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10 years ago #Today, the Space Shuttle Endeavour had its last flight. Here's a photo captured over Los Angeles, few minutes its landing at LAX buff.ly/2FOzM2j
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This is a newfound species of tardigrade, one of about 1,300 known types of water bears. It was discovered in moss growing on dead tree trunks in Germany’s Black Forest. SEM image, magnified 2,400 times.
[📷 Oliver Meckes & Nicole Ottowa: buff.ly/3YTxuCQ]
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Zeugma is a 2,200 year old city located in modern Gaziantep Province, Turkey and it's one of the largest mosaic museums in the world. In 2014, this magnificent mosaic depicting the nine muses was discovered
[read more: buff.ly/3C9zQCe]
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My infection is still under investigation/therapy. My sister is about to be discharged: I’m thankful for the time spent together. She’s my twin, my new mom & even a daughter, to me, now. Thanks for your loving tweets. While still here in hospital, I’ll slowly restart this account
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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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#FridayFunDay
[source, Mark Parisi: buff.ly/3QxMAIG]
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Small update: it’s a quite painful and anxious journey. The operation went well but both, my sister and I have some complications making this period quite hard and long. Last night I had fever and doctors are investigating into the issue. Thanks for your messages and wishes
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This mechanical undeground garage of piazza Einaudi in Brescia, Italy has 700 parking places on three floors, but the most appealing feature is this elevator
[source: buff.ly/3nLxfJs]
[location: buff.ly/2Zi9uiL-]
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Despite their extremely futuristic appearance, skeletonics extend the movement of a humans arms and legs without the aid of any motor and it's not powered by electricity
[source, full video: buff.ly/300Pcdw]
[read more: skeletonics-us.com]
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The Netherlands is a leader when it comes to food production due to innovations in agricultural techniques which improve efficiency. Growing a kg of tomatoes in the Netherlands uses 9.1 liters of water. The global average is over 210 liters of water per kg ow.ly/fGQn30nEJYM
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Five metronomes are set to 176 bpm and placed on a Foam Core board. When empty cans are placed underneath, the board is free to move from side to side and the metronomes are able to influence each other into synchronization [read more: buff.ly/2tXDdKH]
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This is a 3D HREM visualization by Richard Behringer of a human embryo in its fifth week
It has a fishlike appearance because humans & fish share some DNA & a common ancestor, not because we go though a “fish stage”
[read more: buff.ly/3bV5cV0]
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In 1935, quarry workers at Porthmadog, North Wales were transported to the top via cable car. To get them back down to the bottom at end-of-shift, this no-energy way was devised
[source: buff.ly/3yZgZd5]
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These salmons cross a flooded road every year at the same location around five miles down the Skokomish River, in Washington State
[read more: buff.ly/3Jgc76N]
[📹 Terrence J Allison: buff.ly/3mwIWmf]
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These are the movements of bird populations spanning the entire year for 118 species throughout the Western Hemisphere [source: buff.ly/2pcAn0a]
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This video showing an F-18 approaching to a tanker aircraft, visualizes how mid-air refueling takes place
[📹 full video, JTSuits: buff.ly/3xo9hso]
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Blue Babe is the 36,000-year-old mummy of a male steppe bison which was discovered north of Fairbanks, Alaska, in July 1979. It was so well preserved that researchers removed a portion of its neck, stewed it, and dined on it to celebrate [read more: buff.ly/3dFrTwK]
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Hematite is a common iron oxide compound with the formula Fe₂O₃ and one of its varieties is the so called iron rose: orientated at various angles, it can result in a wonderful play of light from the crystal faces [source, Geology Wonders: buff.ly/3EZNOHE]
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Kirigami (切り紙) is a variation of origami, where the paper is cut as well as being folded
This paper investigates the creation of shape-morphing material structure with Kirigami & this is how you square the circle
[full paper: buff.ly/3gbPdUh]
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Lake Lalolalo is a volcanic crater lake surrounded by jungle to the southwest of the island of Wallis (Uvea) in the Pacific Ocean
[read more: buff.ly/3X3dk7T]
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You may have never seen DNA imaged with an electron microscope, so here it is
[source: bit.ly/2yd7EB8]
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One of the largest seabirds on the planet, the albatross is a powerhouse of flight that only comes back to land to breed. By exploiting the energy of the wind and dynamic soaring, they can fly non-stop for more than 16,000 km [video, BBC Earth: buff.ly/3xXqPKE]
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Created by morn1415 in 2016, this video about the true scale of the universe had 41 million views on YouTube and it's still a great clip to watch.
[full video, HD: buff.ly/3zWjDjt]
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This is when the US Navy launched trucks (actually weighted sleds) off the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier to test its jet catapult system
[source, full story: ow.ly/wDt150l2gMf]
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The Serpent d'Océan is a metal sculpture located on the Saint-Brevin-les-Pins beach, France. This permanent installation by artist Huang Yong Ping represents the skeleton of a huge prehistoric snake that is somewhat playful with the tides [read more: buff.ly/3wxJpc2]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links