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This graphic explains how Nomura's jellyfish multiply: from fertilized larvae, to polyps, to an incredible transformation that sees polyps walking and multiplying into trillions
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This is a Luna moth emerging from its pupa.
Thi smoth is extremely beautiful but the elongated tails of the hindwings are also useful: they confuse the echolocation detection used by predatory bats.
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When throwing paint turns into a masterpiece.
Paul Kenton is a contemporary artist, acclaimed for his cityscape paintings which capture the unique energy of cities across the world
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Nimo Planet wants its glasses to replace your laptop when you're on the go. Nimo is a mini-computer that sits on your head and gives you six virtual screens to work with when you're away from your desk.
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There's a place in Morocco where you can find goats perching on these trees' branches. Yes, goats on trees
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A photographic worthy natural phenomenon occurs every year in Lake Baikal. Masses of broken ice look like shards, transparent and shining in a turquoise color, caused by the slow and unequal pressure in the main body of the packed ice
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Unlike other mammals, camels' red blood cells are oval. This makes them better at withstanding high osmotic variation without rupturing when drinking large amounts of water: a 600kg camel can drink 200 L of water in 3 minutes
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This optical phenomenon has been defined as a parhelion, but it should probably be defined (more correctly) as a subsun, because it appears as a glowing spot when observed from above
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This clip shows, with beauty and elegance, two fluid properties:
- Laminar flow: buff.ly/2FvvQCv
- Surface tension: buff.ly/3UBTUp1
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Part of the watermelon farming operations include keeping them cooled off as they go from harvest to shipment. This farmer took advantage of their buoyancy to both transport them & keep their temperature controlled
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Where snow meets the sea
Taken on the western coast of Japan in the San’in Kaigan GeoPark by photographer Hisatoshi Matsumura, this is a beautiful photo that shows where biomes collide
[site: hisatoshimatsumura.com]
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Photographer Mandy Wilson has captured an extraordinary image showing a newborn dolphin riding on mom’s back around Penguin Island, near Perth, off Western Australia's coast – and seemingly smiling in delight
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Borgund Stave Church in Norway was built sometime between 1180 and 1250 AD. It's part of of a group of medieval churches almost only present in Scandinavia, built with wood only and without using a single nail through timber framing
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If you ever need to empty a bottle of its liquid (perhaps you’re cleaning the bottle) then there is a trick to do it quickly and it involves a whirlpool. This video demonstrates how
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The British Museum has a 3700+ year old clay tablet that is the world's oldest known complaint letter.
1750 BC problems.
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The commercial aviation industry has changed a great deal since it first became an integral part of the way we travel. This is what the Interior of an airliner looked like in 1926
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Hydra is a genus of small, fresh-water organisms of the phylum Cnidaria and class Hydrozoa. Biologists are especially interested in Hydra because of their regenerative ability — they do not appear to die of old age, being virtually immortal
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On the geometry of a Möbius strip a right pointing arrow points left after one trip around, a second trip restores the original orientation. This mathematical property is called non-orientability
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The spectacular sight of mountain goats defying gravity on a vertical dam wall in Italy, and all because they have a craving for some of Earth's elements essential to life
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Ed Fairburn repurposes old maps, transforming them into beautiful, highly-detailed portraits, merging landscape and humanity, reminding us that we are a product of our environment & vice versa
[site: edfairburn.com]
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According to historian Yuval Noah Harari, it's been 125,000 generations since the emergence of human species, 7,500 since human physiology reached its current state, 500 since the agricultural revolution, and only 20 since the scientific revolution: ow.ly/7xYC30nZIDb
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Gorillas, both in captivity and in the wild, use tools. This clip shows a family of gorillas trying to fix a defective door in their enclosure, using a modified branch as a tool
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Kjeragbolten is a boulder on the mountain Kjerag in Forsand municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The rock itself is a 5 m³ glacial deposit wedged in the mountain's crevasse, suspended above a 984-metre (3,228 ft) deep abyss [read more: ow.ly/RMl430nZI2T]
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Fluids take time to flow from one location to another. When the air is collapsing behind a vehicle in motion, a zone of negative pressure vs the surrounding air is created & this is one of the possible results
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An anechoic chamber is a room designed to completely absorb reflections of either sound or electromagnetic waves. This is the difference between bursting a ballon outside and inside a anechoic chamber
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