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When humans lose weight, fat is eliminated and leaves the body. But not through the channels you probably think. Believe it or not 80% of the fat is exhaled through the lungs as carbon dioxide
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This is how a Fibonacci spiral is built
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This interactive periodic table from designer Keith Enevoldsen puts the elements in the context of their uses [source, ri-res and pdf: elements.wlonk.com]
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Lithops are Namibian and South African plants that have evolved to look like stones
[read more: bit.ly/2gLSyHy]
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The Super Zoom is a 2019 computer-generated animation by Pedro Machado that shows how everything in the universe is made of minuscule foundational elements
[full video: vimeo.com/355005914]
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This algorithm can reconstruct an audio by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in a video. In this experiment, intelligible speech was recovered from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass ow.ly/SIdV30n37Hg
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This photo of Kuala Lampur during a lightning storm is a stack of 32 shots taken over the course of 40 minutes by photographer Fendy Gan in May 2020
[source, more photos: buff.ly/3yA6Ljz]
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This is how a troop of Langur Monkeys show empathetic behaviour as they mourn what they think is a dead baby Langur, which is actually a robotic spy monkey, designed to film the primates. At the point they hug and console each other [full video: buff.ly/2mh8444]
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Bismuth crystals have a peculiar spiral, stair-stepped structure with silver-pink hue, often with an iridescent oxide tarnish showing many colors from yellow to blue. This is how one can obtain them.
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Believe it or not, this is the Casio AT-552 Janus, a touchscreen and gesture-controlled calculator watch. From 1984
[full video, by ChromeFD: buff.ly/2SqavAU]
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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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Wood planing is the art of shaving wood into very thin strips: a select group of experts in Japan compete to shave off the thinnest piece of wood possible. This video by xtol.ren shows how it's done
[source: buff.ly/3eoSUVJ]
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A gyroscope is probably one of the most fascinating physics toys and one of the most useful applications of conservation of angular momentum in several branches of science and technology [How it works, video by @tweetsauce: buff.ly/2JLMtZ4]
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Dinosaur tracks from 113 million years ago have been revealed in Texas after a severe drought dried up a river. The footprints - left by a single acrocanthosaurus - had not been seen for more than 20 years [read more: buff.ly/3Am9Ovj]
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In Budapest there's a fountain that looks like a book: every few seconds a sheet of water blasts forth from the book's spine, arcing from one side to the other, creating the illusion that an invisible force is turning the pages of this marble tome [video: buff.ly/3gc348s]
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Meanwhile, inside the box, Schrödinger's cat plans its revenge.
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#MotivationMonday
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In this video, a diver stumbles across a whale shark trapped in a commercial fishing line in a marine sanctuary that bans fishing, while the giant fish lies still while the rope is cut. The footage also shows the scale of a whale shark vs a human [video: buff.ly/32wdSGJ]
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The red-capped manakin's "moonwalk" to impress the ladies [source and full video: buff.ly/2uA52f9]
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Cheetahs don't roar, they meow.
The Felidae family is subdivided between "roaring cats" and "purring cats". The ability to roar is made possible by a special two-piece hyoid bone in the throat. Cheetahs only have a one-piece hyoid bone
[📹 meskal44: buff.ly/2VwrnGl]
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Crops under solar panels can be a win-win, and in dry places, photovoltaic shade can even reduce water use, suggests a recent study. Cherry tomatoes saw a 65% increase in CO₂ uptake, a 65% increase in water-use efficiency, and produced twice as much fruit buff.ly/2ZQCdW8
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'Killing Time' is a sculpture by artist Eric Mesplé: it combines the iconic use of ferrofluid and signature metalwork. As a viewer approaches the sculpture, sensors detect their distance from the sculpture increasing the upward draw of the ferrofluid ow.ly/PkU330n5PzC
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2D Artist Vaskange uses Endless Paper app and Apple Pencil, powered by Fractile, a vector rendering engine, creating illustrations that can be infinitely zoomed in
[Instagram: buff.ly/3RHAlKt]
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This video compares the size of tsunamis from the smallest wave to the biggest tsunami
[📹 HD, Red Side: buff.ly/3R8UrNA]
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Middle-class home comes to light in Pompeii. A cupboard that had stayed unopened for 2,000 years, was found complete with dishware, glass plates, ceramic bowls and vases. In the findings also ornaments and a bed [read more: buff.ly/3SteLL7]
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Defending a castle, the Escher way
[source, Mehdi Alibeygi: buff.ly/3IehyFc]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links