1251
Dr Tatiana Erukhimova from TAMU Physics explains the basic principle of a gyroscope using the classic bike spinning wheel and a rope
[read more: buff.ly/3Thf1g8]
[📹 TAMU Physics & Astronomy videos: buff.ly/3Qm5YJ2]
1252
This clip from a 1961 documentary shows how a map was made, using tellurometers, punch cards, stereo plotting machines tracing scale maps from aerial photographic plates
[full video: buff.ly/3vCqsUi]
1253
Watch the moment the Kham Lha herd runs to a reunion with Darrick Thompson, who operates an elephant sanctuary in Chiang Mai province, Thailand, after 14 months
#ElephantsNeverForget: buff.ly/2FHKthn
[📹 elephantnews: buff.ly/3H4wBxw]
1254
Elephants help each other in distress, grieve for their dead, feel emotions like us. This is Nosey making her first new friend at her sanctuary after working in a circus for 29 years
[story: buff.ly/3CyhsE4]
[read more: buff.ly/3ENmkrT]
1255
This is the first time you see a rocket launching with its booster landing (Iron Man style) in the middle of the ocean on a drone ship at sunset and in the same frame shot
[SpaceX Intelsat 33 & 34 mission: buff.ly/3SXnogK]
1256
The rainbow starfrontlet (Coeligena iris) is a species of hummingbird in the "brilliants" tribe Heliantheini. Males have a glittering yellow-green forecrown that transitions through golden yellow to blue on the crown
[📷 Jorge Luis Cruz Alcivar: sanjorgeecolodges.com]
1257
The chemical traffic light is a color-changing redox reaction typically using glucose, sodium hydroxide, indigo carmine (dye), and water.
[📹 techience: buff.ly/3vn3MZk]
1258
ABC3D by Marion Bataille is as much a work of art as it is a pop-up book. Each of the 26 three-dimensional letters move and change before your eyes
[more: buff.ly/3Z62GyI]
1259
Born #Today in 1894, Satyendra Nath Bose was mathematician and physicist. He's best known for his collaboration with Albert Einstein in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate buff.ly/2kaI0qZ
1260
These odd-looking bugs were spotted in 2017 by Mandy Trichell in Texas. They are likely Homaemus proteus and show a curious and interesting colelctive behavior
[source, Storyful: buff.ly/3BhtUc1]
[more info: buff.ly/3AQtDv1]
1261
Emperor penguins transport their chicks on their feet. Some of them might be doing that the wrong way
[source and full video: buff.ly/34Ew5nI]
1262
In 2016 Ticket To The Moon, along with its mastermind and project coordinator Igor Scotland, designed an impressive 80 meters long hammock caravan 200 meters above the Canyon sector Oker more than 200 meters above the canyon floor [video: buff.ly/2JN13j8]
1263
Century-old footage of the last known Tasmanian tiger in captivity has been brought to life by colourisation performed by Samuel François-Steininge, offering a tantalising glimpse of the now-extinct creature
[read more: buff.ly/3l5L1UU]
1264
This infographic visualizes the difference between Euclidean, spherical and hyperbolic geometry
[source: buff.ly/3hHuy9j]
[read more: ow.ly/AO0630q1yht]
1265
To reveal the folding mechanism of a ladybug's wings, researchers constructed a transparent artificial elytron from ultraviolet light-cured resin: this method revealed the detailed wing-folding mechanism occurring under the elytra [full paper and video: buff.ly/2OGQWkt]
1266
How you make a spray-on dress.
The spray used by Coperni for Bella Hadid's dress, is made up of Torres' Fabrican liquid that contains fibers suspended in a polymer solution, evaporating upon contact with the body
[read more: buff.ly/3E7zrn8]
1267
Dry-ice blasting uses dry ice, the solid form of carbon dioxide, accelerated in a pressurized air stream. Here it's used used to deburr and deflash in preparation prior to painting
[read more: buff.ly/3l38mr5-]
[source: buff.ly/3xkCmnj]
1268
When MIT made an army of tiny, 'virtually indestructible' cheetah robots capable of backflipping and even playing with a soccer ball — see them in action [full story and full video: buff.ly/2PZha2o]
1269
Comparison of the height of the most known trees, from the apple to the tallest tree in the world
[full video, HD, Red Side: buff.ly/3dHRLrO]
1270
Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans. Today, humans represent aproximately 34% of global mammal biomass, while 62% is humans' livestock and pets. Wild mammals are just 4%
[read more: ourworldindata.org/mammals]
1271
David S. Wright, the college physics professor made famous by a tweet and his teaching technique, built from his very first lesson in 1974 until his retirement in 2020 in attempt of making physics enjoyable & exciting
[read more: buff.ly/3BtdZHy]
1272
This autonomous robot can complete chemistry experiments 1,000x faster than a human scientist. Over an 8-day period the robot has chose between 98 million experiment variants and discovered a new catalyst for green technologies [read more: buff.ly/2W37tCp]
1273
Does lightning strike from the sky down, or the ground up? The answer is both. Cloud-to-ground lightning comes from the sky down, but the part you see comes from the ground up
[read more: buff.ly/2Lgst0O]
[📹 Taylor Vonfeldt]
1274
This is what Mount Fuji looks like from the International Space Station. The picture was captured by Expedition 2 on May 27, 2001 with a Kodak DCS460 Electronic Still Camera and an 800 mm focal length lens
[source: ow.ly/kh5w30o4nBS]
1275
«Behind the Curve» is a 2018 documentary about the global community of people who believe that the Earth is flat. This is when flat-earther Jeran Campanella devises a simple experiment and accidentally proves the Earth is round: buff.ly/3C76K94
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links