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Over the course of 3 days scientists pumped 10 tons of cement into an abandoned ant hill. After weeks of digging, the colony’s intricate & impressive structure is revealed. This one
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Petr Spatina plays glasses. When he was young, he learned to play the accordion and the piano before embarking on learning a quite unusual musical instrument, “the glass harp”
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A vortex ring is the phenomenon where a quantity of a fluid in a toroid shape, travels through a fluid, while spinning like a circular bracelet that is being rolled off of a person’s arm. And it can also interact with objects [source of the gif: buff.ly/33xVHRT]
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Dubbed Los Caracoles (snails), this is a portion of the CH-60, also called Ruta 60. It connects Santiago to Chile to Argentina through the Andes Cordillera. Its distinctive trait is this set of 29 hairpin turns
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«Le Petit Chef» restaurants playfully guide diners through an interactive experience where the story behind each course is brought to life through cutting edge projection-mapping created by the world-famous artists of Skullmapping lepetitchef.com
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Can you see the snake?
Leanne Cooke photographed a deadly venomous Stephen's Banded snake in Maitland, Australia and this is the shot.
[source: buff.ly/3TLo0H2]
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The radula is an anatomical structure that is used by mollusks for feeding, sometimes compared to a tongue
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It never gets old. When a helicopter's propeller is perfectly synced with the camera frame rate, the result is always astounding
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The motion of the hip joint.
The hip ligaments are the strongest in the human body. The Y-shaped and twisted iliofemoral ligament has a tensile strength of 350 kg
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Simas Snežko built a mechanical model of a car out of wood. And it's not just some pistons moving up and down in a drilled-out block of wood—the model is a V8 with a working transmission, a differential and a clutch
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Giant sequoia specimens are the most massive individual trees in the world. Record trees have been measured at 94.8 m tall & 9 m in diameter. Outdoor adventure photographer Quin Schrock captured the scale vs a human
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A brilliant painting technique that uses forced perspective to make the painting itself disappear
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Burn an element and it will show its color signature. Each element has an exactly defined line emission spectrum, we are able to identify them by the color of flame they produce
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This is a 200 kilogram preserved blue whale heart
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A vertical wind tunnel (VWT) is a wind tunnel that moves air up in a vertical column. Its vertical orientation enables gravity to be countered by drag instead of lift, as experienced by a skydiver at terminal velocity.
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Many creatures wear disguises in order to keep safe from predators, but there are some that dress to kill. Orchid mantises are one of nature’s most awesome examples of aggressive mimicry [video: buff.ly/3lYRHG7-]
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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
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On Mocha Island, Chile, natural gas from underwater vents and seeps can originate phenomena like this one
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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
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This video is a majestic visualization of the toroidal structure and flow of a smoke ring
[detailed scheme: buff.ly/3EBZhzQ]
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[📹 Titus Edwards: buff.ly/3elWaBB]
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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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A crinkle crankle wall is an unusual type of garden wall built in a serpentine shape typically found in the UK. It economizes on bricks because it can be made just one brick thin. If a wall this thin was made in a straight line, it would easily topple over ow.ly/4LY850zYx9T
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54 years ago #Today, Apollo 8 was launched: the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit, reach the Moon, orbit it, and safely return go.nasa.gov/2h2mWLn
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Believe it or not, in the years 1950-1951, the A. C. Gilbert Company distributed the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, a toy kit allowing kids to make nuclear reactions at home using actual radioactive material. It was taken off the shelves in 1951
[more: bit.ly/2BTzsZW]
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Located in Lishui, China, this water slide is 2723.08 m (8,933 ft 11 in) long with waterway winding its way down the side of Puhuasi Mountain and it's the record-breaking World [read more: buff.ly/3RBE6So-] twitter.com/AmazingPosts_/…
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links