1501
This guided tour of Mars' Jezero Crater from NASA’s Perseverance rover provides a glimpse of the Martian landscape from the rover's highest vantage point yet in the “Séítah” region [full video, read more: buff.ly/3EkobAe]
1502
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama also known as the Spider-Man agama, can't spin webs but can climb up vertical walls with ease [read more: buff.ly/2IHa1jT]
1503
Jacinto Convit, the scientist who developed the vaccine to fight leprosy and was still working to find a vaccine for cancer on his 100th birthday. Described as a popular hero, he never charged a person for the care he gave [read more: buff.ly/2L9dwOF]
1504
Trained African Giant Pouched Rats have found thousands of unexploded landmines & bombs. Researchers also trained these rats to detect tuberculosis. Most recently they are training them to sniff out poached wildlife trophies exported out of African ports buff.ly/2L46yua
1505
The story of Grigori Perelman, the man who solved the the Poincaré Conjecture, a problem that took a century for mathematicians to solve. He was offered the prestigious Fields medal and $1,000,000 and he declined both [read more: ow.ly/siwv30nG3bX]
1506
A 2020 study found that winter workers in Antarctica started to develop a new accent. This is a result of people being isolated and in regular contact with only each other for several months [read more: buff.ly/3cRWq55]
1507
The Glasswinged butterfly is a brush-footed butterfly, member of the subfamily Danainae. The tissue between the veins of its wings looks like glass as it lacks the colored scales found in other butterflies. This photo captures its majestic beauty [source: buff.ly/2rSV57Q]
1508
Made between the 1947 invention of the transistor at Bell Labs and the 1956 awarding of the Nobel Prize for Physics to its creators, this documentary is less about the discovery itself than its anticipated impact on technology and society [AT&T channel: buff.ly/3d49MxM]
1509
In the Socorro Islands, the change of seasons is marked by a swirling vortex of bubbles caused by a collision of cold and warm deep water currents. See how the local pufferfish was caught by surprise by the vortex [source: buff.ly/3s1Sky9]
1510
The late Shigeo Fukuda's sculptures portray deception & optical illusions: created entirely from forks, knives, and spoons, they cast detailed shadows like this motorcycle [read more: bit.ly/2fCNIPR]
1511
Kirigami (切り紙) is a variation of origami, where the paper is cut as well as being folded
This paper investigates the creation of shape-morphing material structure with Kirigami & this is how you square the circle
[full paper: buff.ly/3gbPdUh]
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1512
The story of Masako Wakamiya, the woman who became the oldest app developer at 84 years old, from when she got her first computer in 1997 to her first app developed when she was 82
[video story: buff.ly/3VALMXA]
1513
This is machine learning training on landscapes. StyleGAN3 was released in October 2021 and is a generative adversarial network particurarly effective in generating photo-realistic faces
[read more: buff.ly/3siB4Yl]
[📹 Gene Kogan]
1514
433 Eros is second-largest near-Earth object with an elongated shape and a mean diameter of approximately 16.8 kilometers. This is its size compared to New York City
[read more: buff.ly/3rXgQDh]
[📹 MetaBallStudios: buff.ly/3MADMl2]
1515
A slow motion look at an industrial sewing machine (Durkopp Adler 205-370) is probably the best way to understand how this kind of machine works
[explanation + animation: buff.ly/2BWKTkg]
[📹 Ben Geisler: buff.ly/3Mz7YNm]
1516
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]
[📹 __tuglife__: buff.ly/3rXMlNc ]
1517
The largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede—as big as a car—has been found on a beach in the north of England. The fossil—the remains of a creature called Arthropleura—dates from the Carboniferous Period, about 326 million years ago [read more: buff.ly/3qbNY8N]
1518
Despite their bulky and heavy appearance, hippos' subcutaneous fat layers are quite thin. The 2,000-kg giant is mostly made up of muscles, and 6-cm thick skin. This anatomical model by Jun Huang visualizes its muscular structure
[source: buff.ly/3S62N8M]
1519
That time a beekeeper made a beehive entirely out of LEGO bricks and 30,000 real-life bees moved in
[full story: buff.ly/3D1FGYV]
1520
A real time view of Aurora Borealis. Its bright "dance" is due to the collision between electrically charged particles that enter the earth's atmosphere at ~400 km/s and to magnetic reconnection
[read more: buff.ly/3CFMREu]
[📹 Matt Robinson]
1521
There's an enchanting artificial waterfall at the Osaka station, Japan, drawing current time and awesome shapes
[video: buff.ly/2pNSskP]
1522
12 people become 13 people. Where does the extra man come from?
[source and explanation: buff.ly/2rOXeCl]
1523
This remarkable long exposure capture by fine art photographer Amery Carlson, contains a dramatic lightning storm off the coast of Ventura, California (officially the City of San Buenaventura) in 2013 [source: buff.ly/2Gt4Sa9]
1524
Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat. Following rain, a thin layer of dead calm water transforms the flat into the world's largest mirror, 129 km across
[read more: buff.ly/37Ugxma]
1525
The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is one of the heaviest known bony fishes in the world. Adults typically weigh between 247 and 1,000 kg (545–2,205 lb). Yet, Newly hatched sunfish larvae are only 2.5 mm (3⁄32 in) long and weigh less than one gram [read more: ow.ly/ibW050AGZbW]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links