2326
The marvelous hyerogliphics recounting stories of the King's victories, found on the wall of the second pylon (with a tourist for scale) at the Temple of Ramesses III, Medinet Habu, Luxor (XII century BCE) [read more: buff.ly/3xK41On]
2327
A radius measuring gauge set avoids complicated calculations, accurately measuring either the inside or outside radius of a piece
[video: buff.ly/3uTp6FG]
2328
Fynn Jackson folds intricate origami faces with paper and most of his designs are improvised, being the patterns the result of trials and errors [source and more artworks: buff.ly/3CdwGQh]
2329
It's not neither easy nor frequent to spot a humpback whale with a newborn calf. This extraordinary observation was made with a drone by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Marine Mammal Research Program in January 2019 [full story and full video: buff.ly/2onTLfp]
2330
This is an electron microscope picture of the front foot of a great diving beetle (Acilius Sulcatus, buff.ly/2IWakU3) taken by photographer Igor Siwanowicz
[source: buff.ly/2KAK0EG]
2331
Often referred to as the jelly bean universe, this jar displays the overwhelming amount of dark matter versus ordinary matter in the universe. The universe is estimated to consist of up to 95.1% dark matter/dark energy with 4.9% coming from ordinary matter ow.ly/HUC850xflVA
2332
The story of Guillaume Le Gentil, the astronomer who spent 8 years of his life on a quest to observe the transit of Venus, during which he was declared legally dead and his wife remarried, only for the sky to end up being cloudy on the day of the transit: buff.ly/3LMPubm
2333
Believe it or not, approximately 1/3 of all tracked space debris orbiting Earth comes from just two distinct events: China's anti-satellite test in 2007, and the collision between a defunct Soviet satellite with an operating U.S. spacecraft in 2009 ow.ly/Gazd50wO1rZ
2334
This is a Babylonian tablet recording Halley's comet, written in cuneiform on a clay tablet between 22 and 28 September 164 BCE
[source: ow.ly/OIKl30nMUti]
[read more: ow.ly/ZFLD30nMUwb]
2335
Is it rotating vertically or horizontally? Clockwise or counterclockwise? This optical illusion created by game developer & artist Frank Force features a moving shape that seemingly shifts each way and won the 2019 contest for the Best Illusion of the Year ow.ly/5jB730q2CJj
2336
A drone is probably the best tool to observe a controlled demolition [a silo in Aalborg Havnefront, Denmark, 2017. Full video: buff.ly/2ZHsMwf]
2337
This video uses a live imaging technique to visualize mouse T-cells killing mouse tumor cells. Cells were imaged for over 6 hours at a frequency of 1 image every 20 seconds
[source, read more: buff.ly/2WToyNK]
2338
The falling green characters at the beginning of all of the Matrix films have become perhaps the most recognisable visual from the film. So what constitutes the code? An incredibly complex equation? Nope, it's just a load of recipes for sushi [read more: buff.ly/2KxytCB]
2339
Ferrets, both useful and adorable, have a long history of assisting mankind by accomplishing the most impossible of tasks – including cabling
[read more: buff.ly/2kpBWav]
[full video: buff.ly/2X82wae]
2340
«When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic. But I guess that was exactly what I did»
#Today in 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
buff.ly/3m6l5c9
2341
This clip shared by the Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Department in May 2020 clearly shows the value of sleeping with your doors closed [source: buff.ly/3yM7Qn2] #FireSafety
2342
Particularly harsh and cold winters can turn a geyser into a 'frozen volcano', as happened to this geyser in a pond near the Glen Iris Inn at Letchworth State Park, New York in February 2015 [source, read more: ow.ly/omRR50E2uzY]
2343
The Cellular Conveyor (celluveyor) is a unique modular conveying and positioning system. It consists of several small hexagonal conveying cells, each with three individually driven omnidirectional wheels
[read more: buff.ly/2yqu56b]
2344
The remains of what could be the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Europe are being excavated in a Portuguese back garden: very likely a sauropod, a herbivorous dinosaur 12 meters tall and 25 meters long that roamed the Earth around 150 million years ago buff.ly/3ARjobi
2345
Lightning, for obvious reasons, is difficult to study. But these scientists have rigged together a contraption that enables them to make their own bolts of electrical power on demand. Their method: walk into a storm and send up a rocket on a string buff.ly/2u15Ea6
2346
A series of videos published by photographer Xavier Hubert-Brierre in 2012 ("le miroir en forêt") shows the footages of jungle creatures seeing their own reflections in a mirror for the first time
[full video, read more: buff.ly/3mOOZ30-]
2347
Explaining the popular internet phenomenon of "The Dress" with the help of some graphical tools
[source: buff.ly/3ekrD71]
[read more: buff.ly/2prohRb]
2348
Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans. Today, humans represent aproximately 34% of global mammal biomass, while 62% is humans' livestock and pets. Wild mammals are just 4%
[read more: ourworldindata.org/mammals]
2349
In Kenya, elephant excretions are used to make paper. Elephants poop up to 50 kg a day which can produce ~125 sheets of paper. This helps save the indigenous tree population and forest from being destroyed and creates a need for the 7000 elephants in Kenya buff.ly/2FRLnsn
2350
Corvids, a group of birds that include jays, ravens, and crows, spend a lot of time under their parents' tutelage. Researchers have found that this may partially explain corvids have exceptional intelligence [full paper: buff.ly/3f7PZfa]
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