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There is a world of difference between the cars we vehicles we drive today, and the vehicles our parents drove. One of the major differences, aside from aesthetics is: safety. This is a visualization of the gap
[full video, read more: buff.ly/2U2KxEf]
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The feet of geckos have a number of specializations. Find out the science behind their amazing capabilities
[read more: bit.ly/2izZJH4]
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Bald eagle courtship involves elaborate, spectacular flight displays. These include swoops, chases, and cartwheels, in which they fly high, lock talons, and free-fall, separating just before hitting the ground
[📹 Mark Smith: buff.ly/3WnOijV]
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Most ice cores are drilled in Antarctica, where the oldest continuous ice core record extends to over 2 million years. Cores are drilled in 4 m long sections, but the deepest are over 3 km in depth.
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A non-Newtonian fluid is a fluid that does not follow Newton's law of viscosity, i.e. viscosity is not constant and it's a funtion of the stress applied.
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This video compares the size of tsunamis from the smallest wave to the biggest tsunami
[📹 HD, Red Side: buff.ly/3R8UrNA]
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That's how a wooden chess piece is made
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The eye of typhoon Trami, captured by astronaut Alexander Gerst from the International Space Station before landfall in Taiwan in 2018
[source, read more: buff.ly/2DHBLnB]
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In this BBC Horizon documentary from 1964, Arthur C. Clarke made some remarkably accurate predictions about the future we now know, highlighting important breakthroughs, like the Internet
[full video: buff.ly/3fewrsx]
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From the hand's palm, clockwise:
- Idolomantis diabolica
- Phyllocrania paradoxa
- Deroplatys lobata
- Theopropus cf. elegans
- Aethalochroa insignis
[📷 Wuttikrai K.: buff.ly/3ViEF4A]
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The F-16 Fighting Falcon has a thrust-to-weight ratio greater than one, providing power to climb and vertical acceleration. In this clip, you see one climbing to 15,000 feet in 20 seconds
[📹 Murat ÖZPALA: buff.ly/3FUCbnd]
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At St. Louis Aquarium kids can design a fanciful sea creature, and then watch it come to life and swim with all the other sea creatures in a wall-sized digital aquarium
[source: buff.ly/2Z9dBdW]
[more about Sketch Aquarium: buff.ly/3jORn8O]
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A harshad number in a given number base is an integer that is divisible by the sum of its digits when written in that base.
2022 and 2023 are both harshad numbers
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There's a giant sculpture in New Zealand that gives the illusion of being a cartoon piece of paper on a hilltop
[read more: bit.ly/2zNG5Ld]
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The Myasishchev VM-T Atlant was modified to carry rocket boosters and the Soviet space shuttles of the Buran program
[read more: buff.ly/3oPlnqe]
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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
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When you slide a cup of coffee across a rough surface, you may see vibrations happen. The patterns formed are Faraday waves, nonlinear standing waves appearing on liquids enclosed by a vibrating receptacle
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The Kamenstein World of Motion Rocket Teapot Kettle is a quite rare object: made of polished stainless steel, the kettle has two steam-driven rocket which move around the pot when the water boils
[read more: buff.ly/3sGGtYW]
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This is the size of the star Betelgeuse compared to our Solar System size
[source, Captain Chaos: buff.ly/2lGXlMP]
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Lascaux is a complex of caves in southwestern France. Over 600 Upper Paleolithic parietal wall paintings (19,000 year old) cover the interior walls and ceilings of the cave. This website allows you to take a virtual tour of the cave: buff.ly/386DL2C
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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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Because the O₂ molecule has two unpaired electrons, it is paramagnetic. Consequently, it is attracted into a magnetic field. This experiment made by Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations channel provides an evidence
[full video: buff.ly/2SkACtE]
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124 years ago #Today, Marie Skłodowska Curie discovered the radioactive element radium while experimenting with pitchblende, a common uranium ore bit.ly/2C7cnFJ
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An Eiffel Tower model made with extremely high accuracy by a 5 axis CNC machine
[source, full video, Hermle: buff.ly/3I29BD7]
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The goal of this project by photographer Georg Popp was to produce tahis single image made up of 600+ sea urchin shells. The largest urchins are around 10-12cm in diameter, the smallest ones not even 0,5cm
[source, read more: buff.ly/3rP295D]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links