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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists report they have managed to create an artificial fusion reaction that produced more energy than it took to create. Formal announcement will follow tomorrow.
[read more: on.ft.com/3PgDdya]
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Rocket size comparison and how big is SpaceX Starship
[📹 Red Side: buff.ly/3BrTXwQ]
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Several types of halos & parhelia are visible at the same time in this atmospheric event captured in Zermatt, Switzerland, on Dec 10, 2022. The most impressive are a 22° and 46° halo, subsuns, circumzenithal arc
[📹 Daniel Caron: buff.ly/3FKnBju]
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Back in April, endangered Sumatran orangutan Sekali gave birth to her second son at the Toronto Zoo.
This is the moment its mother got to hold him for the first time.
[video, full story: buff.ly/3Fstuk2]
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Hurling hot water in freezing tempetatures has always its aesthetical reward
[📹 Douyin 抖音号 1530506662: buff.ly/3PgoC61]
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Giant Pandas subsist almost entirely on bamboo, eating from 10 to 40 kg per day. They play an essential role in the bamboo forests by spreading seeds as they roam, increasing vegetation
[read more: buff.ly/3UNC3LJ]
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Less than 200 vessels (across all sizes) suffer from marine accidents and capsize every year out of 80,000+ in total. Ships survive storms thanks to several measures
[read more: buff.ly/3fobhYn]
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Vincent Bal is "shadowologist" and filmmaker: he uses the shadows of ordinary objects to complete his artwork
[Instagram account: buff.ly/2tsOhi4]
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This is a photo taken by DeviantARTist Fallout99 and it shows how refraction can paint a 30-meter loblolly pine forest in a drop of water
[source: bit.ly/2tSoVsI]
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The Revolt Bear Mobil is a 1987 1/60 Bandai model kit with a very peculiar locomotion system
[video: buff.ly/3FjbWXs]
[read more: buff.ly/3uJ28kG]
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The HZ-1 Aerocycle, was a one-man "personal helicopter" developed by de Lackner Helicopters in the mid-1950s. It was expected to become a standard reconnaissance machine with the US Army, but the project was abandoned after two crashes
[video: buff.ly/3fyBu67]
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David Roentgen (1743--1807) took his royal patron by surprise when he delivered this beautiful automaton to King Louis XVI for his queen, Marie Antoinette, in 1784. An impressive mechanism moved (& still moves) a true neoclassical masterwork [full video: buff.ly/3fyEIGL]
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The Vortex Turbine by Turbulent Hydro is an eco-friendly way to harness energy from rivers and canals with a low height difference. A single turbine can generate from 15 to 70 kW of constant energy around the clock
[read more: turbulent.be]
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Leptocephalus is the flat and transparent larva of the eel, marine eels, and other members of the superorder Elopomorpha
[read more: buff.ly/3F7du7N]
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If you think dragons are just imaginary creatures look at this draco lizard. While it's certainly smaller than you probably expect, it's nothing short of impressive
[source, read more: buff.ly/3BYfUo7]
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Square or rectangular clouds are relatively rare occurrences, but they happen to appear in the skies from time to time, like this one filmed over Tucson, Arizona
[read more: buff.ly/3Fn7YNz]
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This variety of Orchid's flowers (Dracula Simia) strongly resemble monkey's faces
[read more: buff.ly/3YbbnaG]
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Physics 1 - Anatomy 0
[📹 cataldibeauty: buff.ly/3UHAyyI]
#SundayFunday
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Brittle stars move fairly rapidly by wriggling their arms which are highly flexible and enable the animals to make either snake-like or rowing movements
[📹 D. Allan Drummond]
[read more: buff.ly/3FjzYBt]
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Watch carefully: this is a monkey that gets upset when he's paid less than another monkey for doing the same job
[find more, full video: buff.ly/2pbzLta]
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How Thing was brought to life for Wednesday (and everything else you need know about the Addams family sidekick)
[read more: buff.ly/3hhnD94]
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Chital deer and Langur monkeys have a relationship where the monkeys drop vegetation to the deer and both species alarm the other about predators incoming
[read more: buff.ly/3BsEjBb]
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Take your time to understand exactly how differentiation is defined using the concept of limits
[source: buff.ly/2rZ2cQa]
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A wave that breaks (or “peels”) to the left, from the vantage of the surfer riding the wave is simply called a "left". Chicama, in Peru, is famous for hosting the world's longest left breaking wave
[read more: buff.ly/2ljYl9B]
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There's a dive site hidden in the heart of Slovakia with miles of flooded excavated tunnels. It's an opal mine where you can find otherwordly scene like this, with submerged ladders, tracks, and construction equipment
[read more, photos: buff.ly/3tSiDYQ]
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