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Doppelmayr Garaventa, an Austrian company, made this monorack to transport people and materials with a compact yet powerful design and it's available with different drive variants: petrol, diesel and electric [full video (DE): buff.ly/3pEn3DW]
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The frilled shark is considered a living fossil, because of its primitive, anguilliform (eel-like) physical traits. It can reach 2 meters in length and commonly lives at depths of 50–200 m (160–660 ft)
[source, read more: buff.ly/3RXXus8]
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The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) is an insectivorous marsupial once widespread across southern Australia, now restricted to several small colonies in Western Australia and considered an endangered species
[read more: buff.ly/3It8ZV0]
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Thanks to a close look at wings in nature, the FESTO's BionicSwifts are agile, nimble and can even fly loops and tight turns. The artificial swallows can move in a coordinated and autonomous manner by interacting with a radio-based indoor GPS [read more: buff.ly/3cK5fQT]
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Leptocephalus is the flat and transparent larva of the eel, marine eels, and other members Elopomorpha, the most diverse groups of teleosts, containing 801 species [read more: buff.ly/3F7du7N] [source, HRF U/W Production: buff.ly/3GluGoj]
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Scientists have hardly ever seen anglerfish alive in their natural environment. That’s why this video, captured in the waters around Portugal’s Azores islands, has stunned deep-sea biologists [source: buff.ly/2DJOTTP]
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The Pallas's cat is a small wild cat with a broad but fragmented distribution in the grasslands and montane steppes of Central Asia. The combination of its stocky posture and long, dense fur makes it appear stout and plush [read more: buff.ly/2HH2Cki]
2158
Beer is one of the oldest drinks humans have produced, dating back to at least the 5th millennium BC in Iran. This is a 4,000 year old beer receipt recording a purchase from a brewer, c. 2050 BCE from the Sumerian city of Umma in ancient Iraq [read more: ow.ly/n7bT30obqqq]
2159
The Magnus effect is a phenomenon associated with a spinning object moving through air or another fluid. The most common example is a spinning ball curving while falling like in this clip by How Ridiculous [read more: buff.ly/2PJeIiv] [full video: buff.ly/3kS5dZO]
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The Atlantic puffin can hold a large number of small fish in its spacious beak. This photo by Sunil Gopalan is a stunning portrait of the wild bird with a bountiful feast of tiny fish in its bill, which was selected by National Geographic
[read more: buff.ly/2xAi0eB]
2161
A peacock's feathers have fiber-like components called barbules, whose periodic nanostructures produce the train's colors through optical interference and Bragg reflections, resulting in their typical vibrant iridescent plumage: buff.ly/3bZjEeD
2162
Playful behavior is widespread in mammals, and has important developmental consequences. This study found that chimps play & develop much the same way as human children
[full paper: buff.ly/3HolkbM]
[clip by Liran Samuni: buff.ly/2OKRMtg]
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55 years ago #Today, Sweden switched from left-hand to right-hand traffic. This is a picture of Stockholm on that day [read more: bit.ly/2vDCfGU]
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It's not neither easy nor frequent to spot a humpback whale with a newborn calf. This extraordinary observation was made with a drone by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Marine Mammal Research Program in January 2019 [full story and full video: buff.ly/2onTLfp]
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Impressive upward lightning over Burleigh Heads, Queensland
[📹 Hayden Milne: buff.ly/3W6ofxz]
2166
Intel announced its 4004 processor #Today in 1971, the first commercially available microprocessor. It held 2300 transistors & delivered the same computing power as the first electronic computer built in 1946, which, in contrast, filled a room [read more: buff.ly/3tsw3wO]
2167
Flamingos are not pink. They are born with grey feathers, which gradually turn pink in the wild because of a dye called canthaxanthin obtained from their diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae. This is a baby flamingo
[source: buff.ly/3IqpovC]
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«There is something unspeakably sinister about a machine that does nothing—absolutely nothing—except switch itself off» —Arthur C. Clarke [buff.ly/3u2JUYn]
This version of the Useless Machine was made by Ridiculous Robots [full video: buff.ly/2yCty16]
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124 years ago #Today, Marie Skłodowska Curie discovered the radioactive element radium while experimenting with pitchblende, a common uranium ore bit.ly/2C7cnFJ
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See this? It's a spider that pretends to be an ant and mimics the antennae with its front legs. The phenomenon is called myrmecomorphy and there are two reasons why a spider would want to mimic an ant: to eat them, and to avoid being eaten by them ow.ly/9JsM30nZtEc
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Caladenia melanema, commonly known as the ballerina orchid, is a rare orchid with a single erect, hairy leaf and one or two cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers with red markings and black tips on the sepals and petals [read more: buff.ly/2O5TNU3]
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Alligators move on land by 2 forms of locomotion called "sprawl" (with the belly making contact with the ground) and "high walk" (up-on-four-limbs). This is a high walk used by a big one spotted in Central Florida in 2017 [source: buff.ly/3FWqcUF]
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This is when photographer Bjorn Steinbekk flew a camera drone directly into the active crater of a volcano, capturing a remarkable ultra-close-up footage before melting and succumbing to the intense heat
[read more + HD: buff.ly/3vS9Ibh]
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The perfect moment: how Clark Little captures giant waves crashing onto shore
[read more: bit.ly/2h9J78c]
[author's site: clarklittlephotography.com]
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The floor of the Florence Cathedral has some kind of amazing optical illusion built into it [read more: bit.ly/1svoOCh]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links