1676
How photographer Sunny Inaganti captured the perfect moment when a heron and a keelback snake found out who had the quickest reactions on a fish
[source, read more: buff.ly/2VEJREk ]
1677
When ships pass through Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean, the nearest land mass is 1677 (2,700 kms) miles away. This means that at certain times of the day (planes excluded), the nearest humans are on the International Space Station ~416 km (256 miles) up ow.ly/DcWB30nJ4yD
1678
The smell of rain is pure chemistry [read more: buff.ly/2yDTy7r]
1679
The neutron star PSR J1748-2446 rotates 716 times every second, so its equator moves at about 25% the speed of light. It is also 50 trillion times the density of lead and has a magnetic field a trillion times stronger than the Sun’s [read more: buff.ly/2C0ICEX]
1680
The central square is NOT moving.
Color-dependent motion illusions in stationary images: What causes illusory motion? The answer at this page by @AkiyoshiKitaoka
[source, read more: bit.ly/2r5OZUO]
1681
Pallas cats' fur is nearly twice as long on their belly/tail as on their top and sides. Standing on their tails helps keep the cats warm as they hunt on snow or frozen ground
[read more: buff.ly/3MMuySO]
[📹 Roman Paulov: buff.ly/3EZuH3w]
1682
Digital content creator Fabio Comparelli uses Deforum to make animations with successive images generated by the Stable Diffusion AI, from a video or image reference and text descriptions
This is Human Evolution
[read more: buff.ly/3Tqpwy8]
1683
Ruyi Bridge is a footbridge in Taizhou, Zhejiang China, made up of three bridges. It is a pedestrian bridge which was built to cross the Shenxianju Valley and it features a glass-bottomed walkway
[read more: buff.ly/3EZsRzM]
1684
The Blunt-headed Burrowing Frog (Glyphoglossus molossus), alo known as balloon frog, is found in south east Asia and lives in tropical seasonal forests, moist savanna, intermittent freshwater marshes
[read more: buff.ly/39aIrHi]
[📷 koshin0919: buff.ly/2KgkR3c]
1685
A fecal sac is a mucous membrane that surrounds the feces of some species of nestling birds. It allows parent birds to more easily remove fecal material from the nest.
[read more: buff.ly/3TGvtXs]
[📹 EBS Collection: buff.ly/3SyySXn]
1686
Located in the town of Caviahue, Argentina, Salto del Agrio is a 60 meter high waterfall, which drops to a small green pool surrounded by yellow and red basaltic rocks
[read more: buff.ly/3TyAiSg]
[📹 buff.ly/3Tm5Kn6]
1687
Custom built by Don Melara, Arturo, the R2D2 flying drone is complete with DJI GPS autopilot navigation system, articulating dome, LED jetpack lights, speaker box for sounds and even a ccd camera installed into his eye
[📹 HD: buff.ly/3Si4UXq]
1688
To create an accurate depiction of a black hole in the movie Interstellar, Kip Thorne wrote pages of theoretical equations to help the VFX team. The resulting effects provided Thorne with new insights, resulting in the publication of 3 scientific papers buff.ly/2KEvHdY
1689
Egyptians invented papyrus paper at least 5,000 years ago, revolutionizing the written word. Today, just one village still makes the paper and this Business Insider video documents the art and the industry of this ancient craft [full video: buff.ly/3tgtagH]
1690
These salmons cross a flooded road every year at the same location around five miles down the Skokomish River, in Washington State
[read more: buff.ly/3Jgc76N]
[📹 Terrence J Allison: buff.ly/3mwIWmf]
1691
This video from chemistry professor T. Ross Kelly asks us which ball gets to the bottom first. The answer is obviously provided by the practical test, but the experiment proves that, with gravity, the shortest path is not always the fastest
[full video: buff.ly/3uZuK7p]
1692
Most of the blue-streaked lory's general plumage is bright red. Against this intense red background, there are scattered electric blue feathers near the ears and on the nape of the neck, which is where the bird gets its name [read more: buff.ly/2L5gmUU]
1693
One of the most brilliant ideas developed to make the periodic table of the elements more friendly, was this periodic underground map of the elements
[source, by Mark Lorch: buff.ly/2Uuo3rr]
1694
Boiling coffee with a moka. This is a movie made with neutron images that shows the coffe making process. The movie was made by A. Kaestner at the cold neutron imaging beam line ICON at the Paul Scherrer Institute
[full video: buff.ly/2KDuOT4]
1695
Estimates state that 7% of all young gators are eaten by larger cannibal alligators. This is what happened in Florida, where a great egret narrowly escaped after an alligator was ambushed by a much larger one
[📹 Travis Akers: buff.ly/3MShM5a]
1696
Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at @NASAGoddard Space Flight Center present you a seamless zoom from the ground to space
[source: buff.ly/2Itaovn]
1697
Cookeina is a genus of cup fungi in the family Sarcoscyphaceae that has a deep, cup-shaped to funnel-shaped fruiting bodies, or apothecia
[read more: buff.ly/3MTGgve]
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1698
This is a detail of the right forearm of Michelangelo's Moses (c. 1513–1515). The blue circle highlights a small muscle called extensor digiti minimi, which only contracts when the little finger is lifted
[source, read more: buff.ly/3xsSG5L]
1699
Hippos can’t swim. So how do they move through water? They leverage their own buoyancy and bone density to charge through the water
[read more: theatln.tc/2qJpFn6]
[📹 realalishahraki: buff.ly/3O3lXL4]
1700
The Ubari Sand Sea is a vast area of towering sand dunes in the Fezzan region of south-western Libya. The place includes about twenty small salt lakes and beautiful palm-fringed oases that appear like anomalies in the harsh desert environment [read more: ow.ly/VrTG30nGTiv]
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