2101
El Castillo is a Mesoamerican step-pyramid that dominates the center of the Chichen Itza archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatán. This is a glimpse of the impressive light show held on the pyramid
[read more: buff.ly/2ZBc3ZE]
2102
Scotland is hardly visible from space due to clouds. This is a rare photograph of the Scottish Highlands captured on February 25, 2018 from the International Space Station [details and tags: buff.ly/2HEUnoL]
2103
A zombie snail
It's been taken over by a parasite controlling its motor functions & eye stalks, mimicking caterpillars. The parasitic worm wants the snail to be eaten by birds, in whose intestines it will reproduce
[read more: buff.ly/2ro2Nap]
2104
Designed at Harvard, this mesmerizing reconfigurable metamaterial could represent the future of design engineering
[source, full video: buff.ly/2K3b23G]
2105
This is what baby jellyfish look like
Planular larvae of Chrysaora hysoscella, the compass jellyfish: they are released to later develop into a sessile polyp which develops into immature medusae
[📹 Jellyfishfarm: buff.ly/3F0mV76]
2106
YouTuber and electrical engineer Malt Whiskey created this cube light display using 4,096 LEDs, an Arduino computer board and an LCD touchscreen [read more + videos: buff.ly/3daeMjX-]
2107
In this GoPro view captured by cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev (@OlegMKS) during a spacewalk on the International Space Station you can appreciate a magnificent view of the Canary Islands [source: buff.ly/3rbuQtT]
2108
The magpie is one of the most intelligent animals to exist. Their brain-to-body-mass ratio is outmatched only by that of humans. Their playful, curious spirit drives adaptation and exploration
[📹 The Magpie Whisperer: buff.ly/3eK7EP2]
2109
Kunho Lee and his friend built this 20" f/4 Bino Scope with a decent number of degrees of freedom for a binocular observation of the night sky in grand style
[video: buff.ly/3to1rdM]
[photos: buff.ly/3tsgT8L]
2110
The Barringer crater is 1.2 km wide and it was created about 50,000 years ago
Its impact energy has been estimated at about 10 megatons TNTe.
[read more: buff.ly/3qKTuzS]
2111
This balancing cube can balance itself on any of its edges or corners and owes this ability to three rotating mechanisms which act like gyroscopes using the conservation of angular momentum.
[📹 ReM-RC: buff.ly/3BhCyG8]
2112
White, painted stripes on the body protect skin from insect bites, the first time researchers have successfully shown this effect. Among indigenous peoples who wear body-paint, the markings thus provide a certain protection against insect-borne diseases ow.ly/BzbK30nmkN9
2113
The African tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) walks - not climbs - up the branches of a tree, using its prehensile tail for balance. It can even climb trees with no branches [source, read more: buff.ly/2HKoKu3]
2114
Java mouse-deer are capable of breeding at any time during the year. Additionally, female mouse-deer have the potential to be pregnant throughout most of their adult life, and they are capable of conceiving 85–155 minutes after giving birth [read more: ow.ly/YkUe30nmY9v]
2115
This video showing an F-18 approaching to a tanker aircraft, visualizes how mid-air refueling takes place
[📹 full video, JTSuits: buff.ly/3xo9hso]
2116
This giant elephant toothpaste experiment has been conducted by Nick Uhas & David Dobrik and it's possibly one of the biggest reproduction of the rapid decomposition of hydrogen peroxide
[📹 ow.ly/vX8o30q3Etc]
[read more: ow.ly/D87r30q3Eth]
2117
In terms of Earth's history, in this brilliant infographic by Karl Tate, our last 100 years are ~0.02% of the tiny brown line at the top [source: buff.ly/2HeRlnC]
2118
This impressive video of a lightning apparently striking two cars, is a proof you're relatively safe not thanks to the tires, but because a car is a Faraday cage
[read more: buff.ly/3bSqKkL]
[📹 LSC/Michaelle Paul Whalen, Florida, July 1, 2022]
2119
5 years ago #Today, @CassiniSaturn reached the end of its pluriennial mission in space. A mission meant to last 3 years in orbit around Saturn, and instead the spacecraft spent 13 years, 76 days there, closing with a Grand Finale [360° coverage: buff.ly/2xe4XwK]
2120
This is the famous design of an ambiguous object illusion by Kokichi Sugihara, the inventor of this art form. A clever combination of reflection, perspective, and viewing angle produce this striking illusion buff.ly/2P6DEMy [explanation: ow.ly/lSY830nmncA]
2121
Kanzi the bonobo lives in America and has learnt how to build a fire, light it using matches and toast marshmallows on it. It shows just how like us some primates really are [full video: buff.ly/2vBMawH] [read more: buff.ly/2OAjWwZ]
2122
«From grandma to young woman». The effects of the g-forces on a human are mostly visible here in the facial muscles and in the temporary change of aspect, but they actually do much more [read more: buff.ly/2ZwZrXo] [source: buff.ly/3cUItFo]
2123
A considerable portion of an owl body volume is made up by feathers: as a consequence, the length of their legs is never correctly estimated [read more: buff.ly/2vwNukL]
2124
Jewel scarab beetles
They have an exoskeleton that contains intricate nano-structures that are responsible for their appearance
[read more: buff.ly/3BfQpwN]
[📹 Krzysztof Pach: buff.ly/3RZd736]
2125
Dinosaurs were big and some prehistoric animals were huge, but the blue whale is not only the largest animal in existence, it is also the largest known animal to have ever existed
[read more: buff.ly/2qPcZbf]
[source of the image and credits: buff.ly/2HAG2K2]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links