1401
This periodic table shows you the physical state of each element at a given temperature (plus properties, orbitals, isotopes and more) [visit: ow.ly/v70v30nyIpX]
1402
Crinoids are passive suspension feeders, filtering plankton and small particles of detritus from the sea water flowing past them with their feather-like arms
[read more: buff.ly/2xnWr1a-]
[📹 Marcelo Johan Ogata: buff.ly/3GwS6qo-]
1403
When a star strays too close to a black hole, intense tides break it apart into a stream of gas. The tail of the stream escapes the system, while the rest of it swings back around, surrounding the black hole with a disk of debris [source, NASA: buff.ly/2m0ysiY]
1404
Following simple programmed rules, these autonomous robots assembled at Harvard University, arrange themselves into vast, complex shapes
[source, read more: buff.ly/2HVLA2Y]
1405
"Persistence of vision display" or POV display are LED devices that compose images by displaying one spatial portion at a time in rapid succession. One example are Hologram Fans
[read more: buff.ly/3ykp0cd]
[📹US Gadgets: buff.ly/3fLsGgE]
1406
How a canoe can move without paddles? What can look like a violation of momentum conservation, actually tells us how the hull drag can be exploited as an inverted reaction [read more: buff.ly/2S43TIj] [source, full video, Paddle & Portage Canoes: buff.ly/35Q901T]
1407
In the fall, changes in the length of daylight & temperature cause the chlorophyll to break down: the green color disappears & the yellow to orange colors become visible
[read more: buff.ly/3Mdl7vE]
[📹 Justin McFarland: buff.ly/2RsCuLU]
1408
Plasma tornadoes on the Sun can reach a height of 125,000 miles and rotation speeds up to 186,000 miles per hour [read more: buff.ly/2KBvER3]
1409
How player ChrisDaCow created a universe inside Minecraft with a black hole, galaxies, and pillars of creation included
[full video: buff.ly/3MhbQ5B]
1410
The Antonov An-70 is a medium and long-range four-engine transport aircraft designed in the 1990s. One of the special features of this aircraft is its propulsion with contra-rotating propellers, the first group comprising 8 blades, the second 6 [source: buff.ly/3EPxedB]
1411
In this 1843 letter to Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace proposes a calculation that "may be worked out by the engine without having been worked out by human". It is the first time that the principle of the computer program had been set out in writing buff.ly/3Eh0Tz4
1412
What Intel put on for its 50th anniversary back in 2018 is still impressive: the drone team broke a world record flying thousands of Shooting Star™ drones to create one of the biggest and brightest synchronized drone light show on Earth [source: buff.ly/2vJNATL]
1413
VeinViewer allows physicians to see beneath a patients skin & helps take some of the pain away when getting a needle by projecting near-infrared light that's absorbed by the blood and rejected by the surrounding tissue [read more: buff.ly/3EmUum6]
1414
‘Liquindi‘ is a type of Pygmy music played by Baka Forest People in Central Africa. They perform the pre-hunt song in the dawn hours to attract animals using the river as a drum [source and full video: buff.ly/2MUWOnO]
1415
A mechanical demonstration of the chaos theory with the chaotic magnetic pendulum
[read more: buff.ly/2S96AZb]
[📹 wesphysdemo: buff.ly/2t1ouxL]
1416
This clip captured by Epic Lava on Kilauea volcano, shows lava breaking out from a lava tube, a natural conduit passing beneath the hardened surface
[read more: buff.ly/3s6B12G]
[source, Epic Lava: buff.ly/3swXc0c]
1417
The city is alive: this site allows you to watch the dynamics of Manhattan's population, hour-by-hour: manpopex.us
1418
This is not a photo of Antarctica from space, but it's even better: it's a composite from several different NASA Earth-observing satellites, which created a set of information what wouldn't be visible with a simple picture
[read more: ow.ly/7nz650EdAvj]
1419
This sculpture of Franz Kafka's head created by artist David Černý in Prague weighs 45 tons and it's fully self-rotating
[source, full video: buff.ly/1USJQ7l]
1420
What does a baby rhino sound like? Certainly not anything like we thought they would. If we had to describe their sound, it would probably be a cross between dolphins and when you pinch the neck of a balloon to let the air out [full video by DoctorDuni: buff.ly/2p2JB4t]
1421
A unique chamber filled with cut feathers provides the viewing material for this side-lit precision kaleidoscope by Carol Verde-Paretti
[source, read more: buff.ly/3rxtwAx]
1422
The heart of an aircraft's artificial horizon is a gyroscope mounted in a double gimbal, which allows the aircraft to pitch and roll as the gyro stays vertically upright
[read more: buff.ly/3RCVCol]
[📹 aceaviations: buff.ly/3e7gUNv]
1423
Water plantain (alisma gramineum) has tiny purple-tinted white flowers that are cleistogamous, meaning that they stay closed and self-pollinate when underwater and open when out
[read more: buff.ly/3EiOCKu]
1424
Sandstorm flmed in the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai province in July 2022
[fact check, read more: buff.ly/3CdSWIc]
1425
Bergs Fairytale Garden (@Bergs_fairytale) took creative gardening literally creating this nearly perfect color palette with progressively hued eggs. «Eggs can be a everyday thing, but it can also be art» [source + IG: buff.ly/33snGri]
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