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It looks like a wasp, but it's actually a mantis. It's the wasp mantidfly and it's an example of convergent evolution
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Have you ever wondered about how the night sky looked to Vincent Van Gogh when he painted ‘Starry Night'? This is an homage to the artist by Alex Ruiz, but also a somewhat plausible view of the light pollution free sky of 1889 near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence buff.ly/2Ky2oJW
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The three ancestral species in the genus Citrus associated with modern Citrus cultivars are the mandarin orange, pomelo, and citron. Almost all of the common commercially important citrus fruits are hybrids involving these three species with each other buff.ly/38nLgDE
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The spectacular secret treasures that have been growing beneath Mexico for 500,000 years: a cave with crystals up to 11 meters in lenght and a weight up to 55 tons
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The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is one of the heaviest known bony fishes in the world. Adults typically weigh between 247 and 1,000 kg (545–2,205 lb). Yet, Newly hatched sunfish larvae are only 2.5 mm (3⁄32 in) long and weigh less than one gram [read more: ow.ly/ibW050AGZbW]
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You've certainly already heard a singing wren. What you probably don't know is that its song is particularly pleasant to the your ear, because of striking similarities between its & human music
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[📹 by Lawrence Chatton]
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The cocoa powder contains fat with a hydrophobic quality and this is why when you touch it with a toothpick, the layer of milk seems to magically fall off leaving the cocoa powder underneath perfectly dry
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Azurite is a basic carbonate with the chemical formula Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂, a soft, deep-blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits
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[📹 Mineralcity/Tomasz Praszkier]
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This photo shows six unidentified scientists using ladders and a large chalk board to work out equations for satellite orbits at Systems Labs, California. The set of pictures was captured by J. R. Eyerman for Life Magazine in 1957
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This is machine learning training on landscapes. StyleGAN3 was released in October 2021 and is a generative adversarial network particurarly effective in generating photo-realistic faces
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[📹 Gene Kogan]
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A Sea Butterfly (Corolla spectabilis) gracefully swimming in the ocean
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[📹 Chris Gug: buff.ly/3FBTn0F]
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The Victoria crowned pigeon is now the most rarely occurring of the three crowned pigeon species in the wild and is evaluated as Near Threatened in the IUCN threatened species
[read more: buff.ly/3QgbflG]
[📹 nohumanz_: buff.ly/3Jw4BFC ]
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Ever wonder what a vinyl record looks like under an electron microscope? This is a 1000x magnification of a track
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[How the stereo LP groove works: buff.ly/2SclXz2]
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A mature Giant Sequoia can use 2000 liters of water every day during the summer. That's why snowy winters are fundamental: with adequate water they can live over 3,000 years [read more: buff.ly/3j1JY87] [📽️by Michael Block: buff.ly/2WEwNA8]
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The great eared nightjar (Lyncornis macrotis)
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[📷 Jenisha Aggarwal: buff.ly/3BxjkNM]
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A baby blue marlin in the larvae stage. The eye to body ratio is quite high. This marlin might weigh up to 800 kg or 1800 pounds at maturity [source, read more: buff.ly/2HNh2Me]
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To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
—Stephen Hawking
[📹 Specoolar, HD: buff.ly/3PoWgVu]
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3,000-year-old Egyptian statue head of a woman, New Kingdom, limestone, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (31713)
[source: buff.ly/3GNaU8b]
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The heights of the statues around the world
[📹 Metaball Studios: buff.ly/3JXCUEj]
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LEGO washing machine
[full video, The Brick Wall: buff.ly/3YUKNCT]
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This clip demonstrates you can record sounds with some cups. When the kid screams into the top paper cup, a little needle is etching a pattern into the glass. Then the groove & the needle play the sounds back
[📹 Dust-to-Digital: buff.ly/3oqSl0K]
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Normally, the Atacama Desert in Chile, receives less than 12 mm of rain a year. However in the years when rainfall is unusually high, between September and November, this can happen. It's called «desierto florido»
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The tectonic evolution of Earth in the last billion years
[full paper: buff.ly/3R8mLjo]
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This is a photo taken by DeviantARTist Fallout99 and it shows how refraction can paint a 30-meter loblolly pine forest in a drop of water
[source: bit.ly/2tSoVsI]
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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
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links