1551
The first direct observation of gravitational waves captured the merging of 2 black holes which emitted 36 septillion yottawatts of power (3.6×10⁴⁹ watts), greater than the combined power of all light radiated by all the stars in the observable universe ow.ly/JGIh30mudbE
1552
Despite their extremely futuristic appearance, skeletonics extend the movement of a humans arms and legs without the aid of any motor and it's not powered by electricity
[read more: skeletonics-us.com]
1553
With 12,500 parking places, the Bicycle parking Stationsplein in Utrecht, The Netherlands, is the world's largest bicycle parking
[read more: buff.ly/3CzdCur]
[📹 De Filmende Fietser]
1554
Magnetic aligners are suitable for aligning long, slender ferromagnetic objects like nails so they can be packaged compactly
[read more: buff.ly/2IXodHy]
[📹: buff.ly/3eA8YV1]
1555
Elephants help each other in distress, grieve for their dead, feel emotions like us. This is Nosey making her first new friend at her sanctuary after working in a circus for 29 years
[story: buff.ly/3CyhsE4]
[read more: buff.ly/3ENmkrT]
1556
Believe it or not, this is the Casio AT-552 Janus, a touchscreen and gesture-controlled calculator watch. From 1984
[full video, by ChromeFD: buff.ly/2SqavAU]
[read more: buff.ly/2N52pYA]
1557
This is what an empty 787 looks like [source, read more: bit.ly/2x0M5mE]
1558
Meet the Gastric-Brooding Frog. After laying her eggs, the female swallowed them whole. Weeks later after hatching and metamorphosing, tiny froglets would emerge from her mouth. Sadly, this species went extinct in 1981 [read more: buff.ly/2wAIjAF]
1559
Airplane wings aren't some rigid chunks of metal: in fact, they probably have a bit more flex than you'd expect. This is the behavior of a Boeing 747's wing in a turbulence
[read more: buff.ly/3E4n73u]
[source: buff.ly/3Ea123u]
1560
These are folded banded iron formation with shale interbeds, exposed in a pavement near Soudan, Minnesota, photographed by Haaken Fossen of the University of Bergen, Norway [source, read more, AGU: buff.ly/3FcQsKu]
1561
Typically found growing on the stumps and logs of rotting hardwoods, Rhodotus palmatus or wrinkled peach, is a mushroom species with a moderate antibacterial activity against Bacillus subtilis buff.ly/3g7bb91 [photo by Vadim Sumariuk: buff.ly/3fY26Pw]
1562
A series of camel sculptures carved into rock faces in Saudi Arabia are likely to be the oldest large-scale animal reliefs in the world. Initially dated back to 2,000 years ago, they have been now estimated to be 7,000-8,000 old [read more: buff.ly/2YOaAlJ]
1563
75 years ago #Today, Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier flying the Bell X-1 rocket plane bit.ly/2d3rRgE
1564
Rainbow and blue parrotfish are two species in the genus Scarus. In Florida, they can be frequently seen surface-feeding, as in this clip filmed by Lawrence Kent in Islamorada [read more: buff.ly/3H08O1Y] [source: buff.ly/3yKLIcK]
1565
Jason Sims is a visual artist working in the realm of perceptual art. Primarily using mirror, reflective glass and lighting, he produces piece wall works, freestanding sculptures and large scale installations that create the illusion of space and form jasonsims.com.au
1566
Living off the coast of south Australia, weedy seadragons (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) resemble swaying seaweed making them difficult to find in their natural habitats, even though they can grow to about 46 cm in length [source, full video: buff.ly/2BJHGEK]
1567
The SCMaglev is a magnetic levitation (maglev) railway system developed by Central Japan Railway Company and the Railway Technical Research Institute. On 21 April 2015, a manned seven-car L0 Series SCMaglev train reached a speed of 603 km/h (375 mph): buff.ly/2RQeEZy
1568
Owston's palm civet is native to South Asia and is currently listed as endangered, mainly due to habitat loss. It feeds on earthworms and other invertebrates
[read more: buff.ly/3F9qAiL]
[full video by SCARCE WORLDWIDE: buff.ly/3F8kCP6]
1569
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log(🏇) = log(🏃🏻♂️) - log(🐎)
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1570
Many fractals can be made up by the union of several copies of itself, resulting in self similar systems. A very interesting example is this "magic lake" by Matt Henderson
[read more: buff.ly/3T039iJ]
1571
How do you track a SpaceX rocket moving at over 5,000 km/h at a distance of perhaps 60 km away from the camera to produce such a clear and detailed imagery? You use Kineto Tracking Mounts [read more: buff.ly/3DQzaT5]
1572
A modern version of the Galton Box invented by Sir Francis Galton in 1894, built to demonstrate the Central Limit Theorem - showing how random processes gather around the mean [source, read more: buff.ly/3CyKlzY]
1573
Researchers have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game, Pong. They say this is the first ''sentient'' lab-grown brain in a dishand can sense and respond to its environment [full paper: buff.ly/3MqWqvK]
1574
This bizarre clip from the British Movietone archive is from 1940 and shows an invention supposed to keep babies quiet. It was also promoted as developing the leg muscles making every child a potential soccer international [source: buff.ly/3p9NNf7]
1575
The barreleye fish lives in the ocean’s twilight zone, at depths of 600 to 800 meters. It has a transparent head and tubular eyes, generally directed upwards to detect the silhouettes of available prey
[source, @MBARI_News: buff.ly/3shzln9]
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