2026
Grand Lisboa is a 47-floor, 261-metre-tall hotel in Sé, Macau, China. Its peculiar shape lends itself to particularly evocative shots that mix old architecture and sci-fi like views, like in this photo by Paul Tsui buff.ly/2qR8YDi [source: buff.ly/30YAJw9]
2027
Almost 100 years before selfies became a thing, this man was taking photos of himself and his friend with the best cameras available at the time [read more: ow.ly/eWvV30npSg8]
2028
The Nazis branded Einstein's theory of relativity to be "Jewish physics" in the book "One Hundred Authors Against Einstein". When asked how he could win an argument against so many people Einstein replied that one fact was more powerful than 100 scientists ow.ly/uBpB50ApQDT
2029
This short video footage shows a Martin RB-57D bomber observing a nuclear test explosion during Operation Hardtack, in the Pacific Proving Grounds, on July 12, 1958
[source: buff.ly/2qVjPvM]
[clip: buff.ly/3eTLeZN]
2030
Over the course of 3 days scientists pumped 10 tons of cement into an abandoned ant hill. After weeks of digging, the colony’s intricate & impressive structure is revealed. This one
[full video, from "Ants! Natures Secret Power": buff.ly/2ICATyB]
2031
This impressive underwater photo by Emma Holmann shows a couple of humpback whales with their calf as capture off the coast of Vava'u, Vava'u, Tonga [author's site and more photos: emmahphotography.com]
2032
The green shield bug (Palomena prasina) lays its eggs in hexagonal batches of 25 to 30, and a single female will lay three to four batches. Each egg frequently shows marks on it and sometimes pareidolia makes the rest buff.ly/30JyF8I [photo: buff.ly/30Okv6m]
2033
To catch their prey, blue-footed boobies can dive deeper than 20 meters and for longer than 30 seconds, but their dives usually are rather shallow and short. They plunge into the water from as high as 100 meter. And totally synchronized [full video: buff.ly/2Jc3RF8]
2034
Cleaning solar panels is crucial to maintain their performances. Skip cleaning means losing up to 17% – 25% of power generation due to the accumulation of dirt and dust
This is one way you clean solar panels
[read more: buff.ly/3DACW5x]
2035
Alligators move on land by 2 forms of locomotion called "sprawl" (with the belly making contact with the ground) and "high walk" (up-on-four-limbs). This is a high walk used by a big one spotted in Central Florida in 2017 [source: buff.ly/3FWqcUF]
2036
Esper Bionics develops products in the areas of orthopedics and neurology. Their myoelectric hand prosthesis uses Machine Learning approach to recognize situations [seen in action: buff.ly/30VJM0K] [explained: buff.ly/3r4hJGY]
2037
We're accustomed to seeing smoke as something that floats in the air and it generally soars, but when the particles of burned substances have density which is higher than air's, the smoke can behave differently and drip down like water [source: buff.ly/30YIfY0]
2038
What happens if you roll a circle inside a circle that’s 4, 3 and 2 times as big? You get an astroid, a deltoid and... A straight line! [read more: bit.ly/2pkEhs1]
2039
This is the world's largest air cannon, built by Laborky Cz in collaboration with the TV show "Wonders of Nature" in 2015. The cannon could shoot air (with smoke to make it visible) more than 100 m, breaking a giant wall of cardboard boxes [full video: buff.ly/2TpT0Pe]
2040
Crabeater seals share teeth adaptations including lobes and cusps useful for straining smaller prey items out of the water column [source, read more: buff.ly/2K3fZty]
2041
Mosquitoes do not feed on blood as their daily source of food.
Male mosquitoes only eat flower nectar, while female eat flower nectar, switching to blood when reproductively mature and in need of proteins to develop eggs.
[full paper: buff.ly/3qQtROl]
2042
The Taipei 101 skyscraper has this damper with a mass of 728 tons & a diameter of 5.4 m. It helps stabilize the building in high winds & earthquakes.
This is how it worked during the M6.9 earthquake on September 18, 2022
[📹 HD: buff.ly/3Lmxsx5]
2043
Arkansas has one of the best quality quartz on Earth in the Hot Springs and Mount Ida area, where you can find several "dig-your-own" mines. This is how quartz is extracted.
[📹 Rocksforthespirit: buff.ly/3QS8czR]
2044
This is a sturgeon from British Columbia: this kind of fish can reach a length of 6 meters (20 feet) and an age of 100 years.
[read more: buff.ly/3RU03fD]
[📹 Yves Bisson: buff.ly/3Scp5pT]
2045
This is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai like you’ve never seen it before.
Photographer André Larsen used an FPV racing drone to fly from the top of the Burj Khalifa building to the bottom
[📹 HD: buff.ly/3QXVPSF]
2046
Jaguars are excellent swimmers
[read more: buff.ly/3LmNkje]
[📹 buff.ly/3RQl8r5]
2047
A standing wave generated at the Numerical Test Tank at the University of São Paulo, Brazil
[Source, Reddit user u/caiocgrweb: buff.ly/3M1xee2]
2048
Roughly 78 kg of garbage were ejected in a specialized trash bag from the International Space Station in July and they burned up in Earth's atmosphere. This is the first use of an airlock trash bag ejection system on the ISS buff.ly/3LrhmSY
2049
The Trampe (now known as Cyclocable) is a famous bicycle lift in Trondheim, Norway, invented and installed in 1993 by Jarle Wanwik. It covers a 20% gradient slope and its use is free
[read more: buff.ly/3Umm3RK]
2050
This cube extrusion fractal was made by Reddit user u/TheDarksideofSnow using Blender. At the end of the iterations, it has 2,691,544 faces and interestingly, you can see the Sierpinski triangle pattern in it
[source, read more: buff.ly/3roLg1Z-]
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