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Holoportation is the act of scanning in 3D to send a volumetric video anywhere in the world and in real time. Holoforge Interactive uses Azure cameras with depth sensors to give the feeling of real person presence [video: buff.ly/3JGX4nk]
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The Qiantang river's tidal bore is the world's largest and most powerful of its kind. Sometimes two tides meet together forming a shape like a cross, here filmed with a drone.
[read more: buff.ly/3Aa28NZ]
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Many animals, such as diving hawks or polar bears, use nictitating membranes to protect their eyes from water or snow blindness, but few are as spectacularly patterned as that of the red-eyed tree frog. Plus, they don't let those big eyes always covered! buff.ly/2GIaajD
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Pumice is a lightweight, bubble-rich rock that can float in water. It is produced when lava goes through rapid cooling & loss of gases. This clip was captured on a beach of Yoron island [read more: buff.ly/3Gi78kI-] [source: buff.ly/3E2Uqo2-]
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Do whales & dolphins play together? In recent years biologists recorded several cases of interspecies play, as this video filmed by Jaimen Hudson for BBC Earth seems to confirm [read more: buff.ly/3pyVNH8-] [video: buff.ly/3jvgeke-]
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A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex over a body of water connected to cumuliform clouds. More than one waterspout can occur in the same vicinity at the same time, as Raney Frederick filmed in 2020 in Louisiana [source: buff.ly/3jwhmnY-]
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The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) is an oceanic turtle that can measure up to 280 cm in length buff.ly/2UK2e8t [source of the gif, Pelagic Ventures Scuba:buff.ly/3nja485]
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26,000 years ago in the Czech Republic, one of our ice-age ancestors whose name is not even remotely remembered, selected a hunk of mammoth ivory and carved this enigmatic portrait of a woman - the oldest ever found [read more: ow.ly/L77G30n05qc]
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This short, slightly sped up clip, shows an impressively geometric bird's eye view of a synchronised dance sequence taken from Footlight Parade (1933), by director and musical choreographer Busby Berkeley [source and full video: buff.ly/2rJJJHq]
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Judith Love Cohen, the woman who worked on the Pioneer, Apollo, and Hubble missions, was author & publisher of books about women in STEM, ballet dancer, mother of engineer/scientist Neil Siegel and actor Jack Black [read more: buff.ly/2ZCHkt7]
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The Jastrow illusion typically involves two toy railway tracks (or similar shapes) where the lower one appears to be larger. However, both are identical in shape and size [read more: buff.ly/3m2tzyT]
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Eucharitid wasps are as much wonderful in their appearance as terrible as parasites [📷 Rodrigo Layug, read more: bit.ly/2vUca1r]
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The kind of car crash you will never be able to repeat [source: buff.ly/2u9Gp8P]
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The Heikegani crab has a shell pattern resembling a human face or samurai. Carl Sagan used these crabs as an example of unintentional artifical selection, proposing that the crabs survived better because fishermen admired them & threw them back in the sea buff.ly/2DLZWvG
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A Roman mosaic floor was recently discovered under a vineyard in northern Italy after decades of searching. Surveyors in the comune of Negrar di Valpolicella, north of Verona published images of the well-preserved tiles buried under metres of earth buff.ly/2yAf8PV
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This stunning slow-motion footage of the green dragontail butterfly was filmed by Kazuo Unno in northern Thailand. Lamproptera meges are a species of swallowtail butterfly that can be found throughout Asia [full video: buff.ly/2ThZAVZ]
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Stargazer fish's usual habit is to bury themselves in sand, and leap upwards to ambush prey that pass overhead. This shot was captured by diver Will Soo earlier this year in the bay of Blairgowrie Pier, Melbourne, Australia [read more: buff.ly/2MMQ5P6]
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In 1960, the National Film Board of Canada released a short documentary called 'Universe'. It was so good it was nominated for an Oscar in 1961 and also caught the eye of Stanley Kubrick, who used it as inspiration for '2001: A Space Odyssey' [video: buff.ly/2RFP8Lv]
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Albinism and melanism are genetic variations resulting from the mutation of different genes, causing two opposite pigmentation conditions buff.ly/3eiEb9A These are an albino and a melanistic alligators [video by Brian Barczyk: buff.ly/36xSHaD]
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This experiment shows why erosion occurs more slowly when soil is paired with leaf debris or plants vs simple dirt. All the bottles have the same soil [video + explanation by YT channel funsciencedemos: buff.ly/2MMFwvu]
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The observable universe is 93 billion light-years across (or ~8.8×10²³ kilometers). So far, no human has ventured farther than 1.3 light-seconds from Earth [read more: buff.ly/2tWEVP8 or more: buff.ly/3jxiffN] [animation by ESA: buff.ly/2FMxM9y]
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This is the Great Daylight Fireball that grazed the Earth's atmosphere exactly 50 years ago #Today. The atmospheric pass modified its orbit, but it is probably still in an Earth-crossing trajectory and passed close again in 1997 bit.ly/2aYwgzS
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The story of Arthur Fischer, the man who invented the plastic expanding wall plug, the synchronised flash and patented over 1100 inventions, overtaking Thomas Alva Edison, who held 1093 patents [read more: buff.ly/3Pdpsii, video: buff.ly/3JLk0Sy]
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Plants do actually move: we just don't live in the same time reference frame.
This 2-day time lapse shows the so called plants' nastic movements, mostly due to changes in turgor or changes in growth
[source, houseplantjournal: buff.ly/3HBFC1o]
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This is the moment paraglider Yanis Terzis captures a close-up aerial footage of one of the ancient pyramids of Egypt [source: buff.ly/3QjnPAQ]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links