2251
This video showing Danielle and Kekoa at the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, gives an idea of the size of a wolf
[full video: buff.ly/3RuykBU]
2252
Anodizing titanium generates an array of different colors which are dependent on the thickness of the oxide and determined by the anodising voltage
[read more: buff.ly/2Py1DUF]
[📹 buff.ly/3eHdXDa]
2253
Mars is about 50 million miles farther away from the Sun than Earth and also, its atmosphere is about 100 times thinner than Earth's. So if you were standing on the Martian equator at noon, it would feel like summer at your feet, but winter near your head: ow.ly/1XqG50wwSHZ
2254
The threadfin snailfish (Careproctus longifilis) is found at depths between 1,900 and 3,334 meters (6,230 and 10,940 feet) and measure up to 15 cm (about six inches long).
[read more: buff.ly/3RSPQj7]
[📹 @MBARI_News: buff.ly/3qqNeNB]
2255
Jellyfish blooms take place naturally as a result of ocean and wind patterns, ecosystem shifts, and jellyfish behaviors.
This one of Crambione mastigophora was captured by Alimar Amor in El Nido, Philippines in March 2020.
[📹 buff.ly/3B7iUfP]
2256
A Boy and His Atom is a 2013 stop-motion animated short film by IBM Research. It was made by moving carbon monoxide molecules with a scanning tunneling microscope, a device that magnifies them 100 million times [read more: bit.ly/1Lw9toh]
2257
The Klein Bottle (in this version by Cliff Stoll) is a 3D representation of a four dimensional mathematical object with one side, no edges, and zero volume. Kind of like a Möbius strip with no edges [source, read more: buff.ly/38lhKQA]
2258
Megathura crenulata is a northeastern Pacific Ocean species of limpet. Its blood contains a hemocyanin that appears blue due to its copper content
[read more: buff.ly/3DDWzXg]
[video by Aron Sanchez-Baranda, sped up 3x: buff.ly/3kWkzh7]
2259
Swimming crabs (Portunids) have two sets of legs: the first set is used for walking on land, and the second set is used to help them swim underwater.
[read more: buff.ly/3BryMeG]
2260
Gluten—an elastic protein that has the ability to trap air, much like a balloon—is formed when two important proteins in wheat flour, glutenin and gliadin, bond together in the presence of water. This video provides a closer look at gluten [full video: buff.ly/3kWueUO]
2261
The Andean condor is the largest flying bird in the world by combined measurement of weight and wingspan. It has a maximum wingspan of 3.3 m and weight of 15 kg [read more: bit.ly/3cCzYyo] [source of the photo, ornithologist Jerry McGahan: bit.ly/3cCzYyo]
2262
One journey of the Sun and its planets around the center of our Milky Way galaxy is sometimes called a galactic year, which lasts approximately 225 to 250 million terrestrial years. The Solar System formed about 20 (galactic) years ago [read more: buff.ly/2HfSLBH]
2263
David S. Wright, the college physics professor made famous by a tweet and his teaching technique, built from his very first lesson in 1974 until his retirement in 2020 in attempt of making physics enjoyable & exciting
[read more: buff.ly/3BtdZHy]
2264
Spy Crab joins thousands of Christmas Island crabs as they march to the sea.
[Full video, John Downer Productions: buff.ly/3tQhpRs]
2265
The Royal Gorge is a canyon located west of Cañon City, Colorado. The bridge crosses the gorge 291 m above the Arkansas River and held the record of highest bridge in the world from 1929 until 2001
[📹 Marcos Parra: buff.ly/3ewIWl3]
2266
The boiling point of dichloromethane is slightly below body temperature: heat from a hand increases pressure in the bottom bulb pushing the green (dyed) liquid through the glass pipe to the top [source, read more: buff.ly/3B88ZXH]
2267
75 years ago #Today, a moth was found in the Panel F of the Harvard Mark II calculator: the first computer bug [read more: buff.ly/3tre2xW]
2268
When in the water, marine iguanas' blood circulation is reduced, with a heart rate of ~30 bpm vs 100 bpm on land, allowing them to better conserve their warmth [read more: buff.ly/3DTPx13-] [video by Kenzo Kiren: buff.ly/3HH06Xp-]
2269
The AquaDom in Berlin, Germany, is a 25 m (82 ft) tall cylindrical acrylic glass aquarium with built-in transparent elevator. It is located inside the Radisson Blu Hotel in the DomAquarée complex and it contains over 1,500 fish of 50 species [read more: buff.ly/2OK38mQ]
2270
Photographer Douglas Croft took this photo from a porthole near the waterline on another boat and captured this amazing perspective of a humpback whale breaching
[read more: buff.ly/3iEHjjI]
[author's site: douglascroftimages.com]
2271
In New Mexico, just east of Albuquerque, you can drive east on Route 66 and hit a rumble strip that plays "America the Beautiful" if you drive at the speed limit, 45 mph, turning the wheels of your car into a phonograph [read more: thesingingroad.com]
2272
Shakuntala Devi, the human computer who gave the 23rd root of a 201 digit number in 50 seconds. The answer was verified at the US Bureau of Standards by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a calculation buff.ly/3eoS0Xg
2273
This bonsai tree, currently housed in the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C, was planted in 1625, it's 397 years old and survived the bombing of Hiroshima, still growing today [read more: buff.ly/2H0sy6W]
2274
Tortoises and turtles can feel their shells. A mechanoreceptive innervation in the superficial layers of the shell is sensitive to transient stimuli [buff.ly/3ibuV9A, buff.ly/3m3kze4] [source, Badger Run Wild Rehab: buff.ly/3qSDOfn]
2275
During WWII on March 17th, 1944, this picture was taken showing B-25s flying past Mount Vesuvius as the volcano erupted destroying two villages, killing 26 people and displacing over 12,000. That was the last major eruption of the volcano to date [source: ow.ly/lNuf30ngS5a]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links