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Colugos are arboreal gliding mammals that are native to Southeast Asia. A fur-covered membrane, called a patagium, connects to the face, paws, and tail, giving them an unusual body shape
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The Stoos Bahn is the steepest funicular railway in the world and is paraded as a masterpiece of Swiss engineering: it hauls passengers from the valley floor up a near-vertical 110% gradient
[full video by National Geographic: buff.ly/3kwCcnA]
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Japan’s simple, elegant and super complex underground bicycle parking system. Actually a bicycles' matrix
[source, full video: buff.ly/3haZCdw]
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Of the 118 elements that make up everything—from the compounds in a chemists arsenal to consumer products on the shelf—44 will face supply limitations in the coming years
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The story of Felicia, the ferret who was hired to clean the Fermilab accelerator, running through the tubes with a cleanser-dipped swab attached and being rewarded with hamburger meat [read more: buff.ly/2SsApoc]
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In 2013 it was estimated that there was ~86 million tons of plastic pollution in the world's oceans [buff.ly/2JRpMGM]. By 2050 there could be more plastic than fish in the oceans by weight. This video [buff.ly/2WsfI8O] was filmed in Dominican Republic in July 2018
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When cayman's eggs fail to hatch, cayman moms crack the eggs with their mouth, breaking the hard shell first and then piercing the inner leathery membrane, until the young cayman is born
[full video: buff.ly/2LSoU3t]
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Artist Guillaume Legros paints on grass and mostly on hill & mountain sides: he has to wait for sunny days, but when this happens, slopes become immense artworks. And his paint is safe for the environment
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LEGO washing machine
[full video, The Brick Wall: buff.ly/3YUKNCT]
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In ceramics, slip trailing is a technique that uses a fine pointed dispenser to apply liquid clay and create ornaments. Surface tension is crucial to the clay behavior
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This dramatic time-lapse movie by the Hubble space telescope shows Uranus, its moons and the seasonal changes on the planet
[source: buff.ly/3gQIoVl]
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In this 1964 episode of the ABC’s classic science program, ‘Why Is It So?’, Professor Julius Sumner Miller re-attempts a favourite experiment, and things don’t quite go to plan. But then, his pure joy as experiment takes unexpected turn
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Volcanic lightning is always impressive to see, but it's not just an awesome photographic subject. It could also yield clues about the Earth’s geological past. This picture was taken by Takehito Miyatake during an eruption of sakurajima volcano in 2014 buff.ly/2POMMGg
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The chemical traffic light is a color-changing redox reaction typically using glucose, sodium hydroxide, indigo carmine (dye), and water.
[📹 techience: buff.ly/3vn3MZk]
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The pyrocumulonimbus cloud is a type of cumulonimbus cloud that forms above a source of heat, such as a wildfire or volcanic eruption. This one was captured during the Big Creek fire near Fresno, California in September 2020
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This is known as the Morellet's Tiret Illusion, a modified painting where small circles seem to appear and disappear when your eyes move over them. Enlarge the picture and move your eyes around
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Our ability to perceive depth, combined with perspective, can produce some extremely weird results. For example, you're convinced that these two tables are different in size and shape, but they're not
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A 22° halo is an optical phenomenon created by ice crystals in the form of a ring with a radius of approximately 22° around the Sun or Moon. This one was spotted over Courchefull, Rhone-Alpes, France on February 8, 2018
[source: bit.ly/2BlUGkO]
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Happy birthday to Linus Torvalds, creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel
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Born #Today in 1903, John Von Neumann is generally regarded as the foremost mathematician of his time and said to be "the last representative of the great mathematicians" bit.ly/1T30Urk
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Defending a castle, the Escher way
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Cheetahs don't roar, they meow.
The ability to roar is made possible by a special two-piece hyoid bone in the throat of the Felidae family's members. Cheetahs only have a one-piece hyoid bone
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The enigmatic Canon 1 from J.S. Bach's Musical Offering (1747) can be thought as a Möbius strip. You can follow the score, note for note & then watch as the piece reverses itself, running back in the other direction
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How to easily clean silver using common household items: hot water, baking soda, salt, and an aluminum foil. It works thanks to electrolysis
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Paul Barton is a concert-pianist playing music to blind, injured and orphaned elephants with extraordinary results
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Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links