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Newton's third law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
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The Andromeda galaxy is 6 times bigger in the sky than the full Moon: it's just too dim to see with the naked eye. This composite created by Tom Buckley-Houston shows what it would look like at night if it was just brighter
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Can a triangle have three right angles? Yes, on a curved space like a sphere. This is also one of the reasons we know the Earth is round
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Negative space, in art, is the empty space around and between the subject(s) of an image
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This now iconic video by Stephen Morris shows how a domino can knock over another domino about 1.5x larger than itself. A somewhat surprising mechanical chain reaction
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Supension demonstration
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«One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions»
— Grace Hopper
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This impressive photo by Keri Lee Nelson shows us a mushroom-shaped iceberg. Part of a larger iceberg that's slowly shedding weight via calving, as it loses weight the smooth part (which has been submerged for some time) is rising out the water [source: buff.ly/2QLLvRd]
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A crinkle crankle wall is an unusual type of garden wall built in a serpentine shape typically found in the UK. It economizes on bricks because it can be made just one brick thin. If a wall this thin was made in a straight line, it would easily topple over ow.ly/4LY850zYx9T
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Hyundai-10000 is the world’s biggest shear-leg floating crane in operation. The 10,000-ton shear-leg floating crane is equipped with two 180-meter-long crane booms and two sets of 70 m high back stay
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This site drives you through 750 million year of Earth history and tracks your current location through geologic time: buff.ly/2sQ33QA
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This is the level of detail you can get from a 365-Gigapixel picture
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The unexpected behavior of the origami karakuri puppets by Haruki Nakamura
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How is it that Beethoven, who is celebrated as one of the most significant composers of all time, wrote many of his most beloved songs while going deaf? The answer lies in the math behind his music
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«There is something unspeakably sinister about a machine that does nothing—absolutely nothing—except switch itself off» —Arthur C. Clarke [buff.ly/3u2JUYn]
This version of the Useless Machine was made by Ridiculous Robots [full video: buff.ly/2yCty16]
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Lawrence Anthony was known as the "elephant whisperer". When he died in 2012, a group of wild elephants which he had helped rescue and rehabilitate walked up to his home on their own, and stood around in an apparent vigil for two days, before dispersing ow.ly/aKFB30o9dII
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The average dog can count to 5 and understands about 165 words, including signs, signals and gestures. The smartest dogs understand up to 250 words, putting them on par intellectually with 2-and-a-half-year-old humans [read more: buff.ly/2KiJ5rL]
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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]
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Sleep evolved before brains. Hydras are living proof. Studies of sleep are usually neurological. But some of nature’s simplest animals suggest that sleep evolved for metabolic reasons, long before brains even existed [read more: buff.ly/3wduzps]
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Inspired by artists such as Dali, Caravaggio and HR Giger, Mike Dargas studied various techniques and since his youth developed a passion for realism, which he narrowed down over the years to hyperrealism. This is one of the oil paintings he realized ow.ly/rWjo30o9Xav
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This is a 300-year-old book wheel kept in the Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Puebla, Mexico: it allowed 18th century researchers to have up to seven books open at once
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Exemplary representation of the Ohm's law
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Emperor penguins transport their chicks on their feet. Some of them might be doing that the wrong way
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The differentiation of umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells into neurons. This is possibly one of the first high-resolution, long-term, live cell time-lapses showing this process
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Nice visualization of Newton's first law: an object will remain at rest, unless acted on by a net external force
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