926
The exploding whale. The weird story of when Oregon authorities decided that the best way to dispose of a whale carcass was to blow it up with half a ton of dynamite, causing blubber to rain down everywhere
[read more: buff.ly/3vSaTJP]
927
It might sound as an insane idea, especially because it took 83 days of planning, dreaming, building & filming, but in the end The Brick Wall gave you a video of a cucumber house being constructed using a LEGO robot
[full video: buff.ly/3pFfFrK]
928
Today the sun will rise at 12:40 in Utqiagvik (formerly known as Barrow), Alaska to set just 63 minutes later. It will be the last time the town sees the sun this year. Next sunrise will be on January 23rd, 2023 after 1584 hours of darkness [time & date: buff.ly/3V9DBAa]
929
Candles burns thanks to a combustion reaction that requires oxygen (O₂). When you pour a cup of CO2 over the candles, this displacesall the normally mixed air, along with all that O₂ the fire needs to burn.
[read more: buff.ly/3GLOBzC]
930
Bobcats can easily jump several meters and if they are jumping across something, like this weir in Pecan Island, Louisiana, their leap can reach 6 meters
[read more: buff.ly/3pwZxbr]
[source, Ryan Olivier: buff.ly/32F6f6y]
931
The story of Dr. Khurshid Guru, who created a nebulizer on an Air Canada flight, using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler to help an asthmatic toddler breath
[read more: ow.ly/UVYa30nc83t]
932
This photo by Michael Fontaine shows an incredible sighting of several simultaneous waterspouts churning off the states of Louisiana and Mississippi on August 20, 2020 [read more: buff.ly/3aMslE2] [source of the photo: buff.ly/3ghNrv2]
933
‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before’
In an absolute first, astronomers have observed a black hole burping up stellar remains 3 years after it shredded and consumed the star, without swallowing anything new in the meantiime [read more: buff.ly/3VkUrNo]
934
This shot comes from photographer Sean Scott off a remote West Australian beach. He was flying his drone over a large school of bait fish that was attracting whaler sharks and managed to get this shot with two sharks inside a wave [source, read more: buff.ly/2IPnx1P]
935
An impressive footage of a hunt by two saluki dogs chasing a rabbit in the desert. Saluki hunt by sight more than scent or sound and this gives advantage to rabbits.
[full video: buff.ly/3BGtVGj]
936
This slow motion video depicts the motion of the brain during an impact event. Concussions are the most common form of traumatic brain injury & are a growing concern in many contact sports [Source, University of California: buff.ly/3mJouPh] [more: ow.ly/MnvP30nOnGV]
937
Trained African Giant Pouched Rats have found thousands of unexploded landmines & bombs. Researchers also trained these rats to detect tuberculosis. Most recently they are training them to sniff out poached wildlife trophies exported out of African ports buff.ly/2L46yua
938
Fun fact: the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost part of Brazil
[read more: buff.ly/2Q73lxK]
939
Curiosity doesn't belong to humans only.
This is the moment Shabani the gorilla and his son are entranced by a caterpillar at Higashiyama Zoo, Nagoya, Japan
[Animal curiosity: buff.ly/3Qn4HkQ]
[📹: buff.ly/3wQXgeM]
940
"Persistence of vision display" or POV display are LED devices that compose images by displaying one spatial portion at a time in rapid succession. One example are Hologram Fans
[read more: buff.ly/3ykp0cd]
[📹buff.ly/3imObWT]
941
If enough speed is built up in the water, an African butterflyfish can jump and glide a small distance above the surface. These are three young specimens
[read more: buff.ly/3mAqt8t]
[source, full clip: buff.ly/30ZMpCl]
942
Phelsuma is a large genus of geckos in the family Gekkonidae. Species in the genus Phelsuma are commonly referred to as day geckos
[read more: buff.ly/3UMULUN]
[📹 Maya Rosal: buff.ly/3UMULUN]
943
JamHamster built this virtual tape deck with a cassette tape shell and the head from a cassette audio adapter using an Arduino Nano to store tape data files and replay them to load software on a ZX Spectrum +2
[read more: buff.ly/3h8x2u1]
944
The moment in which surfer Sebastian Steudtner rode a 35 meter (115 feet) tall wave at Nazaré, Portugal on January 18, 2018
[full video, HD: buff.ly/2PBDUqP]
[why the waves at Nazaré are so tall: buff.ly/3jsANxA]
945
Christopher Swann, who has been whale watching for several years, eye-witnessed a pod of orcas hunting down a dolphin back in 2013. Among the shots he took, this one shows the approximately 4-ton mammal leaping about 4 meters into the air [source: buff.ly/2DWYTM0]
946
Believe it or not, bonsai trees—yes, the delicate miniature shrubs that have been grown in Asia for centuries—can actually yield fruit. And, normal size fruit, actually
[read more: ow.ly/TDyq30nZ5tN]
947
«While spacewalking I realized something: I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity»
— NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman
[source: buff.ly/3ilOqz0]
[spacewalk: spaceflight101.com/iss-expedition…]
948
It's okay to feel stupid, especially doing science.
[source: buff.ly/3dQ6lxs]
949
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]
950
The scale of Dimorphos
The 160-m diameter Dimorphos asteroid compared to Rome's Colosseum. NASA's DART spacecraft collided with Dimorphos last night
[source, read more: buff.ly/3SCJyog]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links