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When 2 bodies orbit around each other in space, we know exactly what happens. But when the bodies are 3 or more, things can be more complicated, no explicit formula for the orbits exists & we have to rely on numerical simulations. This is just one example: buff.ly/31DExDX
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A kinesin is a protein supporting several cellular functions including mitosis, meiosis and transport of cellular cargo bit.ly/2jEGA6P [source of the gif: buff.ly/2vGJDBN]
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Judith Love Cohen, the woman who worked on the Pioneer, Apollo, and Hubble missions, was author & publisher of books about women in STEM, ballet dancer, mother of engineer/scientist Neil Siegel and actor Jack Black [read more: buff.ly/2ZCHkt7]
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Do whales & dolphins play together? In recent years biologists recorded several cases of interspecies play, as this clip of dolphins playing with gray whales seems to confirm
[video: buff.ly/3FuiMte]
[read more: buff.ly/3pyVNH8]
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A master of camouflage, Uropyia meticulodina is a 45-55 mm moth that may be found imitating a dead leaf on the forest floors of China and Taiwan
[read more: buff.ly/2O50GVl-]
[full video by Kazuo Unno: buff.ly/3CiT2w4-]
2381
Photographer & filmmaker Ryan Pernofski uses his iPhone to capture the majestic beauty of breaking ocean waves. This video was entirely shot with an iPhone X in an AxisGo housin [full-length HD version: buff.ly/3kzXm4f] ryanpernofski.com
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Often referred to as the jelly bean universe, this jar displays the overwhelming amount of dark matter versus ordinary matter in the universe. The universe is estimated to consist of up to 95.1% dark matter/dark energy with 4.9% coming from ordinary matter ow.ly/HUC850xflVA
2383
It's called visual hierarchy [read more: buff.ly/2RrbNGi]
2384
Have you ever seen a 5-story building structure collpase in a volcano? This is the approximate size of the portion of the rim that Hörður Kristleifsson filmed falling in the Fagradalsfjall crater in Iceland
[source, more videos: buff.ly/3PhkIcM]
2385
The late Shigeo Fukuda's sculptures portray deception & optical illusions: created entirely from forks, knives, and spoons, they cast detailed shadows like this motorcycle [read more: bit.ly/2fCNIPR]
2386
Artist and art director Greg Edwards used Mental Canvas to push the boundaries of space and time, taking us on a graphic journey through the infinite space of his fantastical imagination [source + author's Instargam account: buff.ly/3ECe8HH]
2387
How is it that Beethoven, who is celebrated as one of the most significant composers of all time, wrote many of his most beloved songs while going deaf? The answer lies in the math behind his music
[video: buff.ly/2YCepX8]
2388
Subatomic particles have a property called spin, an intrinsic form of angular momentum. Some particles, like the electrons, have spin = 1/2 and must rotate twice to get to the original configuration. This video by Lloyd Watts provide a good analogy: buff.ly/3BBgvIt
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This stunning sky scene was captured by multiple storm chasers in Vernon, Texas near the Oklahoma border in April 2021
[📹 Arkansas Storm Hunters]
[read more, photos: buff.ly/3szALsc]
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With a submerged displacement of 48,000 tons, Soviet Typhoons are the largest submarines ever built, able to accommodate comfortable living facilities for the crew when submerged for months. This is one seen along a beach in Severodvinsk in the White Sea buff.ly/2LYc41d
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Telescopefish are solitary, active predators, frequenting the mesopelagic to bathypelagic zones of the water column, from 500 to 3,000 m. The common name of these fish is related to their bizarre, tubular eyes ow.ly/ER2330n5ayW [source of the photo: ow.ly/lIro30n5az6]
2392
In the 1990s an oil exploration company dredged up brine shrimps larvae while drilling near the Great Salt Lake & when the the crew placed them in water, some of them hatched. Radiocarbon dating estimated they had been lying there for 10,000 years [more: buff.ly/1PrFfbq]
2393
The well-lit New York/New Jersey metropolitan area is viewed during the early morning hours as the International Space Station orbited 400 km above the northeastern United States in February 2020 [source, hi-res: buff.ly/3rZUcLu]
2394
One of Carl Sagan’s most widely known episodes of his iconic television program, Cosmos is the one explaining the Drake Equation. Watch the section in which he visualizes it
[full video: buff.ly/3uA8tMt]
2395
This clip shows the steps that brought to light the 66-72 million years old perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo whose posture was found to be common among embryos of modern birds
[video: buff.ly/3pLqgBl]
[full story: buff.ly/3HuRxy8]
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This video by Tony Whitfield shows Yoann Bourgeois performance: The Mechanics of History, at the Panthéon in Paris on Oct 14, 2017. Also a visual explanation of how potential & kinetic energy are exchanged on a trampoline
[HD: buff.ly/3a34Tpz]
2397
Eucharitid wasps are as much wonderful in their appearance as terrible as parasites [📷 Rodrigo Layug, read more: bit.ly/2vUca1r]
2398
The NOKIA 3310 was famous for being a super solid mobile phone, but what happens if you charge it with one million volts? YouTuber Kreosan shows us here: buff.ly/2s4dcIV
2399
This rare footage of humpback whales creating ‘bubble nets’ to snare their prey has been captured by drones from high above and from POV footages, with ‘whale’s-eye view’ recorded by cameras attached to them with suction cups [full video: buff.ly/31qV4rJ]
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This picture portrays Marie Curie and Albert Einstein strolling near a lake in 1929. Also a good reason to read the story of the letter Albert wrote to Marie and their friendship that many ignore [read more: buff.ly/3ouuw6v] [source of the photo: buff.ly/3quY9XY]
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