xhj0]
2319
The Canadair CL-415 (Superscooper, later Bombardier 415) is an amphibious aircraft based on the Canadair CL-215 and designed specifically for aerial firefighting
[read more: buff.ly/2ZTwJMb]
[source, full video: buff.ly/3ht7qbO]
2320
This is what 35,000 walrus look like along a shore [source, read more: bit.ly/1oF3MJd]
2321
Biologists long believed lions band together to hunt prey. But Craig Packer has found that's not the main reason they team up. The lions’ behavior, communities, evolution, are shaped by one brutal force, what Packer calls “the dreadful enemy": other lions ow.ly/Xtxq30nYV1J
2322
How to turn a standard PS4 controller into a brilliant dual shock joystick for a better gaming experience, using only 3D printed parts
[read more: thingiverse.com/thing:4618312]
2323
Each of the rings in the image are circles, even though they certainly do not appear to be. This image by @AkiyoshiKitaoka is a visualization of the so called popple illusion
[read more: ow.ly/ob7l30nylcj, buff.ly/2FO2dYm]
2324
Mauna Loa, Earth’s largest active volcano, just woke up after 38 years, flooding the bowl-like caldera with a pool of glowing lava.
This is a footage captured by Andrew Hara
[source: buff.ly/3Ffde6U]
[read more: buff.ly/3AVsMu4]
2325
Bears can climb steep cliff faces very nimbly.
This 2014 video by Stephanie Latimer captured two Mexican black bears (mom and cub) climb Santa Elena Canyon
[source: buff.ly/2LU7GEN]
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