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No, the tiger printer is not getting low on ink. Naturally color mutated tigers include golden, white and albino tigers (here shown with a normal tiger, left) [golden tiger: buff.ly/2GThUPn] [white tiger: buff.ly/2GUQtEV]
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Television viewers saw this picture of Earth during the sixth live telecast from the Apollo 8 spacecraft on its way home, 54 years ago #Today go.nasa.gov/2i0atfC
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The brown hyena (Hyaena brunnea), also called strandwolf, is a species of hyena found in Namibia, Botswana, western and southern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique and South Africa. It is currently the rarest species of hyena [read more: ow.ly/Y57Q50xnvwL]
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Ultrasonic transducers in this mini acoustic levitator are speakers emitting sound waves at a frequency of 43,000 Hz, which corresponds to a wavelength of 8 mm for dry air. Standing waves with nodes of low pressure will 'hold' the foam [source, read more: buff.ly/3ju40Iu]
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This tiny, intact skeleton of a baby rhinoceroslike dinosaur was unearthed in Canada. This toddler was just 3 years old and 5 feet (1.5 meters) long when it wandered into a river near Alberta, Canada, and drowned about 70 million years ago [read more: buff.ly/2lEpvs4]
2381
«The B in Benoît B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoît B. Mandelbrot»
#WednesdayWit
[more math humor: buff.ly/3W0mceN]
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Portalzkopes are kaleidoscope made with three angled mirrors, etched by hand and with cnc machines. The result with lights projected in them is quite impressive
[Instagram: buff.ly/3sgFHl1]
[site: portalzkopes.com]
2383
This is the piano that Steinway & Sons has unveiled when celebrated its 600,000th piece: 'The Fibonacci' features the iconic spiral and is made out of Macassar Ebony [read more: buff.ly/2EQ34XO]
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The story of Maurice Hilleman, the biologist who developed over 40 vaccines, among which measles, mumps, hepatitis, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia: an unparalleled record of productivity that saved more lives than any other scientist of the 20th century buff.ly/2o9ChmY
2385
Leptocephalus is the flat and transparent larva of the eel, marine eels, and other members Elopomorpha, the most diverse groups of teleosts, containing 801 species [read more: buff.ly/3F7du7N] [source, HRF U/W Production: buff.ly/3GluGoj]
2386
This is a visualization of the trigonometric function of the sine. The ordinate represents the value of the function, equal in absolute value to the length of the perpendicular dropped from the circular arc to the abscissa
[source: buff.ly/2PFiS8L]
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Costasiella kuroshimae is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk. It's often called sea sheep due to its aspect and it's one of the only animals in the world that can perform photosynthesis
[read more: buff.ly/2t9sPys]
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The Pilatus Railway is a mountain railway in Switzerland and the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient of 48% and an average gradient of 35%. This is a switch at the very beginning of the line [read more: buff.ly/3w9a6o5]
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Jellyfish blooms take place naturally as a result of ocean and wind patterns, ecosystem shifts, and jellyfish behaviors.
This one of Crambione mastigophora was captured by Alimar Amor in El Nido, Philippines in March 2020.
[📹 buff.ly/3B7iUfP]
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A volcanic bomb is a mass of partially molten rock (tephra) larger than 64 mm in Ø, formed when a volcano ejects viscous fragments of lava during an eruption. This one was observed on Cumbre Vieja volcano on Dec 3, 2021
[video: buff.ly/2ZZjiyI-]
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Telescopefish are solitary, active predators, frequenting the mesopelagic to bathypelagic zones of the water column, from 500 to 3,000 m. The common name of these fish is related to their bizarre, tubular eyes ow.ly/ER2330n5ayW [source of the photo: ow.ly/lIro30n5az6]
2392
If you take a look at the cut section of a red cabbage, you will certainly notice the fascinating and intricate pattern hidden within: in other words, a fractal [source, photo by Yiran Wang: buff.ly/3stz54w]
2393
The Welbike was a British single-seat motorcycle produced during World War II at the direction of Station IX: it was delivered in air drop canisters [source: buff.ly/3kTEvQG] [read more: buff.ly/2WXhpMp]
2394
When 2 bodies orbit around each other in space, we know exactly what happens. But when the bodies are 3 or more, things can be more complicated, no explicit formula for the orbits exists & we have to rely on numerical simulations. This is just one example: buff.ly/31DExDX
2395
Alsomitra macrocarpa has seeds which use paper-thin wings to disperse like giant gliders. The seeds, which are produced by a football-sized pod, can glide hundreds of metres across the forest
[read more: buff.ly/2xzxEqt]
[full video: buff.ly/2EDymnV]
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Albinism and melanism are genetic variations resulting from the mutation of different genes, causing two opposite pigmentation conditions buff.ly/3eiEb9A These are an albino and a melanistic alligators [video by Brian Barczyk: buff.ly/36xSHaD]
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Forests on caffeine. A recent study found that after only two years, coffee pulp treated areas had 80% canopy cover compared to 20% in the control area. The canopy in the coffee pulp areas was also 4 times taller than that of the control area [read more: buff.ly/31sWzYP]
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Blockchain for babies
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In 2019, Victor Vescovo descended nearly 11 km to the deepest place in the ocean - the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench. While breaking the record for the deepest ever dive, he found a plastic bag and sweet wrappers [read more: buff.ly/2LBvLQT]
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Cape penduline tits build a globular nest made of spider webs and silken fibers. They have a false entry and chamber below the actual entrance. This is a defence against snakes and other nest predators
[read more: buff.ly/3qsZDA6]
[source: buff.ly/3sDBhqa]
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