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In order to avoid expensive irrigation systems, this farmer lifted the spraying pipes using hydrogen balloons
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Watch how fellow bees clean honey off another bee that fell into the honey extractor and was saved by the beekeeper, before it suffocates
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PowerMoveIt's solar containers aim at distributing solar power everywhere without a team of expert technicians. Their target is to prepare a mobile power station with only one trained person at any location in less than 30 minutes power-moveit.tech
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In 1972 the Polaroid Corporation commissioned the Eames Office to produce a film introducing the new and revolutionary SX-70 instant-photography camera developed by Edwin Land
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The beluga or European sturgeon is a huge and late-maturing fish that can live for up to 118 years: the largest accepted record in size is of a female taken in 1827 in the Volga estuary at 1,571 kg (3,463 lb) and 7.2 m (23.6 ft) [read more: buff.ly/2tU7o8d]
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The three physicists who, just after their PhDs, were tasked with developing a working design for a nuclear weapon using only unclassified information. The goal was to see if a country could develop a nuclear weapon without aid–they did it within 2.5 years buff.ly/3oYPs3I
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Check out the first flight of the CycloTech technology demonstrator. The Austrian company based its "CycloRotor" propulsion system on the Voith Schneider Propeller design, which has been used in maritime applications for decades [video, read more: buff.ly/3maCHFb]
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Shelf clouds announce the arrival of storms & when combined with cumulonimbus thunderheads, they can even look like giant alien motherships. Stephanie Weller captured this majestic example in Navarre Beach, Florida in 2020 [source: buff.ly/3nlKNKl]
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How materials engineer and Gjenge Makers founder Nzambi Matee is transforming plastic waste into bricks that are lighter and five to seven times stronger than concrete [video: buff.ly/3cZyyj3]
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The claws of an African lion are retractible and very sharp and can reach 38 mm of length (1 1/2 inches) [read more: bit.ly/2wouumV]
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In 1997, sculptor Danae Stratou, with the rest of the D.A.ST. Arteam, created the “Desert Breath,” a pair of interlocking logarithmic spirals in the middle of the Egyptian desert near the Red Sea on the Sahara’s eastern tip [read more: buff.ly/36rlaz3]
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Auto-targeting fire sprinkler systems are intelligent fire extinguishing equipments used in interior large spaces [more: buff.ly/2TzaR6R] [source of the gif: buff.ly/3bZMaXe]
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The Borromean rings: no two of the three rings are linked with each other, but nonetheless all three are linked [read more: buff.ly/2pp3sYE]
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In 1960, David Latimer put some compost, water, and plant seeds into a large glass jar and sealed it up. And it’s been growing like that ever since, thriving in its own, self-contained ecosystem, save for when Latimer opened the bottle to water it in 1972 buff.ly/2UcQJ8y
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Masahiko Kimura is a widely recognized bonsai master, author of this remarkable Hinoki forest planting, sold at the 38th annual Nippon Bonsai Taikan Exhibition in 2018 for ¥1,800,000 (~US$15,800) [clip: buff.ly/3tQHmOn] [more about the author: buff.ly/2Z9SKXf]
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A baby blue marlin in the larvae stage. The eye to body ratio is quite high. This marlin might weigh up to 800 kg or 1800 pounds at maturity [source, read more: buff.ly/2HNh2Me]
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The Jabuticaba is a tree native to Brazil whose flowers and its fruits grow directly from its trunk [read more: bit.ly/2gv3D2V]
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The air entering a peregrine falcon's nose during its high speed dives (320 km/h) would cause its lungs to explode, but bony tubercles in its nares safely regulate the passage of air. Engineers solved the air intake in jet engines in a similar way: buff.ly/3GbfyKJ
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The spectacular sight of mountain goats defying gravity on a vertical dam wall in Italy, and all because they have a craving for some of Earth's elements essential to life [full video by BBC with @ProfBrianCox: buff.ly/3sHnxry]
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This jaguar demonstrated the meaning of the term power, dragging this 8 ft long, armour plated, 74 toothed, chunk of contracting muscle out of the water. Jaguars are estimated to have the 5th strongest bite in the entire animal kingdom [source: buff.ly/2ubjlH4]
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What do you see?
This is Wonder, a meditative moving sculpture whose aim is to show how everything is interconnected created by designer & inventor @tomlawton.
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Born #Today in 1908, Mary G. Ross was the first known Native American female engineer, and the first female engineer in the history of Lockheed, remembered for her work on aerospace design and design concepts for interplanetary space travel [read more: buff.ly/2OX5Gtd]
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Super agile and balanced, Direct Drive's Diablo is the world first wheeled-leg transformable robot powered by 6 direct-drive motors. An open development platform for custom controls & DIY [read more: diablo.directdrive.com]
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Can you believe such a big amount of lava can flow this fast? This iconic video captured by photographer Ken Boyer shows Kilauea's fissure 8 on June 16, 2018. No, it has not been sped up and this is the most stunning detail
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Do spiders dream? A new study suggests they do.
These jumping spiders rapidly move their eyes and twitch during rest, suggesting they have visual dreams, never before observed in arachnids
[read more: buff.ly/3Q625s2]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links