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In case you ever missed them, these flying animal robots are real and magnificent bit.ly/2hw4Gxx pic.twitter.com/pWSvYneyUh
How to self rescue in the event you fall through frozen ice [full video with sounds: buff.ly/2MJJYvs] pic.twitter.com/vlCfJ32IJS
Justine Haupt spent the last three years developing a device that strips away all of the non-phone functions of modern smartphones. The Portable Wireless Electronic Digital Rotary Telephone does not have a touchscreen, menus, or other superfluous features buff.ly/39wrTI6 pic.twitter.com/IC1EdriU99
The marvelous spatuletail gets its name from the male’s two longest tail feathers, which can be controlled independently and play a major role in the hummingbird’s courtship displays buff.ly/2OTJYbq [photo by Max Waugh: buff.ly/31Ycdee] pic.twitter.com/TfPXFNfcZo
Older, large-diameter trees have been shown to store disproportionally massive amounts of carbon compared to smaller trees, highlighting their importance in mitigating climate change, according to a new study [read more: buff.ly/2GxOLhH] pic.twitter.com/4e42T7Fjhl
Elephants are long distance swimmers. They can swim for up to 6 hours & 48 km. They are so buoyant that if they tire in the water, they can just rest by floating and will not sink buff.ly/3k8d5V0 [this was found 16 km off Sri Lanka coast in 2018: bit.ly/2vfMYCt] pic.twitter.com/SxuCedkogM
Apes are able to answer human questions, but not able to ask questions themselves. While they can learn sign language and communicate using it, there is no proof they ever attempted to learn by asking humans or other apes bit.ly/2CkXSOC pic.twitter.com/Nn0lvhmwvC
This is a 110 million-year-old fossil of Cleoniceras ammonite, found in Madagascar. Unlike the nautilus, the morphology of the tissue wall ammonites built between the chambers is not just a smooth curved wall but a complex 3-dimensional fractal shape buff.ly/3bKADfy pic.twitter.com/1tI7kvIoe5
If great scientists had logos
[credits: Kapil Bhagat & Prateek Lala: buff.ly/2LVacpC] pic.twitter.com/VjTyL7SCxo
This barrier-grid animation, also known as kinegram, made by Shigeki Naito, uses a matrix of holes to allow only some of the dots on the covered card to show in succession, producing the appearance of motion buff.ly/2HqUAtU pic.twitter.com/U8LONKoFGl
Photographer Diego Bighi turned a bridge in Comacchio, Ferrara, into a crescent Moon with relatively simple light effects buff.ly/2HpjzxQ bit.ly/2CmCLsQ pic.twitter.com/o6ePoRtCIi
This historic steam locomotive and rotary snow plow used to remove the snow from the train tracks in Alaska buff.ly/2wx3uBa [Here's a video of the White Pass and Yukon Route railway north of Skagway, Alaska, on April 27, 2011 buff.ly/2wBDSDk] pic.twitter.com/DljLiuOBYH
A blue whale's skull is big: this one measures 5.8 meters in length (19 ft) bit.ly/2lmJo6o pic.twitter.com/wmMiOgMYU4
The world’s oldest known spider apparently lived to be 43. Named Number 16, it died after being stung by a wasp [read more: buff.ly/2C5PqUq] pic.twitter.com/U4cxjyl5DM
How steam is used to make a vacuum that pulls with a surprising amount of force [source and full video: buff.ly/2CbPZME] pic.twitter.com/kLOOuQ6kPz
ExpandFab is a fabrication method for creating expanding objects using foam materials. The printed objects change their shape and volume, which is advantageous for reducing the printing time and transportation costs buff.ly/2uBRIYF pic.twitter.com/ibtLEr95qU
That time sir David Attenborough demonstrated the accuracy of the Mozambique spitting cobra’s venom streams by wearing a chemically treated visor that makes the venom turn purple on contact [video: buff.ly/3bHgjMk] pic.twitter.com/ERRmnIWDkh
The marvelous spatuletail gets its name from the male’s two longest tail feathers, which can be controlled independently and play a major role in the hummingbird’s courtship displays buff.ly/2OTJYbq [photo by Max Waugh: buff.ly/31Ycdee] pic.twitter.com/TfPXFNfcZo
This small cryptic-looking crab appears to have mastered the art of disguise by attaching various anemones and coral polyps to its exoskeleton. A slow mover, even when approached, it seems to have complete confidence in its ability to remain inconspicuous buff.ly/2SMUmTl pic.twitter.com/dZ8As0IlLS
The Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station is a pumped-storage power station in the ThĂĽringer Mountains at the upper run of the river Schwarza in Goldisthal, Germany: the largest hydroelectric power plant in Germany and one of the largest in Europe bit.ly/2CfK1cx pic.twitter.com/wERU9MNkTh
Waves reflecting underwater produce a caustic network: the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by the sea surface, or the projection of that envelope of rays on the sea floor bit.ly/2CiZupq pic.twitter.com/STBCjQpZz3
This historic steam locomotive and rotary snow plow used to remove the snow from the train tracks in Alaska buff.ly/2wx3uBa [Here's a video of the White Pass and Yukon Route railway north of Skagway, Alaska, on April 27, 2011 buff.ly/2wBDSDk] pic.twitter.com/DljLiuOBYH
Waves reflecting underwater produce a caustic network: the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by the sea surface, or the projection of that envelope of rays on the sea floor bit.ly/2CiZupq pic.twitter.com/STBCjQpZz3
Photographer Diego Bighi turned a bridge in Comacchio, Ferrara, into a crescent Moon with relatively simple light effects buff.ly/2HpjzxQ bit.ly/2CmCLsQ pic.twitter.com/o6ePoRtCIi
54 years ago #Today, Lunar Orbiter 2 was launched to the Moon to select landing sites for Surveyor and Apollo programs bit.ly/2f7bXmG pic.twitter.com/f9o61shJyM
Thanks Larry, have a great Friday!
Galileo spacecraft took this image of Io and Amalthea during its E11 orbit exactly 22 years ago #Today bit.ly/2esQXCX pic.twitter.com/CSyJECgJcp
448 year ago #Today, a supernova (SN 1572, aka Tycho's Supernova) was first noted by Wolfgang SchĂĽler of Wittenberg. This is the remnant of SN 1572 as seen in X-ray light from the Chandra X-ray Observatory bit.ly/2fR8Ssh pic.twitter.com/DHvkYGyyKa
An animated video helping breakdown animal gaits for animators [source, full video: vimeo.com/215637283] pic.twitter.com/nkJms8FAjR
This is a simulation of a red supergiant star (like Betelgeuse) based on its irregular brightness variations. Interferometers detect time-dependent deviations from the perfect spherical symmetry, that is commonly assumed for stars [more: buff.ly/38zHff4] pic.twitter.com/54G1mwcujo
Apes are able to answer human questions, but not able to ask questions themselves. While they can learn sign language and communicate using it, there is no proof they ever attempted to learn by asking humans or other apes bit.ly/2CkXSOC pic.twitter.com/Nn0lvhmwvC
An animated video helping breakdown animal gaits for animators [source, full video: vimeo.com/215637283] pic.twitter.com/nkJms8FAjR
Elephants are long distance swimmers. They can swim for up to 6 hours & 48 km. They are so buoyant that if they tire in the water, they can just rest by floating and will not sink buff.ly/3k8d5V0 [this was found 16 km off Sri Lanka coast in 2018: bit.ly/2vfMYCt] pic.twitter.com/SxuCedkogM
In case you ever missed them, these flying animal robots are real and magnificent bit.ly/2hw4Gxx pic.twitter.com/pWSvYneyUh
Older, large-diameter trees have been shown to store disproportionally massive amounts of carbon compared to smaller trees, highlighting their importance in mitigating climate change, according to a new study [read more: buff.ly/2GxOLhH] pic.twitter.com/4e42T7Fjhl
A pair of researchers at Syracuse University has found evidence that an ancient squid-like creature with a paperclip-shaped shell may have lived for hundreds of years buff.ly/3l93m24 pic.twitter.com/xWnezC98DU
How to self rescue in the event you fall through frozen ice [full video with sounds: buff.ly/2MJJYvs] pic.twitter.com/vlCfJ32IJS
From a ship, a plane, or the beach, the oceans can look pretty flat and uniform. But in reality, the water in the ocean piles up in peaks and valleys. It stands higher on some shores than on others, varying as much as 2 to 3 meters [read more: buff.ly/3l2EVDt] pic.twitter.com/lTeKqvYl8n
This well-timed telescopic snapshot by Derek Demeter shows the International Space Station and,.(about 400,000 kilometers away), the Apollo 11 landing site on the dark, smooth lunar Sea of Tranquility is to the right of the ISS silhouette buff.ly/3l4rbIr pic.twitter.com/Hh2K0ZzvJB