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That time a beluga whale returned a phone someone dropped in the sea waters of Norway
[full story: buff.ly/2HqKkl0]
[about the beluga: buff.ly/3gD6DcW]
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The left galaxy is the Milky way, the right one the Andromeda galaxy. This is what will happen within 4 to 5 billion years from now
[📹 SaltyMikan + read more: buff.ly/3m1MX0W]
[2012 NASA model: buff.ly/39FAN8e]
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The reticulated python is among the three heaviest snakes.
This is how the it climbs a tree.
[read more: buff.ly/3RKCt4z]
[source, sped up video: buff.ly/3U19njp]
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Arkansas has one of the best quality quartz on Earth in the Hot Springs and Mount Ida area, where you can find several "dig-your-own" mines. This is how quartz is extracted.
[📹 Rocksforthespirit: buff.ly/3QS8czR]
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This famous time-lapse video by Mitsuru Yasui might be cute & amusing, but it also shows that, while cats don't need sunlight to obtain vitamin D, it helps them regulate their body temperature: buff.ly/3xV04qn [full video: buff.ly/3G94Ao9]
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The blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet
[read more: buff.ly/2Gxvibz]
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This drone footage was captured by @ReedTimmerAccu in Andover, Kansas in May 2022 and gives a good visualization of how a tornado forms
[video: buff.ly/3nLVvdz]
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Prosthesis is called 'the anti-robot' because it has no automation and is 100% controlled by the person inside via the exoskeletal interface. This is why it is what is known as a mech, not a robot
{learn more, exosapientech: buff.ly/3SzAMrh]
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Japanese farmers rediscover ancient rice-growing technique that boosts production without the need for chemicals. Using ducks instead [read more: buff.ly/2Hy0S9G] [video: ow.ly/tJeW30npsXA]
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Deniz Sağdıç turns what we consider waste into human portraits, drawing attention to pollution and showing that even the simplest materials can be used to produce an artwork, creating sustainable art
Instagram: buff.ly/3ArRXmI
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These silky sheets are actually a spider web. As happened in June 2021 in Australia, sometimes there are so many spiders making webs the silk becomes like one gossamer blanket [read more: buff.ly/2UDXx4q-] [Carolyn Crossley: buff.ly/3kdIybk-]
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A demonstration of how the horizontal component of velocity remains constant
[explanation: ow.ly/2WX930oetjg]
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Japanese multiplication
[how it woorks: buff.ly/3gRwcHx]
[📹 mathswithmisschang: buff.ly/3FwZTGb]
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This data visualization by @nicolaraluk shows the occurrence of earthquakes on Earth between July 2017 and July 2018, but differently from other charts, this ones shows them with their depth. Here you can find the interactive version: buff.ly/2qtZ9yn
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Crown shyness, the phenomenon in which the crowns of trees do not touch each other, is usually shown from below. This is what it looks like from above
[read more: ow.ly/p7Pf30osfEv]
[full 📹Dimitar Karanikolov: buff.ly/35rGRwt]
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Automaton Robotics created this artificial muscles robotic arm operated by water, consuming 200W at peak. Dumbbell weights 7 kg (15,6 lbs) , forearm with hand only 1 kg (2,2 lbs) [read more: buff.ly/3jqZlY5]
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This requires a mandatory center of mass analysis
[📹 ellariya_bohdanova & karinasandovich: buff.ly/3Chdvot]
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Jaguars are excellent swimmers
[read more: buff.ly/3LmNkje]
[📹 buff.ly/3RQl8r5]
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When throwing paint turns into a masterpiece.
Paul Kenton is a contemporary artist, acclaimed for his cityscape paintings which capture the unique energy of cities across the world
[source, more videos: buff.ly/3Hfu47a]
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99% of the internet network runs through submarine cables. There are over 420 submarine lines in the world, totalling 1.3 million km, over 3 times the distance from Earth to Moon.
[Tyler Morgan-Wall: buff.ly/3vTBa9P]
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A highly magnified video of single stoma opening and closing on a leaf of a Tradescantia spathacea plant, commonly known as a boat lily.
This is how a plant breathes
[source, Douglas Clark: buff.ly/3VhQAQ6]
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Mount Roraima and the other tabletop mountains in Canaima National Park are considered to be the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back around two billion years to the Precambrian Era [read more: buff.ly/2Lyzfm1]
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Mount Roraima and the other tabletop mountains in Canaima National Park are considered to be the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back around two billion years to the Precambrian Era
[read more: buff.ly/2Lyzfm1]
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Fruit farmers' most difficult task is organizing the havest. Tevel's drones select, pick and box only ripe fruits with the help of an AI working day and night
[full video: buff.ly/3APys9i]
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You can actually kind of 'suction' plasma with a Tesla coil and a syringe helped by a nail [source and full video, by ElectroBOOM: buff.ly/2IvYXD0]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links