1851
The Mexican mole lizard could pass for a slender, pink lizard. But the reptile doesn't have any hind legs. His lizard-on-top, worm-on-the-bottom creature appears to be a sort of serpentine centaur
[read more: buff.ly/3V5CMbe]
1852
This LEGO kinetic sculpture was named after Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky, which inspird it and was built with Technic angled brick joints [build it yourself: ow.ly/tvZC30nsW0X]
1853
Helium's the only element on Earth that is a completely nonrenewable resource. It can’t be artificially produced & is formed in natural gas wells as ancient uranium decays, which takes billions of years. That's why the world is constantly running out of it buff.ly/2CxkpWZ
1854
Illustator Jf Lemay [IG: lemay.jf] made this illusion which, thanks to the black background, is very difficult to break, but it's based on reverse perspective (like Patrick Hughes' artworks) [one seen side-on: buff.ly/36IsjMs] [source: buff.ly/3rvDznH]
1855
Perhaps to prevent overheating, dik-diks have elongated snouts with bellows-like muscles through which blood is pumped. Airflow and subsequent evaporation cools this blood before it is recirculated to the body [read more: buff.ly/2PmdXd8]
1856
Paranyu Pithayarungsarit is a photographer whose shots won a long series of international awards. Here, a large red sand dune in Namib desert during sunset splits the landscape between darkness and light [other pictures by the author: 500px.com/tontoxin]
1857
Tortoises and turtles can feel their shells. A mechanoreceptive innervation in the superficial layers of the shell is sensitive to transient stimuli [buff.ly/3ibuV9A, buff.ly/3m3kze4] [source, Badger Run Wild Rehab: buff.ly/3qSDOfn]
1858
Male seahorse giving birth
Thyy go thrugh pregnancy after the female deposits the eggs into their pouch where they are fertilized and grow, then hatch as fully formed mini-seahorses
[video: buff.ly/3XS0rhZ]
[read more: buff.ly/3VG0ITg]
1859
While the casting process dates back more than 5000 years, sand casting was first documented in 1540 & only took off in the early XX century with the rapid expansion of the automotive industry
[more: buff.ly/3aKWSC9]
[📹: buff.ly/3l4HsNP]
1860
The radial engine is a reciprocating type internal combustion engine configuration in which the cylinders "radiate" outward from a central crankcase like the spokes of a wheel. This is a 3D printed model of 7-cylinder radial engine [source by Adam's Lab: buff.ly/2A9Z4oF]
1861
The world largest A380-800 RC model Mega XXXL Thai Airways with turbines
[full video: buff.ly/3BHTxT1]
1862
One million Earths: a visual representation of how many Earths could fit inside the Sun
[source, @astronomyblog: buff.ly/3f5o3dY]
1863
40 years ago #Today, The Man of the Year in Time magazine was a non-human for the first time. A computer received the honour as 1982's “greatest influence for good or evil” bit.ly/2C7YmoM
1864
This is a magnified cross section of a pine needle
[source, Forest Schooling, Nature Learning, Earthschooling: buff.ly/3pQv2Oc]
[read more: buff.ly/3eRDczb]
1865
Mauna Loa, Earth’s largest active volcano, just woke up after 38 years, flooding the bowl-like caldera with a pool of glowing lava.
This is a footage captured by Andrew Hara
[source: buff.ly/3Ffde6U]
[read more: buff.ly/3AVsMu4]
1866
Dr Tatiana Erukhimova from @TAMUPhysAstr shows the outcome of a classic experiment: what happend when you pour liquid nitrogen in hot water
[read more: buff.ly/3Vw8e2U]
[📹 TAMU Physics & Astronomy videos: buff.ly/3Qm5YJ2]
1867
Artist Jonty Hurwitz creates amazing anamorphic sculptures that can only be seen in their own reflections [source, more artworks: buff.ly/2GiWbju] [more about anamorphosis: buff.ly/2GjoPko]
1868
Striking one tuning fork sets up a sympathetic vibration in the other, which can be shown by having a ping-pong ball attached to a thread
[read more: buff.ly/2GegL7J]
[resonance box: buff.ly/3ni5ruY]
[source of the clip: buff.ly/3vxrT75]
1869
You can pop a balloon with an orange: the limonene in the orange peels dissolves or weakens the rubber balloon [read more: ow.ly/IMhK30ngcc2] [full video, Home Science: bit.ly/2tOhU0f]
1870
The size of the rings of Saturn compared to our planet [read more: buff.ly/3qjjkfB]
1871
How vaping by a freeway can reveal the secrets of fluid dynamics
[📹: buff.ly/3V1UwEn]
[aerodynamics of a truck: ow.ly/PtKo30mKvoa]
1872
Butterflies & moths aren't the only insects that spin cocoons. Some chrysomelidae leaf beetles (instead of a silky & fabric-like substance) use a process with a foamy secretion which vaguely resemble a 3D printing process
[source: buff.ly/2Zl6RcG]
1873
Atheris hispida is a venomous viper species endemic to Central Africa. It is known for its extremely keeled dorsal scales that give it a bristly appearance [read more: buff.ly/2pD6pE6]
1874
These strange solids aren't spheres and yet roll in interesting and unexpected ways. Watch some of the most curious geometries such as the Wobbler, the Oloid or the Steinmetz Solid [video, by YT channel Maker's Muse: buff.ly/2LUzXbQ]
1875
Glasswing butterflies use mostly transparent wings to hide in plain sight. This is how they make their wings transparent: buff.ly/31cIXnT
[source Methona confusa from YT's InsecthausTV: buff.ly/3ECKhij]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links