1076
Jaguars are excellent swimmers
[read more: buff.ly/3LmNkje]
[📹 buff.ly/3RQl8r5]
1077
This is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai like you’ve never seen it before.
Photographer André Larsen used an FPV racing drone to fly from the top of the Burj Khalifa building to the bottom
[📹 HD: buff.ly/3QXVPSF]
1078
This is a sturgeon from British Columbia: this kind of fish can reach a length of 6 meters (20 feet) and an age of 100 years.
[read more: buff.ly/3RU03fD]
[📹 Yves Bisson: buff.ly/3Scp5pT]
1079
Arkansas has one of the best quality quartz on Earth in the Hot Springs and Mount Ida area, where you can find several "dig-your-own" mines. This is how quartz is extracted.
[📹 Rocksforthespirit: buff.ly/3QS8czR]
1080
The Taipei 101 skyscraper has this damper with a mass of 728 tons & a diameter of 5.4 m. It helps stabilize the building in high winds & earthquakes.
This is how it worked during the M6.9 earthquake on September 18, 2022
[📹 HD: buff.ly/3Lmxsx5]
1081
Mosquitoes do not feed on blood as their daily source of food.
Male mosquitoes only eat flower nectar, while female eat flower nectar, switching to blood when reproductively mature and in need of proteins to develop eggs.
[full paper: buff.ly/3qQtROl]
1082
Crabeater seals share teeth adaptations including lobes and cusps useful for straining smaller prey items out of the water column [source, read more: buff.ly/2K3fZty]
1083
This is the world's largest air cannon, built by Laborky Cz in collaboration with the TV show "Wonders of Nature" in 2015. The cannon could shoot air (with smoke to make it visible) more than 100 m, breaking a giant wall of cardboard boxes [full video: buff.ly/2TpT0Pe]
1084
What happens if you roll a circle inside a circle that’s 4, 3 and 2 times as big? You get an astroid, a deltoid and... A straight line! [read more: bit.ly/2pkEhs1]
1085
We're accustomed to seeing smoke as something that floats in the air and it generally soars, but when the particles of burned substances have density which is higher than air's, the smoke can behave differently and drip down like water [source: buff.ly/30YIfY0]
1086
Esper Bionics develops products in the areas of orthopedics and neurology. Their myoelectric hand prosthesis uses Machine Learning approach to recognize situations [seen in action: buff.ly/30VJM0K] [explained: buff.ly/3r4hJGY]
1087
Alligators move on land by 2 forms of locomotion called "sprawl" (with the belly making contact with the ground) and "high walk" (up-on-four-limbs). This is a high walk used by a big one spotted in Central Florida in 2017 [source: buff.ly/3FWqcUF]
1088
Cleaning solar panels is crucial to maintain their performances. Skip cleaning means losing up to 17% – 25% of power generation due to the accumulation of dirt and dust
This is one way you clean solar panels
[read more: buff.ly/3DACW5x]
1089
To catch their prey, blue-footed boobies can dive deeper than 20 meters and for longer than 30 seconds, but their dives usually are rather shallow and short. They plunge into the water from as high as 100 meter. And totally synchronized [full video: buff.ly/2Jc3RF8]
1090
The green shield bug (Palomena prasina) lays its eggs in hexagonal batches of 25 to 30, and a single female will lay three to four batches. Each egg frequently shows marks on it and sometimes pareidolia makes the rest buff.ly/30JyF8I [photo: buff.ly/30Okv6m]
1091
This impressive underwater photo by Emma Holmann shows a couple of humpback whales with their calf as capture off the coast of Vava'u, Vava'u, Tonga [author's site and more photos: emmahphotography.com]
1092
Over the course of 3 days scientists pumped 10 tons of cement into an abandoned ant hill. After weeks of digging, the colony’s intricate & impressive structure is revealed. This one
[full video, from "Ants! Natures Secret Power": buff.ly/2ICATyB]
1093
This short video footage shows a Martin RB-57D bomber observing a nuclear test explosion during Operation Hardtack, in the Pacific Proving Grounds, on July 12, 1958
[source: buff.ly/2qVjPvM]
[clip: buff.ly/3eTLeZN]
1094
The Nazis branded Einstein's theory of relativity to be "Jewish physics" in the book "One Hundred Authors Against Einstein". When asked how he could win an argument against so many people Einstein replied that one fact was more powerful than 100 scientists ow.ly/uBpB50ApQDT
1095
Almost 100 years before selfies became a thing, this man was taking photos of himself and his friend with the best cameras available at the time [read more: ow.ly/eWvV30npSg8]
1096
Grand Lisboa is a 47-floor, 261-metre-tall hotel in Sé, Macau, China. Its peculiar shape lends itself to particularly evocative shots that mix old architecture and sci-fi like views, like in this photo by Paul Tsui buff.ly/2qR8YDi [source: buff.ly/30YAJw9]
1097
Concentration of sugar in plant's nectar increased by an average of 20% within minutes of sensing the sound waves of nearby bee wings through flower petals. This might be part of the reason many plants' flowers are bowl shaped, to better trap the sounds ow.ly/a98e30no0gt
1098
Japanese fireworks, particularly the bursting cored chrysanthemum fireworks, are said to be the most exquisite and beautiful in the world. They feature layers of differently colored explosives resulting in interesting effects buff.ly/2ZSOrQn [gif: buff.ly/3lipitL]
1099
The story of Dennis Ritchie, the man who invented C, co-created Unix, and is largely regarded as effectively influencing every software system we use on a daily basis. His death was largely ignored, overshadowed by Steve Jobs' death, one week before buff.ly/2pauBB2
1100
Since octopuses lack bones, they can contort their bodies to fit into tiny spaces. This makes them excellent escape artists, as confirmed by this one
[read more: buff.ly/3I7ICUs-]
[📹: buff.ly/3Scjpw7-]
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