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These incredible salt formations can be seen in the south, southwest, and central areas of Iran. The best examples are found in the Zagros mountains that run parallel to Iran’s coast on the Persian Gulf [read more: buff.ly/3ksLL4c]
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The motion of the hip joint.
The hip ligaments are the strongest in the human body. The Y-shaped and twisted iliofemoral ligament has a tensile strength of 350 kg
[read more: buff.ly/3TcHxQv]
[📹 Anatomy Standard: buff.ly/3TaJJrE]
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This diagram shows the major stars that are closest to Earth with their distance and stellar classification [source, read more: ow.ly/sEIW30n5tau]
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The red-lipped batfish is a weird looking fish that is best known for its bright, almost fluorescent, red lips and for its highly adapted fins, that allow it to walk on the ocean floor [read more: buff.ly/2pSA7Fn]
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This video by UniServeScienceVIDEO provides a visualization of the magnetic field lines that surround a small cylindrical bar magnet. Front view of a 3D Magnetic Field Demonstrator which is an Oil Filled Cube with a suspension of iron powder [full video: buff.ly/3bI9E5J]
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How a homemade levee saved an Arkansas home during a Mississippi flood in May 2011 [source: buff.ly/2XCJOtL]
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Graffiti artist Vile leaves his mark on the walls of occupied and abandoned buildings around Europe, using masterful techniques to create the illusion of depth in his painted interventions [more artworks: buff.ly/2AbWriS]
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The sunken hull of the City of Adelaide steam ship, burnt in 1912, has become an artificial island hosting a variety of plant and bird life approximately 300 metres (330 yd) off the shore of Cockle Bay, Australia [read more: buff.ly/2E8TaAj]
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There are two bars in Swizterland whose interior is themed along the Alien movies and modelled by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger [read more: buff.ly/2IiNu9v]
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This is how a Fibonacci spiral is built buff.ly/2ozEkeS [source of the gif: buff.ly/3mCJZBI]
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The frisbee wall ride trick shot is one of the best visualizations of the physics of the flying disc buff.ly/2GhTa7b [source of the gif, Dude Perfect: buff.ly/2VaAM3P]
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The Wärtsilä RT-flex96C is a two-stroke turbocharged low-speed diesel engine, designed for large container ships and it's the largest reciprocating engine in the world [read more: ow.ly/ALY350w6C3K]
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There's a cave in Romania that has been sealed off from the outside world for 5.5 million years and scientists have discovered dozens of unique lifeforms thriving in the poisonous gases and water [read more: buff.ly/2YhxUIU]
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The blue whale, at up to 29.9 metres (98 ft) in length and with a maximum recorded weight of 173 tons, it is the largest animal known to have ever existed. This picture, part of a footage captured in California, gives the scale of a blue whale ow.ly/gCRa30n7yjd
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The bacterial flagellar motor is the nature's version of the electric motor and can rotate at speeds in excess of 30,000 rpm [source: ow.ly/iM7a30n8fpg]
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The floor of the Florence Cathedral has some kind of amazing optical illusion built into it [read more: bit.ly/1svoOCh]
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It's okay to feel stupid, especially doing science.
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It's the only example of cooperative male-male displays ever discovered in nature. Surprising as it may sound, the Blue Manakin dominant male has a team of subordinate males who help him attract females buff.ly/3axr1mT [📹 Kenny Neal: buff.ly/3dCsSZM]
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The dynamic measured wake of a Tawny Owl. Tracked soap bubbles reveal the movement of the air behind a Tawny Owl showing wingtip and tail vortices [full paper: buff.ly/3GX22uA] [video: buff.ly/3k9Terx]
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Reddit user u/harpalss made this chart that shows the hours of daylight as a function of day of the year and latitude [source: buff.ly/33E1d5T-] [Equation to calculate the hours of daylight for a given day and latitude: buff.ly/3bNkqaJ-]
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WindPal is a practical solution for outdoor lovers to charge their devices. It’s a lightweight (less than 1 kg), portable wind turbine that generates power. And it can be assembled in less than one minute [video: buff.ly/2JaV6ff]
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Watch the seasons change in a 15 month time lapse made from 40,000 still images. During a stay in an Indiana cabin, while on location to work on a PBS documentary, videographer Samuel Orr captured the seasons and realized «A forest year» [full video: buff.ly/2ZXAwLr]
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«Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions , binding together people who never knew each other [...] Books [and writing] are proof that humans are capable of working magic»
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Season 1, Episode 11
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3D artist Jigar Patel (@jigpx) makes mesmerizing computer graphic animations. He created a series of brilliant clips called “Logo Factory”, and it's quite hard to stop looking at them
TikTok: tiktok.com/@jigpx
Instagram: instagram.com/jigpx/
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Blue Babe is the 36,000-year-old mummy of a male steppe bison which was discovered north of Fairbanks, Alaska, in July 1979. It was so well preserved that researchers removed a portion of its neck, stewed it, and dined on it to celebrate [read more: buff.ly/3dFrTwK]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links