976
The Guoliang Tunnel (Chinese: 郭亮洞) is carved along the side of and through a mountain in China. The tunnel links the village of Guoliang to the outside through the Taihang Mountains
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[source of the gif: buff.ly/3LaZWd1]
977
Stare at the central cross for 15-20 seconds
3 distinct illusions take place:
- Troxler fading (the pink discs disappear)
- a green disc is now flying around the circle by itself
- afterimage
[read more: buff.ly/3xmkOrY]
978
The 'flight' of the mobula ray is made to attract a mate: pure beauty at the origins of life [source, full video, BBC: buff.ly/2of5UlR]
979
John Derting's clips routinely take the viewer where few dare to explore, across rugged glaciers, through half-frozen rivers, and into dangerously beautiful ice caves
[read more: buff.ly/3RLI5Mo-]
[IG: buff.ly/32pWVTJ]
980
Watch people play ‘Pong’ on a rock wall with Augmented Climbing
[source: ow.ly/E6Ug50Am51h]
[read more: valomotion.com]
981
While young penguins are busy learning swimming, a Giant petrel appears and attacks with its beak a young where the skull is less muscular and less fat. But a father is not going to let that happen [full video, National Geographic: buff.ly/3xoAg5E-]
982
The spinner dolphin is famous for its acrobatic displays in which it rotates around its longitudinal axis as it leaps through the air. It can make up to seven spins in one leap
[read more: buff.ly/2MlizQi]
983
Lobsters' color comes from astaxanthin, which binds to other proteins. Depending on those bonds, the shell gets a color. Blue lobster are extremely rare, with in about 100 million
[read more: buff.ly/3U7Vsb3]
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984
Saint-Malo, Brittany, has the highest tides in Europe, with water that can rise 13 m over. These houses (here seen during storm Ciara), are built as a sea wall and 4 layer glass on the front windows
[full video, HD, Easy Ride: buff.ly/3ypBcrw]
985
What's the difference between an alligator (left) and a crocodile (right)?
The most visible one is alligators have a U-spaced rounded snout that is wide and short, whereas crocodiles have a longer pointed, V-shaped snout
[read more: buff.ly/3E63MiR]
986
It’s so much a part of our everyday lives that we don’t often think about vitamin C. This image of Vitamin C was taken by Spike Walker using a Zeiss Ultraphot lll microscope to reveal the strange structures that make up this scurvy-fighting substance buff.ly/2qIlgP2
987
This famous time-lapse video shows a storm captured by Geoff Green over West Australia in August 2018
[source, full video: buff.ly/2o6M21J]
988
A famous physics puzzle: why does the hourglass not start rising right away?
[source: buff.ly/2mSOj3E]
If you want to know the answer, you may visit this site, that has some different plausible answers: buff.ly/2EOKxeA
989
The American Meteor Society has received 793 reports about a very bright fireball spotted over northern England and Scotland on Setpember 14, 2022
[more info + videos: buff.ly/3qGiEjg]
990
In the last couple of years, color detecting sensors have finally become cheap enough that we’re starting to see a whole host of interesting gadgets. Designed by PEGA Design & Engineering, the Colorup is a big squeezable light bulb that can snatch up color buff.ly/2HAgNYd
991
The story of "water man" Patrick Mwalua, the man who has been buying and transporting water for long distances to Tsavo West National Park to quench wild animals' thirst
[read more: buff.ly/3QCwmON]
992
In 2015, archaeologists in Scotland uncovered a 2000 year-old bolt that was fired from the so called Roman Manubalista, capable of launching a 17-cm, 120 km/h armor-piercing projectile with terrifying accuracy. This is a reconstruction [full video: buff.ly/318KCea]
993
Honda's Riding Assist technology, leverages robotics technology to create a self-balancing motorcycle
[read more: buff.ly/30YyJan-]
[source, Ali Naqvi: buff.ly/3nQ0n2m-]
994
This beautiful bird, a male Cabot's tragopan, lives in the hilly evergreen forests of China, where it forages for leaves, fruit, seeds and insects
[read more: buff.ly/2IxQQ96]
[📹 buff.ly/3LiuCJp]
995
Reindeer cyclones are real, and you definitely don't want to get caught in one
[📹️PBS Nature/Maramedia. Read more: buff.ly/2XdQWum-]
996
The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, often called The Boneyard, is a USAF aircraft and missile storage in Tucson, Arizona and is the largest aircraft storage and preservation facility in the world
[read more: buff.ly/3BbIwIs]
997
Dinosaurs were big and some prehistoric animals were huge, but the blue whale is not only the largest animal in existence, it is also the largest known animal to have ever existed
[read more: buff.ly/2qPcZbf]
[source of the image and credits: buff.ly/2HAG2K2]
998
Jewel scarab beetles
They have an exoskeleton that contains intricate nano-structures that are responsible for their appearance
[read more: buff.ly/3BfQpwN]
[📹 Krzysztof Pach: buff.ly/3RZd736]
999
A considerable portion of an owl body volume is made up by feathers: as a consequence, the length of their legs is never correctly estimated [read more: buff.ly/2vwNukL]
1000
«From grandma to young woman». The effects of the g-forces on a human are mostly visible here in the facial muscles and in the temporary change of aspect, but they actually do much more [read more: buff.ly/2ZwZrXo] [source: buff.ly/3cUItFo]
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