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In Shimabara, Japan the street's gutters are so clean to be home to hundreds of swimming koi fish
The unusual habitat is a product of the 1792 Unzen tsunami that created fresh water springs
[read more: buff.ly/37ZdDqQ]
[📹buff.ly/3iM1ccl]
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Every Veterans Day, November 11 at exactly 11:11 am, the sun aligns perfectly with the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem, Arizona
[read more: bit.ly/2xDU0lI]
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Located in the province of Catania, in the Italian island of Sicily, is the town of Grammichele. It is one of the few towns in the world to have this unique hexagonal layout [read more: buff.ly/3RfTtz8]
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This is a pair of legs, clear. But are the legs shiny? You certainly see them shiny, at first, but looking better you'll find this is just a brilliant optical illusion using white paint
[source: ow.ly/oQrm30o30ZD]
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One year ago #Today, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched
[video: buff.ly/3hLj5bj]
[art by Ben Alp, van Gogh's Starry Night with the first image from JWST: buff.ly/3vlh6xe]
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This video by dr Lila Landowski shows two neurons sensing one another and connecting in a petri dish. They use webbed hand-like structures and the finger like projections help decide which direction to grow in [video + read more: buff.ly/3nzeTLB-]
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This red-tailed hawk seemingly suspended in the air
Its head is perfectly still while its body stabilizes around it
[📹 Bill Bryant: buff.ly/3igxQz0].
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This image shows what would happen if all of the water on or near the surface of the Earth were bunched up into a ball. The radius of this ball would be only about 700 kilometers, less than half the radius of the Earth's Moon [source: buff.ly/2LvbzOM]
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This time lapse video shows the lava flow engulfing a parked car on the streets of Puna, Hawaii as a consequence of the eruption of the Kilauea volcano on May 7, 2018
[source, video: buff.ly/2rsiaOC]
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Hyundai-10000 is the world’s biggest shear-leg floating crane in operation. The 10,000-ton shear-leg floating crane is equipped with two 180-meter-long crane booms and two sets of 70 m high back stay
[read more: buff.ly/3BgXlta]
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The giant manta ray is the world's largest ray and one of the largest fish. They can reach widths up to 8.8 m and weights up to 3,000 kg. This clip by Matthew David Kaplan documents a striking encounter with one of them [source: buff.ly/3b1H7rB-]
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Kinetic artist Reuben Margolin creates kinetic sculptures that seek to combine the sensuousness of nature with the logic of math. This is a mechanical caterpillar with charriot
[full video: buff.ly/3GSkD9F]
[site: reubenmargolin.com]
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The Giant Alaskan Malamute is a selectively bred Malamute that exceeds 70 kg in weight & 70 cm of height, originally bred to pull heavy goods between cities throughout Alaska. They have been recorded to pull loads up to 500 kg
[📹: buff.ly/3Rbvf9O]
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Photographer Varun Aditya captured this impressive clip without a flash in the Zimanga Private Game reserve in South Africa, staying for three nights in a hide to patiently wait for the pride of lions
[Instagram: buff.ly/2YmQ6LB]
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Architecto is a real challenge with more than 900 pieces to assemble in order to then solve the enigma which requires 116 movements
[📹 The_Puzzle_Guy: buff.ly/3B9XXSn]
[more: buff.ly/3B5cVZQ]
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Theoretically it is possible to encode all the information contained in every book ever written on a single notch on a perfectly straight metal rod (using only 2 parameters)
[📹 mathletters: buff.ly/3YF04YJ]
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PowerMoveIt's solar containers aim at distributing solar power everywhere without a team of expert technicians. Their target is to prepare a mobile power station with only one trained person at any location in less than 30 minutes power-moveit.tech
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The geographus cone snail can harpoon a prey with a venom potent enough to kill humans, but it can also release an insulin agent that cause fish to undergo hypoglycemic shock, essentially stunning it [video by Biopixel: buff.ly/2YlN5R8]
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Watch Delta Robot (right) and compact LR Mate 200iD robot (left) sort and move sets of four batteries with mesmerizing, seemingly-endless rhythm
[source: buff.ly/2ZVYkig]
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Mossy leaf-tailed geckos are nocturnal and arboreal. These geckos rely on their impressive camouflage as they dwell among the trees.
[read more: buff.ly/3gWlTwe]
[source: buff.ly/3YB7Gv1]
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The kind of car crash you will never be able to repeat [source: buff.ly/2u9Gp8P]
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This is the preserved shell of a giant 'ancient armadillo' creature called Glyptodont that roamed the earth around 20,000 years ago. A farmer in Argentina uncovered four of them in a dried-out riverbed near Buenos Aires in February 2020 [read more: ow.ly/cifl50B0cTo]
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This is how WWII bunkers in Normandy used a fake air vent to return grenade to sender
[📹 Normandybunkers, read more: buff.ly/3gZMaz5]
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An opossum mother will sometimes carry her young upon her back, up tp 15, where they will cling tightly even when she is climbing or running
[read more: buff.ly/2Lfzy1s-]
[source, The Dodo: buff.ly/3wzuNZB-]
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The articulated aerial robot Dragon has a vectorable rotor unit embedded in each link and it's capable of manipulating and grasping using vectorable thrust control [full video: buff.ly/3R5Asjd]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links