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This is what eye rubbing looks like in MRI.
keratoconus (and possibly other ocular conditions) is caused by excessive eye rubbing
[full video, Damien Gatinel: buff.ly/31xl0Yk]
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Know Barista copies the movements and skills of great latte artists to make a cup of latte art coffee, thanks to an intelligent learning system with integrated vision-guided robotic arms, motion control algorithms & a perception and decision-making system: tech-know.com/inbot-barista/
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Watch Delta Robot (right) and compact LR Mate 200iD robot (left) sort and move sets of four batteries with mesmerizing, seemingly-endless rhythm
[source: buff.ly/2ZVYkig]
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Karakuri puppets are traditional Japanese mechanized automate wonders made originally from the 17th and up to 19th century. The word Karakuri stands for “trick” or “mechanisms” in Japanese
[source, HD: buff.ly/3du7ISm]
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This augmented reality environment is made from a simple PDF file, projecting a 2D image that looks real and helps create a floor plan for interior design and structures
[read more: buff.ly/3PwQAIX]
[📹 Adam Cook: buff.ly/3QzWRVM]
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PAPILIO is a street lamp with an insect-friendly light spectrum, that tackles light pollution while at the same time generating energy by using an integrated wind rotor [read more: buff.ly/3PzggET]
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Germanium (and germanium oxide) are opaque in visible light, but transparent in infrared. This clip demonstrate this property of the element
[read more: buff.ly/3T2SILu]
[📹 Cody's Lab: buff.ly/3T4mKPk]
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Cats have always fascinated humanity and in ancient Egypt they were venerated as gods. This ancient Egyptian gold ring with carnelian gemstone carved into a cat is from the Third Intermediate Period, 1070 - 1712 BCE (The British Museum) [read more: buff.ly/3dmBq9V]
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Subatomic particles have a property called spin, an intrinsic form of angular momentum. Some particles, like the electrons, have spin = 1/2 and must rotate twice to get to the original configuration. This video by Lloyd Watts provide a good analogy: buff.ly/3BBgvIt
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Ocean sponges are multi-cellular animals that don’t walk or swim. They eat by filter-feeding. How powerful are their filters? With the help of non-toxic fluorescein dye, we can see how highly effective ocean sponges are as filters of ocean water [source: buff.ly/2HTzuoQ]
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The golden eagle is considered one of the most powerful predators. Yet, in this video filmed by Terra Mater & Omar Penker on the European Alps, a chamois shows how, seriously risking its own life, it finally saves it [full story: buff.ly/3c2IN8n]
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How do you get a 3,500 ton littoral combat ship from the shipyard into the water without a set of well-coordinated supercranes or help from a friendly giant? Sliding it sideways [LCS 7 Detroit side launch into Wisconsin’s Menominee River on Oct. 18, 2014: buff.ly/2A0epoa]
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Watch how the Australian Bat Clinic cares for orphaned baby bats: feeding, grooming, attending to their medical needs, and making them feel warm and safe by wrapping them like a baby bat burrito [full video: buff.ly/2vuwTLq]
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Comparison of the height of the most known trees, from the apple to the tallest tree in the world
[full video, HD, Red Side: buff.ly/3dHRLrO]
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The surge wrasse, Thalassoma purpureum, is a species of wrasse native to the southeast Atlantic Ocean through the Indian and Pacific Oceans and it's one of the most beautiful fish in the world [source, read more: buff.ly/2G3qQoI]
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This isn’t a painting, it’s an unedited photograph. Tinted orange by the morning sun, a soaring dune is the backdrop for the hulks of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Park [source, read more: buff.ly/2G9ef3q]
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How Oklahoma farmer Carl Barnes uncovered a brilliant strain of corn now called Glass Gem Corn [read more: bit.ly/2eVoqqR]
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Cognitive processes require more connections among neurons. They take place through dendrites extending from the neurons' bodies
[📹 Membrane-anchored GFP of rat hippocampal neurons captured in 120-hour time-lapse imaging: buff.ly/3dKxSRf]
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Following Mars Curiosity. An awesome video composed in Blender from 41 Navcam images by Rob Haarsma [full video: bit.ly/1pDQ00n]
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A number of polyhedral dice made in various materials have survived from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, usually from ancient Egypt. This is actually from Egypt and dates back to the 2nd century B.C. – 4th century A.D. [read more: ow.ly/e9wS30n5aH4]
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The pink colour of Lake Hillier, Western Australia is believed to be due to the presence of the organism, Dunaliella salina, an unicellular micro-algae that contains red/pink pigment
[📹, HD, Jaimen Hudson: buff.ly/3ChPvSA]
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The Nossa Senhora da Graça Fort is an 18th century fort in the village of Alcáçova, Portugal, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its prominent position atop Monte da Graça made it an important stronghold during several wars [source, Maxar Technologies: buff.ly/3jTD45d]
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To pay tribute to all the enslaved people buried in cemeteries with no name, artist Craig Walsh put a face in the trees to honor their souls in an installation in Charlotte, North Carolina, called "Monuments" [read more: buff.ly/3ChbM2N]
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'Killing Time' is a sculpture by artist Eric Mesplé: it combines the iconic use of ferrofluid and signature metalwork. As a viewer approaches the sculpture, sensors detect their distance from the sculpture increasing the upward draw of the ferrofluid ow.ly/PkU330n5PzC
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Henningsvær is a fishing village located on several small islands off the southern coast of Austvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago in Norway. Its stadium has probably the world's most captivating position [read more: buff.ly/2I7KfS8]
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