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See an entire apartment recreated one-to-one in VR
How Greg Madison turned every surface into interactive touchscreens for different apps
[video, HD: buff.ly/3QiHBMl]
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Caracal's ears each have more than 20 muscles that swivel around to detect sounds of their prey. The tufts may enhance sound going into their ears or be used to communicate with other caracals [read more: buff.ly/3pi4O7l] [clip by wildcatcentre: buff.ly/3pjuDny]
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This 2012 animation made by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, shows the evolution of the Moon: 4.5 billion years in two minutes [video: buff.ly/3G2EDXV]
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Theese engraved images of two giraffes, estimated to be some seven to nine thousand years old, have been found atop a 50-foot-high sandstone outcrop in the Sahara Desert of northeastern Niger in 1998 [read more: ow.ly/Lc5s30mVoQ9]
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What keeps ships from toppling over? This video explains why ships (especially big ones) stay upright and what can cause them to lean over [video: buff.ly/3AXFUvD] [source of the clip, IG isaac__ford: buff.ly/2AWJUQl]
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Humans aren’t the only animals that hum while they eat. This extensive study documents that gorillas compose happy songs they hum during meals
These are gorillas singing while eating
[full paper: buff.ly/2zgaIKZ]
[📹 buff.ly/3QiWtdQ]
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Photographer Axel Bocker took a glorious dragonfly close-up in Germany and earned a spot as a finalist in the 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards [source: buff.ly/3kYtApd]
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This hornets' nest found on a window in Roswell, Georgia, gave us the natural opportunity to see the nest's interior and its inner workings
[source, ViralHog: buff.ly/3P077EY]
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«While spacewalking I realized something: I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity»
— NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman
[source: buff.ly/3ilOqz0]
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Calculation of π, from rain falling on two wooden plate sensors, one circular and one square: the number of raindrops that landed on each plate during a storm was counted with an Arduino and π was calculated as the ratio [source & credits: buff.ly/2Dqy0gN]
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Illustator Jf Lemay [IG: lemay.jf] made this illusion which, thanks to the black background, is very difficult to break, but it's based on reverse perspective (like Patrick Hughes' artworks) [one seen side-on: buff.ly/36IsjMs] [source: buff.ly/3rvDznH]
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This is what 35,000 walrus look like along a shore [source, read more: bit.ly/1oF3MJd]
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Suction is a fundamental function for the diet of a whale shark, but this one is even able to suck fish out of hole in a fishing net [source, full video: buff.ly/2Iq14sy]
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Sloth's claws work the opposite way that human hand does. The default position is a tight strong grip, and sloths must exert effort to open them up. This is why sloths don't fall out of trees when they're asleep [read more: buff.ly/3zDNBsC]
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Have you ever seen a spiral-like aurora? This photo was taken by photographer Juan Carlos Casado in August 2016 over Thingvallavatn Lake in Iceland, a lake that partly fills a fault that divides Earth's large Eurasian and North American tectonic plates buff.ly/2c6yeNP
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Baby crocodiles sound like laser guns.
The chirps are made to communicate with their mother and the siblings in the same nest
[Brad Valle, Dragonwood Wildlife Conservancy: buff.ly/2otlKdo]
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Ground pangolins walk on their hind legs, occasionally using their forelegs and their tail for balance [read more: buff.ly/2X3sImh] [video: buff.ly/3C1Kg6y]
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Kallima genus' common name, oak leaf butterflies, is a reference to the lower surface of their wings, which is various shades of brown like a dead leaf. Extraordinary camouflage, outstanding beauty [source, Melissa Yung: buff.ly/2Xw1SbI-]
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Ctenophora, commonly known as comb jellies, are generally predators, but they can also be prey to the same phylum. Watch a comb jelly bump into another and eat it [read more: buff.ly/3pmkBlD]
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Designer Joe Doucet invented a flat wind turbine that can be incorporated into walls, rather than harnessing the wind with huge blades suspended on tall towers. The turbine wall is made up of a grid of square panes that spin along 25 axes [read more: buff.ly/3G4e3xW]
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This remarkable picture of Almaty, Kazakhstan, taken by Igors Jefimovs in January 2014, shows an impressive separation of a very thick smog and open air due to a very intense inversion buff.ly/2IvQSic [more about the inversion: buff.ly/2phGDoO]
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Over human history, out of about 30,000 edible plant species just 6–7,000 have been cultivated for food. Yet, today only 170 crops are grown on a commercially significant scale and just 3 crops (rice, wheat & maize) provide 40% of our daily calories intake ow.ly/kqaH50DtzD0
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Where did the chemical elements of the Solar System come from? This periodic table by Jennifer Johnson shows the origin of the elements in the Solar System [source, read more: buff.ly/2wkotaV]
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Cuttlefish and cephalopoda in general are authentic masters of disguise: they can change appearance and shape in seconds bit.ly/2vx5Npg [source of the gif: buff.ly/30uul2z]
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In Kenya, elephant excretions are used to make paper. Elephants poop up to 50 kg a day which can produce ~125 sheets of paper. This helps save the indigenous tree population and forest from being destroyed and creates a need for the 7000 elephants in Kenya buff.ly/2FRLnsn
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