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The orchid species overall produces many amazing flowers but probably none is more so than the Anguloa Uniflora which has flowers that resemble swaddled babies
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This is what a transition between turbojet and ramjet more looks like.
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Sanderlings largely feed on isopods & mole crabs. They show a curious dynamic behavior, moving up and down along the shore according to waves & tides in order to catch their prey
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A continental drift flipbook, by Christopher Scotese
[full paper & DYI: buff.ly/3YogZP6]
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Tambja morosa, also known as gloomy nudibranch lives primarily in the Indo-Pacific area
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Yakhchāl (Persian: یخچال; yakh meaning "ice" and chāl meaning "pit") is an ancient type of evaporative cooler. By 400 BCE, Persian engineers had mastered the technique of using yakhchāls to create ice in the winter and store it in the summer in the desert buff.ly/2tzQeJG
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Do whales & dolphins play together? In recent years biologists recorded several cases of interspecies play, as this clip of dolphins playing with gray whales seems to confirm
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The Golden Mechanical Horse is a is a kinetic sculpture by artist Adrian Landon, commissioned by and displayed at the Daxton Hotel, in Birmingham, Michigan
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San Francisco, Market Street, April 14, 1906: four days before the M7.9 earthquake and fire.
[full video by NASS + process of restoration, upscaling, colorization: buff.ly/3pmvUc5]
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James Harrison is a blood donor whose unusual plasma composition has been used to make a treatment for Rhesus disease. He made 1173 donations throughout his lifetime, which are estimated to have saved over 2.5 million unborn babies from the condition ow.ly/ssIl30oabuI
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The making of a Penrose triangle by Hassan Abu-Izmero
[full video: buff.ly/3j4YIG3]
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The peculiar design solutions for vehicles and robots by Dan
[TikTok csd79632a0t: buff.ly/3uMCMlO]
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This Smithsonian Channel clip shows three plant species that use different methods of propulsion to spread their seeds. Violets, touch me nots, and poisonous squirting cucumbers explode in some pretty incredible ways [full video: buff.ly/3bhf2vL]
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This is the real scale of the Pillars of Creation, the famous elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula
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Time lapse of the Orion spacecraft approaching Earth from a distance of ~25,000 km
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[processin by Richard Conachey]
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A swan landing on water. An ability acquired in millions of years of evolution.
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This video shows a white blood cell chasing and eating a bacterium. To be more specific: the video shows a neutrophil chasing a staphylococcus aureus during phagocytosis process
[📹David Rogers: buff.ly/3FOyQY9]
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This drone view by Domenic Biagini not only shows the magnificence of the blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived, but also how the blowhole, essentially its nostril, is so similar to the human nose [source with more videos: buff.ly/3oaNLn4]
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Yosuke Ikeda created this interesting marble machine called AlgoLoop (Algorithm + Loop), where each click determines the motion of the marbles along the loop, in single, double and quadruple versions
[video: buff.ly/3yVNI08]
[Kickstarter: buff.ly/2XbePH9]
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If a plunging wave is not parallel to the beach, the breaking section (or curl) will move laterally across the face of the wave. This is the "tube" that is so highly sought after by surfers (also called a "barrel", a "pit")
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Panulirus ornatus is a large spiny lobster with 11 larval stages. It migrates annually from the Torres Strait to Yule Island in the Gulf of Papua in order to breed
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Mount Roraima and the other tabletop mountains in Canaima National Park are considered to be the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back around two billion years to the Precambrian Era
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists confirmed the National Ignition Facility has produced more energy from a fusion experiment than was put in. Q > 1 but the journey towards a (cost) effective reactor is still a long road ahead
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If you're old enough, you will recognize this sounds and appreciate the spectrogram of a dial up modem handshake. The full video's caption reports a verbal translation/breakdown of the process
[Full video, Scotty H: buff.ly/3zVFdom]
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This picture shows the latest image of our Milky Way's center by the MeerKAT array of 64 radio dishes in South Africa. Spanning four times the angular size of the Moon (2 degrees), the image is impressively vast, deep, and detailed
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Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links