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Bio: Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links
Location: Italy, North by Northwest
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There are several ways to scan a book. This kind of scanners allows most gentle book scanning with no overstrechting of the books providing automatic page turning (up to 2,500 pph)
[read more: buff.ly/3hz35ZQ]
To pay tribute to all the enslaved people buried in cemeteries with no name, artist Craig Walsh put a face in the trees to honor their souls in an installation in Charlotte, North Carolina, called "Monuments"
[read more: buff.ly/3ChbM2N]
This gif is an early version of a 2006 visualization titled “The Inner Life of the Cell”. It shows a kinesin, a motor protein that moves molecules around the cell. It's powered by ATP and transport molecules along microtube filaments at a rate of 2000 nm/s buff.ly/2On4HTb
Filmed at 700fps, we notice the iris' fluids inertia cause the iris to wiggle after the eyeball has stopped moving
[📹 The Slow Mo Guys: buff.ly/2tAxKuZ]
A Sea Butterfly (Corolla spectabilis) gracefully swimming in the ocean
[read more: buff.ly/3uYSM49]
[📹 Chris Gug: buff.ly/3FBTn0F]
How Oklahoma farmer Carl Barnes uncovered a brilliant strain of corn now called Glass Gem Corn
[read more: bit.ly/2eVoqqR]
The burrowing parrots in Patagonia have been spotted working together to jump-start a water pump at a farm to have a drink
[full video: ow.ly/yMDp30oapR5]
Snowflake was born in the wild around 1964 and it was the world's only known albino gorilla to date. He lived at the Barcelona Zoo from 1966 until his death in 2003.
[read more: buff.ly/3C6PKiz]
[full video: buff.ly/3WnwiWg]
In the early 1950s, trademarks like General Chef L/K designed and sold this peculiar sink/fridge/stove combo
[more pictures: buff.ly/3PDACPe]
This clip by the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) explains quantum levitation and quantum locking as a consequence of the Meissner effect
[read more: buff.ly/3xfw2PO]
[source, HD: buff.ly/3apBuGQ]
NickFlightX has captured on video the perfect synchronized touchdowns at SFO (San Francisco Airport) with a United 737 MAX 9 and Alaska E175 landing together.
[more clips by the author: buff.ly/3uUEjq6]
The Ruppert Archaeopteryx is a high-wing, single-seat, foot-launchable microlift glider
[read more: buff.ly/3pxI6ae]
Raphael Zufferey developed a robotic bird, which has a 1.5 meter wingspan and weighs 700 grams, that can use a claw to perch on a branch in the lab after a short flight.
[video: buff.ly/3GacCQF]
When John Nash, the Princeton game theorist who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics and was portrayed by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, died in 2015, Princeton released his academic file to the public. This is his recommendation letter [source: buff.ly/3sqlb1m]
Comparison of the height of the most known trees, from the apple to the tallest tree in the world
[full video, HD, Red Side: buff.ly/3dHRLrO]
The Mexican mole lizard could pass for a slender, pink lizard. But the reptile doesn't have any hind legs. His lizard-on-top, worm-on-the-bottom creature appears to be a sort of serpentine centaur
[read more: buff.ly/3V5CMbe]
Designed and made by New Wind in 2016, the trees have plastic leaves which silently turn in the breeze. While larger industrial turbines can only work in winds of over 35 km/h, the leaves capture energy from wind speeds of less than 8 km/h
[read more: buff.ly/3B44wVy]
When a seagull will repeatedly stamp its feet in a rhythmic pattern, that is called the rain dance. It mimics the rain by vibration to brings earthworms and other bugs to surface
[read more: ow.ly/nUmM50nZ0ug]
The yeti crab, an unusual, hairy crab with no eyes, was discovered in 2005 on a hydrothermal vent near Easter Island. It is notable for the quantity of silky blond setae (resembling fur) covering its pereiopods (thoracic legs, including claws) buff.ly/2lxeqJl
This is a giant 50-meter deep 'crater' opens up in Arctic tundra. The recently-formed new hole or funnel is just one of the latest to be seen in northern Siberia since the phenomenon was first registered in 2014 [read more: buff.ly/2YKPAcY]
A zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion [ow.ly/vDAu30oawYi]. This is a 3D printed part created by Akinori Goto, which allows a light to project a simple, essential animation [source and more: ow.ly/uLbN30oax2A]
This gif is an early version of a 2006 visualization titled “The Inner Life of the Cell”. It shows a kinesin, a motor protein that moves molecules around the cell. It's powered by ATP and transport molecules along microtube filaments at a rate of 2000 nm/s buff.ly/2On4HTb
The Ruppert Archaeopteryx is a high-wing, single-seat, foot-launchable microlift glider
[read more: buff.ly/3pxI6ae]
To pay tribute to all the enslaved people buried in cemeteries with no name, artist Craig Walsh put a face in the trees to honor their souls in an installation in Charlotte, North Carolina, called "Monuments"
[read more: buff.ly/3ChbM2N]
How Oklahoma farmer Carl Barnes uncovered a brilliant strain of corn now called Glass Gem Corn
[read more: bit.ly/2eVoqqR]
Comparison of the height of the most known trees, from the apple to the tallest tree in the world
[full video, HD, Red Side: buff.ly/3dHRLrO]
A Sea Butterfly (Corolla spectabilis) gracefully swimming in the ocean
[read more: buff.ly/3uYSM49]
[📹 Chris Gug: buff.ly/3FBTn0F]
Neurons are often represented as isolated, but in reality they packed very tightly. Tyler Sloan made this animation showing 364 neurons packed into a box roughly the size of a grain of sand.
[HD: buff.ly/3WoadGZ]
[author: buff.ly/3j1jnuG]
There are several ways to scan a book. This kind of scanners allows most gentle book scanning with no overstrechting of the books providing automatic page turning (up to 2,500 pph)
[read more: buff.ly/3hz35ZQ]
When John Nash, the Princeton game theorist who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics and was portrayed by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, died in 2015, Princeton released his academic file to the public. This is his recommendation letter [source: buff.ly/3sqlb1m]
Designed and made by New Wind in 2016, the trees have plastic leaves which silently turn in the breeze. While larger industrial turbines can only work in winds of over 35 km/h, the leaves capture energy from wind speeds of less than 8 km/h
[read more: buff.ly/3B44wVy]
NickFlightX has captured on video the perfect synchronized touchdowns at SFO (San Francisco Airport) with a United 737 MAX 9 and Alaska E175 landing together.
[more clips by the author: buff.ly/3uUEjq6]
The AquaDom in Berlin, a 25 m tall cylindrical acrylic glass aquarium with built-in transparent elevator containining 1 million liters of water and over 1,500 fish of 50 species, has burst flooding the nearby streets.
[video: buff.ly/3YyCvjW]
The yeti crab, an unusual, hairy crab with no eyes, was discovered in 2005 on a hydrothermal vent near Easter Island. It is notable for the quantity of silky blond setae (resembling fur) covering its pereiopods (thoracic legs, including claws) buff.ly/2lxeqJl
This clip by the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) explains quantum levitation and quantum locking as a consequence of the Meissner effect
[read more: buff.ly/3xfw2PO]
[source, HD: buff.ly/3apBuGQ]
Jupiter radiates more heat than it receives from the Sun. This heat is generated by the Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism through contraction, which causes Jupiter to shrink by about 2 cm/year. When it was first formed Jupiter was about twice its current diameter buff.ly/2tEq2gW
Born #Today in 1913, Mary Keller was a Catholic religious sister, educator and pioneer in computer science. She was the first person to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States, giving major contributions to BASIC development
[read more: buff.ly/2RVepMI]
183 years ago #Today, John William Draper took the first known photograph (or better, daguerreotype) of the Moon and it looked like this [read more: ow.ly/Y34J30n2l4q and more: ow.ly/vCfb30n2l28]
The story of Emilie du Châtelet, the scientist who feared that bearing a child at 42 would be the last thing she did. In her final year, she worked furiously on a magnum opus that would change the world of physics. She was born #Today in 1706 buff.ly/2YIK4sf
