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If you have never seen what a rocket launch looks like from a plane above the clouds & by night, this surreal view of InSight liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base captured by Leslie Radosevich in 2018 is your thing
[full video: buff.ly/2WCp0A7]
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Though the great argus is not as colorful as other pheasants, its display surely ranks among the most remarkable. The male dances before the female with his wings spread into enormous fans buff.ly/3iVzfKV [📹️ Mel Cutler: buff.ly/3enphhH]
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Some of the very first sea creatures to be able to walk didn't make the most of their new evolutionary advantage and stayed in the oceans. The little skate fish is one of the most primitive animals with a backbone showing a walking-like behavior buff.ly/2Mma85x
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The incredibly well-preserved, painted ceiling at Egypt’s Temple of Hathor is part of the main temple at the Dendera Complex which was built around 2250 BCE and is regarded as one of the best-preserved temple complexes in Egypt [read more: buff.ly/2HWU5Xi]
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Agate is a popular gemstone that’s a banded form of finely-grained quartz. One variation of the stone features tiny, abstract scenes that resemble mountains, rivers, and skies. This has earned them the nickname “landscape agates” [source, read more: ow.ly/oUoc50wO0xx]
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What are those red filaments in the sky? They are a rarely seen form of lightning confirmed only about 30 years ago: red sprites. This image was taken by Yuri Beletsky in 2021 from Las Campanas observatory in Chile [read more: buff.ly/31JcBOB]
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Waves reflecting underwater produce a caustic network: the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by the sea surface, or the projection of that envelope of rays on the sea floor [read more: bit.ly/2CiZupq] [clip by Nolan Omura]
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This picture by Sue Dougherty shows strings of tiny water droplets forming lines across a common loon’s face, visualizing the natural hydrophobic coating properties of its feathers
[source: buff.ly/3r5BdN8]
[read more: buff.ly/3yppOeU]
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Porcupines' quills take on various forms, depending on the species, but all are modified hairs coated with thick plates of keratin. This video by Mariette Landman shows what a formidable defense they constitute
[video, HD: buff.ly/3DKOe3y]
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This video captured by Jess Wandering in 2019 on the Alpstein massif in Switzerland, shows the difference in weather between two sides of a mountain due to the orographic effect buff.ly/2AYH6pJ [source: buff.ly/2OE2G6p] [full video: buff.ly/2ODPOx7]
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This deceiving grid tricks you into thinking there's a curved line somewhere, but you can't find it. The purposefully placed gray lines will induce your peripheral vision to interpolate curved lines
[image by Lesha Porche. Explanation: buff.ly/3b79VC8]
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This is a small motion test for Engineering Arts' Mesmer robot head. This head and neck has 22 custom servo actuators, but only 5 around the mouth which is not enough for really good lip sync (therefore, no talk) [video: buff.ly/3DKVPPq]
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Andreas Wannerstedt crafts unique 3D sculptures and mesmerizing looping animations. His synchronised animations have often been described as “oddly satisfying”, since the overall effect evokes a hypnotizing feeling [Instagram: buff.ly/2Bd8obg]
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Auto-targeting fire sprinkler systems are intelligent fire extinguishing equipments used in interior large spaces
[read more: buff.ly/2TzaR6R]
[📹: buff.ly/3fEcMVi]
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These oogpister and bombardier beetles have developed a deadly defence mechanism - a sharp spray of boiling acid from the rear
[full video, BBC Earth: buff.ly/3pHfc74]
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Tribolonotus gracilis, commonly known as the red-eyed crocodile skink is endemic to New Guinea, where it lives in a tropical rainforest habitat. It was first described by Nelly de Rooij in 1909 [read more: buff.ly/3RxaMeZ]
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"Spinning levers" (1936) is an educational documentary commissioned by Chevrolet Motor Company, explaining how a manual car transmission works. The mechanism making it possible to have different gears is a series of levers, levers that spin [full video: buff.ly/3frZPvT]
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The Nokia n91 released in 2006 was the first ever phone encompassing a 4 GB internal hard drive, allowing storage for 3,000 songs
[read more: buff.ly/3e0asYt]
[📹: buff.ly/3roPw0f]
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Prosthesis is called 'the anti-robot' because it has no automation and is 100% controlled by the person inside via the exoskeletal interface. This is why it is what is known as a mech, not a robot
{learn more, exosapientech: buff.ly/3SzAMrh]
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The interaction between electrical fields and liquids leads to a phenomenon defying intuition, called the floating water bridge
[full video, Elmar Fuchs: buff.ly/3CrxKzI]
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This rare footage of humpback whales creating ‘bubble nets’ to snare their prey has been captured by drones from high above and from POV footages, with ‘whale’s-eye view’ recorded by cameras attached to them with suction cups [full video: buff.ly/31qV4rJ]
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Forests on caffeine. A recent study found that after only two years, coffee pulp treated areas had 80% canopy cover compared to 20% in the control area. The canopy in the coffee pulp areas was also 4 times taller than that of the control area [read more: buff.ly/31sWzYP]
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This candle holder is made up of a clear tube that collects all the melted wax, and once the candle is fully melted, it automatically creates a new candle by forming a new candle from the melted wax [source, read more: ow.ly/rBEI30nwF42]
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The mesmerizing behavior of water drops impacting on the surface of granular particles [full video by Xiang Cheng, Runchen Zhao, Qianyun Zhang, Hendro Tjugito: buff.ly/2RxBLYA]
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Encyosaccus sexmaculatus is the only known species of the genus Encyosaccus. It is found in found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil and it's also known as orange tortoise spider. Its bright orange coloration suggests that it might be poisonous buff.ly/2RvlMup
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