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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]
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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]
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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]
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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-]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Spy Crab joins thousands of Christmas Island crabs as they march to the sea.
[Full video, John Downer Productions: buff.ly/3tQhpRs]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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
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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]
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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]
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A bridge girder machine drives the girder onto the previously placed one, slowly extends its arms to the next support platform, pushes the girder towards the front of the machine and then lowers it into place
[📹: buff.ly/3TZNAZ3]
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Rabbits can swim
Some breeds adapted to live in wet environments, and regularly swim in their day-to-day lives
[read more: buff.ly/3gNq0N5]
[source: buff.ly/3BnSGFE]
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In 1881, the Harvard Observatory director was frustrated with his staff, and would say "My Scottish maid could do better!" He hired his Scottish maid. Williamina Fleming classified tens of thousands of stars, discovered white dwarfs & the Horsehead nebula buff.ly/2mFX8vw
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Diver Kendall Roberg built a rig with marker caps attached to his GoPro to show how colors change as you go deeper underwater, because water selectively scatters and absorbs certain wavelengths of visible light [video: buff.ly/2SdfUq5] [more: buff.ly/2n7iODf]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links