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The most common neurotransmitter in the central nervous system is glutamate, present in more than 80% of synapses in the brain. This is how it works
[full animation by Biohaven Pharmaceuticals: buff.ly/3FDBcpy]
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Cechenena helops is a moth of the family Sphingidae. Its caterpillar has a very peculiar appearance, as showed by this photo by Frank Deschandol
[source, more photos by the author: buff.ly/33FkecJ]
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This is how WWII bunkers in Normandy used a fake air vent to return grenade to sender
[📹 Normandybunkers, read more: buff.ly/3gZMaz5]
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At the end of the 19th century, Paris was a hub of art, culture and technology, experiencing its Belle Époque. David Martin took this Lumiere Brothers' footage colorizing it with AI.
A Sunday in Paris (1900)
[read more: buff.ly/3VPofRE]
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Blockchain for babies
[📹 and more, readplaysing: buff.ly/3ztlDAV]
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Multiplying with lines
[read more: buff.ly/3gRwcHx]
[why it works: buff.ly/3VONNPc]
[📹 mrbeandamatematica: buff.ly/3XQO31E]
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Using a neural-net tool, Photoshop and historical references, Daniel Voshart created photoreal portraits of Roman Emperors, transforming and restoring 800 images of busts to make the 54 emperors of The Principate (from 27 BC to 285 AD)
[source: ow.ly/dtct50B3WDo]
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MoMA recently released a short film from 1902 of a German suspended railway called the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, shot in 68 mm. It shows an unusual drone-like view of a German city at the beginning of the 20th century
[full video: buff.ly/3fOh6fn]
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The story of the Chinese students protesting with printouts of the Friedman equation – which governs the expansion of the universe – because the pronunciation: is similar to "free的man" (free man)
[read more: buff.ly/3VptOqg]
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Fun fact: the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost part of Brazil
[read more: buff.ly/2Q73lxK]
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Thanks to its intelligent kinematics, FESTO's BionicFlyFox can master the agile flying manoeuvres of its natural role model
[find out more: buff.ly/2I8kWPL]
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The story of Jadav Payeng, the man who planted one tree every day for 37 years on Majuli Island. He has now created a forest and wildlife reserve twice the size of Central Park in New York
[read more: buff.ly/3VpCY65]
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Male seahorse giving birth
Thyy go thrugh pregnancy after the female deposits the eggs into their pouch where they are fertilized and grow, then hatch as fully formed mini-seahorses
[video: buff.ly/3XS0rhZ]
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This picture by T. Matsuzawa shows the insightful moment in which a chimp is teaches a young to use stone tools. Nut cracking is one of several culturally transmitted behaviors in chimpanzees
[source, read more: buff.ly/3ul5pWW]
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Don’t fall in
While hiking 30 miles in Iceland, John Derting showed how deep a seemingly shallow glacial body of water can seem.
[Instagram: buff.ly/32pWVTJ]
[TikTok: buff.ly/3nUWiK6]
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Wistman's Wood is a remnant of an ancient forest near Devon, England. It has captured the imaginations of visitors for thousands of years, inspiring legends and stories
[📷 Neil Burnell, read more: buff.ly/2CoveKw]
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A remarkable photo taken by Rick Geiss from Gulf Shores, Alabama in July 2016, showing a majestic cumulus congestus cloud with a microburst pouring a rain shaft over the ocean
[source, read more: buff.ly/2tiJkIC]
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This is the peculiar effect you obtain when you blow up a balloon, cover it with glue, let the glue dry and then pop the balloon
[source, antonxmi: buff.ly/3Vt1EdZ]
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The oldest known Earth rock was actually found on the Moon. Lunar Sample 14321, better known as "Big Bertha", is the first discovered meteorite from Earth, collected by the 1971 Apollo 14 mission in the Fra Mauro region [read more: buff.ly/3A1IOkv]
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The Fulton surface-to-air recovery system is a system used by the CIA, United States Air Force and United States Navy for retrieving persons on the ground using aircraft without landing
[read more: buff.ly/2ArUJuy]
[video: buff.ly/3OT1YAq]
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A robotic spy gorilla investigates the extraordinary wildlife that thrives in the tropics and infiltrates a wild gorilla troop
[full video, BBC: buff.ly/3FlPpuj]
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Haruki Nakamura brings his artwork to life through the time-honored tradition of paper crafting. Using paper engineering, he constructs whimsical creatures and dolls that move in surprising ways
[read more: buff.ly/2F3mkFj]
823
The bizarre story of Raul Cano, whose work helped inspire Jurassic Park: he successfully revived yeast that had been trapped in amber for 25 million years and successfully used it to make beer [read more: ow.ly/xrH430nZvMh]
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Volcom teamed up with Stab to install a 30-meter floating docking anchored in the middle of an A-frame peak in Bali, Indonesia to demonstrate how surfers can easily run and hang loose on perfect waves rather than paddling. It's called "The Dock" [video: buff.ly/2l7GKBD]
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Marine biologist Simon Pierce filmed this school of hammerheads in the Galapagos National Park with a remote camera and this is an amazing shot that shows a cloud of sharks as if they were in a vitual sky [source and more photos by the author: ow.ly/xl2y30nY8V1]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links