2301
Costasiella kuroshimae is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk. It's often called sea sheep due to its aspect and it's one of the only animals in the world that can perform photosynthesis
[read more: buff.ly/2t9sPys]
2302
«Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas»
—Marie Skłodowska–Curie
[source, more: buff.ly/3uISnmp]
[painting by Pavel Sokov: buff.ly/3Yi4QuH]
2303
The C-17 Globemaster can carry 77,519 kg (170,900 lb) of cargo with a maximum takeoff weight of 265,352 kg (585,000 lb)
[read more: buff.ly/3X8eOxw]
[📹 FRAproductions: buff.ly/3GtSjwu]
2304
Hiking in the mountains in North of Scotland, the author of this video came across a dried up river bed with a fresh water spring pouring thousand of liters out of it
[read more: buff.ly/3hxCY55]
[source, he_grows: buff.ly/3UHWlXt]
2305
Scotland is hardly visible from space due to clouds. This is a rare photograph of the Scottish Highlands captured on February 25, 2018 from the International Space Station [details and tags: buff.ly/2HEUnoL]
2306
This clip shows, with beauty and elegance, two fluid properties:
- Laminar flow: buff.ly/2FvvQCv
- Surface tension: buff.ly/3UBTUp1
[📹 beatwall678: buff.ly/3iJa1Ub]
2307
This impressive underwater photo by Emma Holmann shows a couple of humpback whales with their calf as capture off the coast of Vava'u, Vava'u, Tonga [author's site and more photos: emmahphotography.com]
2308
Timelapse footage recorded on New Zealand’s South Island shows a huge wall of cloud rolling toward an airport in Ashburton on November 27, 2021
[📹 HD, Austin Jones: buff.ly/3pq0mlN]
2309
The real master of disguise
[how octopuses change color: buff.ly/3yBHE0p]
[📹 Nick Ruberg: buff.ly/3ENHSTB]
2310
In 1418 Filippo Brunelleschi was tasked with building the largest dome ever seen at the time. He had no formal architecture training. Yet experts still don't fully understand the methods he used in contructing the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence buff.ly/3dsJIdg
2311
The versatile articulated aerial robot DRAGON can manage aerial manipulation and grasping by vectorable thrust control
[full video: buff.ly/3Av10o0]
2312
The edge of space and low Earth orbit to scale with a map. Stack of pennies on the right represents the Kármán line where space begins. It is 100 km high (62 mi). Left stack represents low Earth orbit, approximately 300 km (186 mi) of altitude
[source: buff.ly/2tgw5rQ]
2313
Shenzhou 14 astronauts delivered their first lecture from the Tiangong space station
[full video: buff.ly/3ewPOPN]
2314
The Long Room of the Trinity College Library in Dublin, Ireland, at nearly 65 meters in length (213 ft), is filled with over 200,000 of the library’s oldest books [source, read more: buff.ly/2JR6VaK]
2315
Klemens Torggler is the original creator of the 'Evolution Door' that George Corke modified in an homage to Torggler's original design in this awesome carpentry
[source: buff.ly/2DpJiHK]
[more about the original design: torggler.co.at]
2316
Magnus effect, can send even a ping-pong ball curving up, down, left, or right – always at a right angle to the direction of motion – depending on which way the ball is spun. This is a remarkable example
[source, IG's Pongfinity: buff.ly/2LnkrmF]
2317
In this digital hourglass by BitBlt_Korry, controlled by a Raspberry Pi Pico & running code in MicroPython, iron filings fall between two pieces of plexiglass while numbers appear, counting down 30 seconds
[source, read more: buff.ly/3NWVDTP]
2318
«Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads»
Created for Back to the Future's 30th anniversary, this floating Delorean uses a powerful magnet to recreate the flying capability of the 2015 time machine
[read more: buff.ly/3WZVR0U]
2319
Stotting is a behavior of quadrupeds in which they spring into the air, lifting all four feet simultaneously
[read more: buff.ly/2r6WmJY]
[full video: buff.ly/31GAg1E]
2320
Gyroscopes form an important in keeping the International Space Station and satellites pointing the right way as they orbit our planet. ESA astronaut Tim Peake shows how gyroscopes can be used to keep spacecraft stable
[read more: buff.ly/3HDaPBL]
2321
Born #Today in 1910, William Higinbotham was the physicist who invented the first video game, Tennis for Two in 1958, using a small analogue computer with ten operational amplifiers and output a side view of the flight of the tennis ball on an oscilloscope buff.ly/3BgnBSG
2322
Omphalotus nidiformis, ghost fungus, is a gilled basidiomycete mushroom most notable for its bioluminescent properties. This clip by Rob Parsons captures its soft green light [source: buff.ly/3EkuoN9] [author's IG: buff.ly/3miociq]
2323
In terms of Earth's history, in this brilliant infographic by Karl Tate, our last 100 years are ~0.02% of the tiny brown line at the top [source: buff.ly/2HeRlnC]
2324
Fallout from nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s & '60s is showing up in US honey. The findings reveal that thousands of km from the nearest bomb site and more than 50 years after the bombs fell, radioactive fallout is still cycling through plants and animals buff.ly/3tGTMIa
2325
Autonomous propulsion at the nanoscale represents one of the most challenging and demanding goals in nanotechnology. These are autonomously propelled rocket nano-machines observed with an electron microscope
[source, full paper: buff.ly/3yF9E0y]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links