1026
A chameleon having a live birth. This happens only to some species that are "ovoviviparous", meaning that the babies grow inside the mother for a few months and are then born live
[source: buff.ly/3EYm60v]
1027
The evolution of the scrollbar
[Sébastien Matos: scrollbars.matoseb.com]
1028
This is what the Micrasterias rotata algae cell division looks like
[read more: buff.ly/2JquGGi]
[📹, Nikon Instruments Inc.: buff.ly/2sEtb0O]
1029
In case of doubts, the account we were talking about is @fasc1nate
1030
And what's worse, all the work done for free in order to make some order with sources and context, is taken for earning money. It took years for us to reach our respective number of followers, while this account, using this unfair method, made almost 1M followers in 2 months.
1031
There's one account that has been systematically copying & pasting my tweets and @gunsnrosesgirl3's ones. In the space of a couple of days, they uploaded a huge proportion of our accounts. We work for free, they use affiliate links to earn money 1/🧵
1032
You may never have heard of the plant Brassica Oleracea, but six vegetables you can find in any grocery store and you eat on a regular basis are actually all from this one plant and they're all human made products of selective breeding [source, read more: buff.ly/3F8yOXl]
1033
Kleptoparasitism, in which an individual steals food from other individuals of the same or a different species, is frequent in birds.
This paper explores the phenomenon among corvids: buff.ly/3qWB9Qh
[📹: buff.ly/3tdL8mS]
1034
In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion
[video from The Curiosity Show: buff.ly/36DvRNs]
1035
In case you have some difficulties to see my tweets, I used a shadowban test tool and the result seems to be positive. While I'm not sure it's accurate, the diffusion of my tweets radically decreased after the 2 blocks I had for (not) violating 'non consensual nudity rules'
1036
Some quantum physics
[full story: buff.ly/3i1moe1]
1037
When thunderstorms form in wintry conditions they can sometimes give rise to heavy downpours of snow with lightning often called 'thundersnow'. This was captured by Sam Roback in Buffalo, New York, on Nov. 18, 2022
[read more: buff.ly/39Tb7W9]
1038
The Etruscan shrew is the smallest known mammal by mass, weighing only about 1.8 grams (0.063 oz) on average and has a heart rate of over 1500 beats per min (~25 beats per second)
[read more: ow.ly/hYOj30nSnTY]
1039
'Vida' is a glass sculpture by Jack Storms made with 32% optical lead crystal, optical crystal and dichroic glass
[source, read more: bit.ly/2wVmE1M]
1040
An autostereogram is a single-image stereogram, designed to create the visual illusion of a 3D scene from a two-dimensional image. Often called 'Magic Eye', not everyone is able to see the hidden image, but you can use a trick: magiceye.ecksdee.co.uk [buff.ly/2J5DAwO]
1041
Stotting is a behavior of quadrupeds in which they spring into the air, lifting all four feet simultaneously
[read more: buff.ly/2r6WmJY]
[full video: buff.ly/31GAg1E]
1042
In this mesmerizing 6-minute time lapse, a single cell divides seemingly endlessly until what was once a yellow blob has become a wriggling, darting salamander tadpole
[read more: buff.ly/2TR1ttg]
[full video: buff.ly/2GYIaeG]
1043
The Pangeos is a concept created by Lazzarini Design for an itinerant floating city, comprising various hotels, shopping centers, parks, ship and aircraft ports, and all other facilities needed to house up to 60,000 guests
[📹 buff.ly/3Evwrzx]
1044
This visualization by @kevinmgill shows what Mars would look like today if it still had water (or tomorrow, when terraforming succeeds)
[source + details + read more: buff.ly/3G7Zc4W]
1045
This simple gif by Jakub Nowosad shows the effect of the Mercator projection on the real size of continents and countries on a planisphere
[source, read more: buff.ly/2rrI5Wz]
1046
#FibonacciDay is celebrated on November 23 because when the date is written like (11/23), it forms part of the Fibonacci Sequence (1, 1, 2, 3). How can you celebrate it? Go out and start looking for evidence of the sequence in the world around you buff.ly/3CKOlvx
1047
This is the Teotihuacan pyramid of the Sun before the excavations at the beginning of the XX century vs now. A simple hill covered by bushes and trees.
[see the early pictures of the pyramids: buff.ly/3i4oUjV]
1048
Sodium polyacrylate is a sodium salt of polyacrylic acid with formula [−CH₂−CH(CO₂Na)−]ₙ widely used in consumer products. This superabsorbent polymer has the ability to absorb 100 to 1000 times its mass in water
[📹 YT Hacker007]
1049
Wall Printing Machines can print in high quality CMYK + white colors, at an effective resolution of up to 720*2880 dpi. The ink is UV cured in milliseconds after printing, so you can touch or even wash it immediately.
[read more: buff.ly/3VfjYrb]
1050
This is an animated representation of all the multi-planet systems discovered in the Milky Way galaxy by NASA Kepler Space Telescope as of October 30, 2018. The systems are shown together at the same scale as our Solar System (dashed lines) [source, NASA: buff.ly/2KC5oHQ]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links