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There are no plants in this picture.
pink: orchid mantis
brown: ghost mantis
dark green: hooded mantis
light green: leaf insect
grey: cat-eyed mantis
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Artist Markos Kay's “aBiogenesis” reimagines the origin of life in a rendering of the lipid world hypothesis: the first self-replicating, cell-like objects were composed of of fatty acids that could not dissolve in water
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The SR-71 holds the "speed over a recognized course" record for flying from New York to London—distance 5,570.79 km, 2,908.027 km/h, and an elapsed time of 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds—set on 1 September 1974
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How ultrasonic cleaning works on jewelry.
The ultrasonic machine removes any dirt and dust even in holes and cracks through cavitation bubbles created by high frequency waves
[The Forbidden Cleaner: buff.ly/3jEzejk]
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There is a valley in Antarctica called the 'Dry Valleys' which scientists consider to be the closest of any terrestrial environment to Mars & which hasn't received any rain in almost 2 million years
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Imagine being inside a painting by Van Gogh. This 3D video by 幻维数码 Motion Magic is designed to make you experience in 360° the famous Starry Night by the dutch artist
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On June 16, 2014 a series of violent tornadoes impacted the town and surrounding area near Pilger, Nebraska. This footage by Greg Johnson shows the most striking moments of the event
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There are many different ways of forming an ellipse. With a Trammel of Archimides, constructing it as a special case of a hypotrochoid, with the Van Schooten method and as the curve surrounding two foci
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Burn an element and it will show its color signature. Each element has an exactly defined line emission spectrum, we are able to identify them by the color of flame they produce
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[📹 Thoisoi: buff.ly/3GtyiXW]
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In a trip to Japan Albert Einstein found himself without any money to give a courier a tip for his delivery, so he wrote a note advising him to keep it as it may one day be worth more than any tip he could give him. It sold in 2017 for $1.56m [full story: buff.ly/2yk0ZTb]
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Crows like to pull tails. Some researchers think it is to distract another animal from eating allowing either the crow itself or an accomplice to snatch the food away, while others think they do it just for fun
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92 years ago #Today, the first photograph showing the curvature of the Earth was exhibited in Cleveland, Ohio
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Peristeria elata, also known as Holy Ghost orchid or dove orchid, has some curious properties: the central part of the flower has a well-defined dove shape and its perfume is similar to beer
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22 years ago #Today, while en route to Saturn, @CassiniSaturn made its closest approach to Jupiter. This view of Io against the gas giant's clouds was sent to Earth two days later go.nasa.gov/2ixxp3D
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Trapa bicornis is an annual aquatic plant whose seeds pod strongly resemble a devil, a bull or a bat
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#Today in 1924 (still less than 100 years ago), Edwin Hubble announced to the world the existence of other galaxies than the Milky Way bit.ly/2ikVc74
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Artist Kenichi Kanazawa might be well defined as a 'sound sculptor' as in this clip he gives a visual demonstration of the power of sound to put order into chaos
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Many homes in Pompeii baked their own bread, but it seems that bakeries or pistrina were popular food outlets in the town. These are loaves of bread carbonized in the volcanic pyroclastic flows of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE
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How sounds make their way from the source to your brain
[source, NIH, read more: buff.ly/3i2C4hB]
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Fusion splicing is the act of joining two optical fibers end-to-end using a source of heat, which is usually an electric arc but can also be a laser, a gas flame, or a tungsten filament
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This is how the Meteor Camera on the International Space Station sees meteors
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Cystisoma is a crustacean that lives between 600-1000 m deep in the ocean. Its body is totally transparent: only its eyes are pigmented. This one has a brooding pouch full of orange eggs
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[📹 Alejandro Damian-Serrano]
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The mineral pyrite also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS₂. It can be found in nature with almost perfect cubic formations like these ones
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According to an index developed in 2015, Earth is not the most habitable planet found yet. Kepler-442b, a rocky near-Earth-sized exoplanet that is 1206 light-years away from Earth, has a rating of 0.836. On the other hand, Earth has a rating of 0.829 buff.ly/3bJe6QF
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