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Bio: Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. @Coelum_news columnist. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via pics, videos & links
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The black and rufous elephant shrew is one of the 17 species of elephant shrew found only in Africa. It eats insects such as beetles and centipedes, using its proboscis to dig them from the soil and its tongue to lick them up buff.ly/2ZO7iv9 [gif: ow.ly/S1AG30q6DnI] pic.twitter.com/weOrXaKkF3
This is your brain in love. The fonts of desire identified by comparing functional MRI studies of people who indicated they were experiencing passionate love, maternal love or unconditional love buff.ly/2vBcrvc pic.twitter.com/WZu176Tik0
This set of four objects invented by mathematician Kokichi Sugihara of Meiji University in Japan includes polygons appearing as circles in a mirror and vice versa, and the “stubborn arrow” that will only point to the right (or, in a mirror, to the left) buff.ly/3hVDYKD pic.twitter.com/fNlOVZ1QFH
Every year, local communities on either side of the Apurimac River Canyon use traditional Inka engineering techniques to rebuild the Q'eswachaka Bridge. The old bridge is taken down and the new bridge is built in only three days [full video: buff.ly/3hWfMYH] pic.twitter.com/PgMSSXuMYR
This analysis, based on the EHT data sets 2009-2013 reveals the behavior of the M87 black hole image across multiple years indicating persistence of the crescent-like shadow feature, but also variation of its orientation—the crescent appears to be wobbling buff.ly/366yXwD pic.twitter.com/YA94JcryV7
Recent censuses of penguins in the Antarctic Peninsula have shown intriguing differences between species. Populations of Adélie & chinstrap penguins are declining, while gentoo penguins are growing. Remote sensing data are helping scientists figure out why buff.ly/303SfPE pic.twitter.com/HKYZOLwbk2
One of our Solar System's most tantalizing worlds, icy Saturnian moon Enceladus appears in these detailed hemisphere views from the Cassini spacecraft. In false color, the five panels present 13 years of infrared imaging capured by the probe buff.ly/366uIBd pic.twitter.com/N8ElSef6l1
In an interplanetary faux pas, it appears some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on asteroid Bennu, according to observations from OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The new result sheds light on the intricate orbital dance of asteroids and the violent origin of Bennu buff.ly/33NxdFY pic.twitter.com/uefmTxsoaO
Newly discovered small asteroid 2020 SW (~5 m in diameter) will have a very close encounter with Earth on September 24, 2020 at ~11:18 UTC, flying at ~0.07 LD (lunar distances) or ~27,000 km [more: buff.ly/2ZQr3n0] pic.twitter.com/BlwnshZMJn
The eerie appearance of the human eye under the macro photography by Suren Manvelyan [read more: bit.ly/18ABO9m] pic.twitter.com/hP1g6SaXDd
Waste management and recycling in The Netherlands happens with the usage of underground waste containers, collected via trucks without smell and garbage falling down and spreading along the roads [more: buff.ly/2FYehvY] [source of the clip: buff.ly/361Khu6] pic.twitter.com/pOQzol7Ncx
It stands just over 18 meters tall and weighs 25 tonnes. And, after years of painstaking work, a life-size Japanese Gundam robot has just proved to its legions of fans that it really can move [read more: buff.ly/3kHhVJz] pic.twitter.com/5f5wZwbZvt
This gif shows how cameras automatically adjust shutter speed to compensate for changing light conditions, resulting in an impressive stroboscopic effect [source + detailed explanation: ow.ly/P2GK50xLNQ9] pic.twitter.com/zS7vBuGiS3
A technician doing some small repairs on this CT scanner, gave the occasione to see what a Canon Aquilion going at full speed with its cover off looks like [source, full video: buff.ly/3clzgVy] pic.twitter.com/Ae7T6G1IH4
King Mackerel is often spotted jumping up to 6 meters into the air while chasing its prey and it's an impressive sight buff.ly/2LBQhN8 [source of the gif: buff.ly/2Ld1kzS] pic.twitter.com/w7po5EOU1p
The most part of our blood is diamagnetic oxygenated haemoglobin which is repelled by a strong magnetic field [full video: buff.ly/2zSKW2s] pic.twitter.com/wOwTKP2Ddg
Mexico's Great Pyramid of Cholula is the largest monument ever constructed on Earth, having nearly twice the volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza. A pre-classical masterpiece, it was found to be part of a vast complex of interwoven rooms and temples buff.ly/2L0ogSU pic.twitter.com/i0fN0XhsJZ
What happens if you hit a tree head on at 80kph (50mph). The vehicle is an Opel Mokka (also sold as the Vauxhall Mokka, Buick Encore and Chevrolet Trax) [buff.ly/2L4OPXl , DE] [buff.ly/2JAZGCQ , EN] pic.twitter.com/H4WHgtalCe
Founded #Today in 1883, the Nintendo Playing Card Company was a small business producing handmade hanafuda, Japanese playing cards. But during XX century, it would go on to radically revolutionize gaming around the world buff.ly/304XMoV pic.twitter.com/h09bRC8qRz
Inspired by the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015, this simulation video plays in slow motion but would take about one third of a second if run in real time and it shows two black holes merging buff.ly/2XdSRy9 pic.twitter.com/hLpwAyzAEl
Foxfire, also called fairy fire or chimpanzee fire, is the bioluminescence created by some species of fungi present in decaying wood. The bluish-green glow is attributed to a luciferase, an oxidative enzyme, which emits light as it reacts with a luciferin buff.ly/36nkFFg pic.twitter.com/Eq8Bc3qsX1
Filmed in slow motion by Science Luxembourg, water drops travel through a soap bubble, mostly without breaking it. How can this happen? [full video and explanation here: buff.ly/3coMIYJ pic.twitter.com/9KTKXOGHwk
Inspired by the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015, this simulation video plays in slow motion but would take about one third of a second if run in real time and it shows two black holes merging buff.ly/2XdSRy9 pic.twitter.com/hLpwAyzAEl
Founded #Today in 1883, the Nintendo Playing Card Company was a small business producing handmade hanafuda, Japanese playing cards. But during XX century, it would go on to radically revolutionize gaming around the world buff.ly/304XMoV pic.twitter.com/h09bRC8qRz
Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) are clouds in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 m (49,000–82,000 ft). These ones were captured by Göran Strand on December 31, 2019 from Östersund, Sweden buff.ly/37rVUaU pic.twitter.com/1HyKX68kAI
😁laughter will save the world (maybe)
Sometimes a small asteroid will skip off Earth's atmosphere, like a stone skipping on a pond. That happened last night over northern Germany. twitter.com/meteordoc/stat…
It's been a long, long time since I was in Kent. The situation was pretty much like this 😁 pic.twitter.com/BunzT7fMBn
Frogs' skin is critical to their survival. Through it, they both drink and breathe. Frogs don't swallow water; they get all the moisture they need through their skin buff.ly/2zRmKNQ [source of the gif: buff.ly/2uzoiHs] pic.twitter.com/gwxucUsQUk
This is a simple virtual creature learning to jump over a ball using genetic algorithms. It takes 249 generations, but the final result is great [full video: bit.ly/2mbs1nr] pic.twitter.com/d6Fc7Qbr0x
The billboard for the recent Dracula TV series uses a 3D shadow technique where the stakes create an ominous vampire face, just with a lamp and darkness buff.ly/2sysyJv pic.twitter.com/1ddxXlE6zI
Metal-coated crystals are natural crystals, such as quartz, whose surface has been coated with metal to give them an iridescent metallic sheen. This is a titanium (rainbow) quartz cluster, obtained via an electrostatic process [source: ow.ly/brUM50xLYNI] pic.twitter.com/gn17CPXVDL
Tindhólmur is an islet on the southside of the Faroe archipelago and it's one of the most evocative places on Earth bit.ly/2hh5fxU pic.twitter.com/ydOXRg9I0O
Mexico's Great Pyramid of Cholula is the largest monument ever constructed on Earth, having nearly twice the volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza. A pre-classical masterpiece, it was found to be part of a vast complex of interwoven rooms and temples buff.ly/2L0ogSU pic.twitter.com/i0fN0XhsJZ
The beak of a flamingo looks so weird because they feed with their head upside down. They stir up food from the bottoms of lakes & estuaries, then lower their bills into the water, where lamellae strain out crustaceans, algae, brine shrimp, insects, & fish ow.ly/BvJG30oqXcn pic.twitter.com/KDiY5QWcr3
The motion of rotating circles can be used to build up any repeating curve. Each circle spins at a multiple of a fundamental frequency, and a method called Fourier analysis shows how to pick the radiuses of the circles to make the picture work [source: buff.ly/2FkuWGd] pic.twitter.com/eoKZScdHJN
What happens if you hit a tree head on at 80kph (50mph). The vehicle is an Opel Mokka (also sold as the Vauxhall Mokka, Buick Encore and Chevrolet Trax) [buff.ly/2L4OPXl , DE] [buff.ly/2JAZGCQ , EN] pic.twitter.com/H4WHgtalCe
The most part of our blood is diamagnetic oxygenated haemoglobin which is repelled by a strong magnetic field [full video: buff.ly/2zSKW2s] pic.twitter.com/wOwTKP2Ddg
The billboard for the recent Dracula TV series uses a 3D shadow technique where the stakes create an ominous vampire face, just with a lamp and darkness buff.ly/2sysyJv pic.twitter.com/1ddxXlE6zI
21 years ago #Today, Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in the Martian atmosphere due to a unit of measure system issue bit.ly/1RKuLWt pic.twitter.com/936Md8Fic5