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On October 9, 1903, a NY Times editorial followed the ignominious failure of a government-sponsored flying machine, commenting that ""Man won't fly for a million years". The Wright Brothers made their first powered flight 9 weeks later
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The blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet
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Watch Delta Robot (right) and compact LR Mate 200iD robot (left) sort and move sets of four batteries with mesmerizing, seemingly-endless rhythm
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This is a map of the Atlantic Ocean floor published in 1968 based on a large number of deep ocean soundings compiled by Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp, painted by Heinrich Berann for National Geographic Magazine
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How the radius rotates over the ulna in a human forearm when twisted.
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The story of Dr. Khurshid Guru, who created a nebulizer on an Air Canada flight, using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler to help an asthmatic toddler breath
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Fruit farmers' most difficult task is organizing the havest. Tevel's drones select, pick and box only ripe fruits with the help of an AI working day and night
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The giant Pacific octopus is the largest octopus species, based on a scientific record of a 71-kilogram (157-pound) individual weighed live. Its arm can reach 4 meters in length
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These are drops of blood, plasma and water bead up when placed on the superhemophobic titanium
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Boxabl folding house is 40 square meters—about the size of a studio apartment—and they’re calling it the Casita. It costs $49,500 and can be set up in a day once it’s delivered
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A Tesla valve is a fixed-geometry passive check valve. It allows a fluid to flow preferentially in one direction, without moving parts
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These are Brown Marmorated Stink Bug nymphs seen hatching at extreme close up, captured by YT macro-photography channel Another Perspective
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Is it rotating vertically or horizontally? Clockwise or counterclockwise? This optical illusion created by game developer & artist Frank Force features a moving shape that seemingly shifts each way and won the 2019 contest for the Best Illusion of the Year ow.ly/5jB730q2CJj
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One radian is the angle subtended at the center of a circle by an arc that is equal in length to the radius of the circle. Another way to see that is that a radian is an equilateral triangle, with one side curvilinear
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Bismuth crystals have a peculiar spiral, stair-stepped structure with silver-pink hue, often with an iridescent oxide tarnish showing many colors from yellow to blue. This is how one can obtain them.
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In the 1980s the U.S. Army figured that around half of the landmass on the planet was impassable by conventional wheeled or tracked vehicle, so it partnered with Ohio State University to build this: the Adaptive Suspension Vehicle
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The story of Guillaume Le Gentil, the astronomer who spent 8 years of his life on a quest to observe the transit of Venus, during which he was declared legally dead and his wife remarried, only for the sky to end up being cloudy on the day of the transit: buff.ly/3LMPubm
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Can you figure out which of these orange lines is longer? Not only are they the exact same size, but their tops and bottoms are also directly in line with each other
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This is the first acknowledged picture of M31 or the Andromeda Galaxy, taken exactly 134 years ago #Today by engineer and amateur astronomer Isaac Roberts bit.ly/2hs77xX
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95 years ago #Today, the Krakatoa volcano began a new eruption on the seafloor along the same line as the cones of previous activity. By 26 Jan 1928, a growing cone had reached sea level and formed a small island called Anak Krakatoa (Child of Krakatoa) bit.ly/2zL0CzA
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This is a newfound species of tardigrade, one of about 1,300 known types of water bears. It was discovered in moss growing on dead tree trunks in Germany’s Black Forest. SEM image, magnified 2,400 times.
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Perhaps no animals have more of a reputation for their playful nature than river otters and this is true in any environment, be it water or snow. This one has been caught using its belly to slide on the snow
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Melibe viridis is a carnivorous sea slug with a gelatinous vacuum cleaner for a head: the nudibranch has an oral veil expanding into a "fish net" used to scan and eat its prey
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Escher's work is inescapably mathematical. After his 1936 journey to the Alhambra and to La Mezquita, he began to explore the properties of tessellation using geometric grids. This is a gif based on "Smaller and smaller" (1956) to stare at for eternity
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Unitree Go1 is a new genertion robot dog that can reach a speed of 17 km/h, with adaptive joints and intelligent side follow system. This is a mass testing event in a Unitree factory
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Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links