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Humans aren’t the only animals that hum while they eat. This extensive study documents that gorillas compose happy songs they hum during meals
These are gorillas singing while eating
[full paper: buff.ly/2zgaIKZ]
[📹 buff.ly/3QiWtdQ]
1402
I'm going to be re-hospitalized this afternoon for a planned intervention. I'll tweet according to time's availability and hope to be discharged in 2-3 days. Thanks for following and for your support.
1403
The story of Nigel Richards, the man from New Zealand who memorized every French word in the French scrabble dictionary and won the French Scrabble Championship without speaking any French
[read more: buff.ly/2rK5wi4]
1404
When the Space Shuttle was about 600 feet from the Space_Station the crew used to maneuver it through a backflip rotation to expose the heat shield to the station crew. This is Atlantis STS-129 in 2009
[source, video: ow.ly/WWGe50ogC3g]
1405
Visiting the Yosemite National Park you can happen to see a waterfall that suddenly becomes a spectacular fusion of colors, as in these footage taken by photogapher Greg Harlow in 2018
[IG: buff.ly/38OO1jq-]
[author's site: https://gregharlow.com-]
1406
Leonardo: the skateboarding, slacklining robot. Researchers at Caltech have built a bipedal robot that combines walking with flying to create a new type of locomotion, making it exceptionally nimble and capable of complex movements [learn more: buff.ly/3pw47ar]
1407
Dolphins are a profoundly curious and playful species. This clip is undoubtedly a demonstration, but there has been little systematic research on curiosity in dolphins
[full paper: buff.ly/3irJLhe]
[📹 Amy Schumacher: buff.ly/3UjciCI]
1408
46 years ago #Today, this iconic photo was shot at the first Shuttle showing: its name was #Enterprise [read more: bit.ly/2d8WnH5] #StarTrek
1409
Using fine art woodworking techniques, Larry Marley creates whimsical figurative sculpture & kinetic art. His intricate marble machine modules are both complex and satisfying to watch
[site: larrymarley.com]
[Instagram: buff.ly/3q1boh6]
1410
Smoke rings (or more precisely, steam rings) are rare, spectacular events seen in volcano plumes
[read more: buff.ly/2p5QXis]
[video by Geoff Mackley: buff.ly/2SXaFeN]
1411
In the fall, changes in the length of daylight & temperature cause the chlorophyll to break down: the green color disappears & the yellow to orange colors become visible
[read more: buff.ly/3Mdl7vE]
[📹 Justin McFarland: buff.ly/2RsCuLU]
1412
Obsidian is an igneous rock that forms when molten rock cools so rapidly that atoms are unable to arrange into a crystalline structure. The result is a volcanic glass that breaks with a conchoidal fracture
[📹 Outlaw Rocks: buff.ly/3ENAo4w]
1413
At the end of the 19th century, Paris was a hub of art, culture and technology, experiencing its Belle Époque. David Martin took this Lumiere Brothers' footage colorizing it with AI.
A Sunday in Paris (1900)
[read more: buff.ly/3VPofRE]
1414
Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together. It is biologically similar to grafting & such trees are called gemels. This is an example (Bükk National Park, Hungary) where one tree was cut [read more: buff.ly/3B6xodW]
1415
Preikestolen («Pulpit Rock») in Norway rises 604 m above the Lysefjorden. It was formed during the ice age, ~10,000 years ago, when the glaciers reached the cliff
[clip by Espen Hatleskog: buff.ly/3qklafZ-]
1416
Ever wondered why you wake up even when the alarm clock isn't making jarring noises? Your body has a protein called PER that determines when you wake up. You may wake up X minutes before the alarm, to prepare your body for the stress caused by the alarm ow.ly/s4nw30o8Ioc
1417
This algorithm can reconstruct an audio by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in a video. In this experiment, intelligible speech was recovered from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass ow.ly/SIdV30n37Hg
1418
How the 12th century Paisley Abbey in Scotland could feature a gargoyle out of the film “Alien” [read more: ow.ly/Yf7f30nseRD]
1419
The platypus localises its prey using almost 40,000 electroreceptors arranged in front-to-back stripes along its bill.
Bonus: this is sound it makes
[read more: buff.ly/2jqvqQb]
[📹 Platypus Conservation Initiative]
1420
This spectacular display of a great white shark jumping out of the water is called breaching. They do that during hunting, to stagger and catch fast moving prey. This clip was filmed by Chris Fallows in 2020 [source, read more: buff.ly/3pUspe5]
1421
Photographer Jessie Williams caught a glimpse of the impressive similarity between a young orangutan's hand a human hand in this awesome photo [source and author's site: buff.ly/2GIcL0g]
1422
Concentration of sugar in plant's nectar increased by an average of 20% within minutes of sensing the sound waves of nearby bee wings through flower petals. This might be part of the reason many plants' flowers are bowl shaped, to better trap the sounds ow.ly/a98e30no0gt
1423
Flame polishing is a method of polishing a material, usually glass or thermoplastics, by exposing it to a flame or heat.When the surface of the material briefly melts, surface tension smooths the surface
[read more: buff.ly/3WINXs1]
1424
This isn’t a painting, it’s an unedited photograph. Tinted orange by the morning sun, a soaring dune is the backdrop for the hulks of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Park [source, read more: buff.ly/2G9ef3q]
1425
How fast are you spinning around Earth's axis? This chart shows you the rotation velocity as a function of latitude bit.ly/2ioM0CR [source of the chart: buff.ly/2R2iulB]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links