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Aydin Büyüktas is a photographer and digital artist: he creates warped landscapes using drone photography and his works appear to curve infinitely upward and outward without a visible horizon evoking a surreal and disorienting sensation [read more: buff.ly/2HbVWrN]
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Even at an early age baby penguins knows how to form a circle of defense when a predator attacks. One even knows to make himself big and spread his wings. Another bigger penguin comes and saves them, but the courage has been tangible [full video: ow.ly/jcHI30n9XJE]
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Russia and the United States are only 2 miles apart, and during the winter, you can still walk between the two nations. There have been Chinese proposals to build highways and high-speed rail connecting Asia and North America the Bering Strait buff.ly/30c07zy
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When you think of a typewriter, you might have in mind a very simple, standard model, but when it comes to a Japanese machine, the number of characters makes it completely different. This MAC-M45 has 2200 characters [full video: buff.ly/3aWmNbM]
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The game Entombed was released in 1982 for the Atari 2600. It contains a table of values that make solvable the generated mazes. To this day, researchers do not know how these values were generated and cannot produce an algorithm to generate them buff.ly/3hmamXP
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Baa Atoll, an administrative division of the Maldives, consists of 75 islands of which 13 are inhabited with a population of over 11,000 people. The remaining islands are uninhabited [read more: buff.ly/2H88XSX]
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In 2015 researchers recorded the echolocation sounds used by a dolphin when it came face to face with a number of objects, reconstructing a series of 2-D and 3-D images that show how dolphins 'see' objects underwater. This is how they see a human ow.ly/aQ2s30naPDt
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A study found honeybee venom destroyed 2 types of hard to treat breast cancer cells. Melittin on its own reduced cancer cell growth & can be produced synthetically. One venom concentration killed cancer cells within 1 hour with minimal harm to other cells buff.ly/2YU9IcD
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While flying from Munich to Singapore in September 2019, an industrious passenger, Hung-Hsi Chang, took images of a passing lightning storm and caught something unexpected: this gigantic jet lightning [source, HD: buff.ly/2NmjQ9X]
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Several waves of people occupied the cave where these paintings appear: the silhouettes of the hands were created in a period between 13,000 to 9,000 years ago, using bone-made pipes for spraying the paint on the wall. We've been rarely alone buff.ly/2IDwf2y
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Gosses Bluff in central Australia is thought to have been formed by the impact of an asteroid or comet approximately 142.5 ± 0.8 million years ago, in the earliest Cretaceous [read more: buff.ly/2EjPrQk]
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A powerful storm brought sub-zero temperatures to the northern region of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia in February 2021. The rare occurrence was captured by TikTok user x509o with this video of snow underneath the sand [full video: buff.ly/3uIpbed] [user: buff.ly/3sJdEte]
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An osprey can take live fish weighing up to 2 - 2.8 kg and carry it for long distances. This footage filmed by Ashley White in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in 2020 shows one transporting a Spanish Mackerel
[source, read more: buff.ly/3czOlHG]
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Living in what is now northeastern North America and Scotland around 315 to 299 million years ago, Arthropleura reached 2.4 meters in length and was the largest known land invertebrates of all time [read more: buff.ly/2qdsp8Q] [photos: buff.ly/300odvJ]
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The Stoos Bahn is the steepest funicular railway in the world and is paraded as a masterpiece of Swiss engineering: it hauls passengers from the valley floor up a near-vertical 110% gradient [full video by National Geographic: buff.ly/3kwCcnA]
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As this remarkable picture by photographer Hemant Kumar shows, flying fox young bats ride clinging to their mother's breast with their mouth, even though some young are two-thirds the weight of their mothers & quite capable of flying on their own [source: buff.ly/300N3vb]
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Have you ever seen a comet from space? This time-lapse video shows comet NEOWISE as viewed from the International Space Station (ISS) on July 5, 2020 made from 340 photos as the ISS passed over Uzbekistan and Central Asia [source, NASA: buff.ly/3n9KDqq]
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IBM's ThinkPad 701c's unique butterfly keyboard rocked the laptop world when it debuted in 1995. This video shows it in action [read more: buff.ly/2EhUJfm]
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The remains of what could be the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Europe are being excavated in a Portuguese back garden: very likely a sauropod, a herbivorous dinosaur 12 meters tall and 25 meters long that roamed the Earth around 150 million years ago buff.ly/3ARjobi
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About 58 species of cuckoos are brood parasites. They lay eggs in the nest of other birds, hatching earlier than the host eggs, so the cuckoo chicks grow faster and evict the host's eggs and/or young
[📹 full video, Artur Homan: buff.ly/357GexV]
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This is how an echidna, a mammal, hatches from an egg. In this 1974 CSIRO clip, we also get to see how milk can be seen in its tiny, transparent stomach after it nurses
[full video: buff.ly/31AxfOU]
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There's a curious relationship between ravens and wolves. Common ravens have been observed calling wolves to the site of dead animals so that the wolves open the carcass, leaving the scraps more accessible to the birds buff.ly/31FNCtR [video: buff.ly/2UzUwwJ]
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Kayleigh Grant was collecting rubbish from the sea, roughly two miles off the Hawaiian shore when she found a tiny octopus using plastic for a home
[full video + read more: buff.ly/3PVNX3T]
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Deniz Sağdıç turns what we consider waste into human portraits, drawing attention to pollution and showing that even the simplest materials can be used to produce an artwork, creating sustainable art
Instagram: buff.ly/3ArRXmI
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The white raven that was thought to be a legend but inhabits a coastal segment of British Columbia, Canada. These ravens are not albino, but leucistic, or lacking any of several different types of pigment (not simply melanin) buff.ly/2IpD6N2 | buff.ly/2EgBxyB
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