2026
This is a Babylonian tablet recording Halley's comet, written in cuneiform on a clay tablet between 22 and 28 September 164 BCE
[source: ow.ly/OIKl30nMUti]
[read more: ow.ly/ZFLD30nMUwb]
2027
Living off the coast of south Australia, weedy seadragons (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) resemble swaying seaweed making them difficult to find in their natural habitats, even though they can grow to about 46 cm in length [source, full video: buff.ly/2BJHGEK]
2028
Instead of being totally round, these gears take their cue from the Fibonacci spiral. If one gear is moving at a constant speed, the other will speed up and slow down during the course of its rotation
[full video, Kiyoshi Adachi: buff.ly/2S3FLDU]
2029
The life cycle of a leaf
[video: buff.ly/2AygXv2]
[📷 Rob Herr: buff.ly/2Ty4vlQ]
2030
Remarkably well preserved but embedded in stalactites and covered in a thick layer of calcite, this skull has given the oldest known samples of Neanderthal DNA, dating back between 128,000 and 187,000 years ago [read more: buff.ly/2EBzrtj] #AltamuraMan
2031
Kleptoparasitism, in which an individual steals food from other individuals of the same or a different species, is frequent in birds.
This paper explores the phenomenon among corvids: buff.ly/3qWB9Qh
[📹: buff.ly/3tdL8mS]
2032
A 3D visualization of an eye orbital structures from anatomy.app
2033
Neuralink has submitted its paperwork to the FDA and in about 6 months the company should be able to operate a Neuralink in a human
[video: buff.ly/3Bntq3R]
2034
The iodine clock reaction is a classical chemical clock demonstration experiment to display chemical kinetics in action; it was discovered by Hans Heinrich Landolt in 1886
[read more: buff.ly/2O7T6rg]
[📹 Mr A Shepherd]
2035
There is a valley in Antarctica called the 'Dry Valleys' which scientists consider to be the closest of any terrestrial environment to Mars & which hasn't received any rain in almost 2 million years
[read more 1: buff.ly/32bN8yc]
[read more 2: buff.ly/32iVPqF]
2036
The cigar box juggling is so rapid here, that the illusion of 3 hands is quite strong
[source: Kris Kremo, Generation Game Christmas Special, 1993, buff.ly/2GXLzGa]
2037
See what fact checking means before posting: means reading, spending time and cross checking, reconstructing a context. This is not a zunzunCito (sic) and not a hummingbird. It's a miniature created by Ina Malinik
{Instagram: instagram.com/p/CCXkKpXJI3r/] twitter.com/jimrosecircus1…
2038
When National Geographic launched a Pixar style 16′ x 16′ house 18′ tall with 300 8′ colored weather balloons and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted [read more: buff.ly/2FFHupt]
2039
The story of Beach Donkey, the 24-year-old African penguin who was diagnosed with pododermatitis, a foot condition that made it painful to walk. Now she walks with her custom-made shoes that treat her problem.
[full story: buff.ly/3Fk1PmI]
2040
A series of videos published by photographer Xavier Hubert-Brierre in 2012 ("le miroir en forêt") shows the footages of jungle creatures seeing their own reflections in a mirror for the first time
[full video, read more: buff.ly/3mOOZ30-]
2041
A massive single "tomato tree" growing inside the Walt Disney World Resort's experimental greenhouses in Lake Buena Vista, Florida has been recognized as a Guinness World Record Holder, with a harvest of more than 32,000 tomatoes & a total weight of 522 kg buff.ly/301GASp
2042
This photo of a disassembled 1988 VW Golf CL version was taken by Hans Hansen and shows 6843 parts of the car [read more: buff.ly/2vOCAGX]
2043
In 2015 researchers recorded the echolocation sounds used by a dolphin when it came face to face with a number of objects, reconstructing a series of 2-D and 3-D images that show how dolphins 'see' objects underwater. This is how they see a human ow.ly/aQ2s30naPDt
2044
If you have never seen what a rocket launch looks like from a plane above the clouds & by night, this surreal view of InSight liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base captured by Leslie Radosevich in 2018 is your thing
[full video: buff.ly/2WCp0A7]
2045
«One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions»
— Grace Hopper
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2046
How photographer Sunny Inaganti captured the perfect moment when a heron and a keelback snake found out who had the quickest reactions on a fish
[source, read more: buff.ly/2VEJREk ]
2047
Senet was a board game from ancient Egypt for two players. This set inscribed with the Horus name of Amenhotep III is from the period 1391–1353 BCE
[read more: buff.ly/3inxbMh]
2048
In Kenya, elephant excretions are used to make paper. Elephants poop up to 50 kg a day which can produce ~125 sheets of paper. This helps save the indigenous tree population and forest from being destroyed and creates a need for the 7000 elephants in Kenya buff.ly/2FRLnsn
2049
Cape penduline tits build a globular nest made of spider webs and silken fibers. They have a false entry and chamber below the actual entrance. This is a defence against snakes and other nest predators
[read more: buff.ly/3qsZDA6]
[source: buff.ly/3sDBhqa]
2050
Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists, so it's not that wrong saying that more than half your body is not human [read more: ow.ly/jzXo30nh4VU]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links