This Nebula Is a Violent Cosmic Butterfly
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Two teachers in China teach static electricity in a fun way.
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Tumbleweeds start out as tiny seedlings; by summer the plant has a round shape. They grow flowers and fruits. By fall they dry and detach from their roots, so they spread their seeds.
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Very strong winds in my neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro late yesterday (Wednesday, July 29, 2026) afternoon.
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Antarctica outside
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An ancient technique for lifting giant stone blocks using a Lewis tool
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A mechanical hand fan that operates without electricity, widely used during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Moments when a cat mimics a dog just to grab its owner’s attention.
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It looks like this from below:
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A photographer captured photos of street cats and shared the results.
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A brilliant birdcage design
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Pets that imitate their owners
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A traditional technique practiced by young shepherds of Ethiopia’s Banna tribe. They walk on stilts to watch over their livestock in tall grass, navigate wetland areas, and stay safe from snakes and predators such as lions and leopards. It demands strengt
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A 300-year-old yew tree tunnel in Ireland
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Each sphere is moving in a straight line, but the final motion is circular
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The most extraordinary mountain road in China—the Lingpaishi Zigzag Highway in Wuxi, Chongqing.Spanning just 450 meters, this mountain road features 18 hairpin turns, each at a sharp 180° angle.
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Just how does this species survive in the wild? ?
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It is impossible to lose sight of them on the night walk. ?
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Du Zhu Piao is an ancient Chinese tradition where people balance and move on a single floating bamboo pole, originally used for river travel and fishing.
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This tissue box design made it look so elegant
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Brazilians might have a spiritual connection with balls.
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Tech support has arrived..
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This is not a time-lapse video
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The literal meaning of copycat
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Hugo Suissa turns everyday objects into playful optical illusions, blending imagination and perspective into stunning photography.
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The common tailorbird can sew leaves together using spider silk and plant fibres to make a nest, a deep cup, lined with soft materials
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A crow just pretending
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Galagos, also known as bush babies
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Crown shyness is a phenomenon where the top branches of neighboring trees avoid touching to stay safe, leaving visible jigsaw like gaps between their crowns.
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Metamaterials, or materials whose function is determined by structure, not composition, have been designed to bend light and sound, transform from soft to stiff, and even dampen seismic waves from earthquakes. This is what Harvard SEAS designed.
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This is incredible! Hawkmoth caterpillars pull off one of the most convincing bluffs in the animal kingdom.
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Creating natural light in a home without electricity
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Filmed for the first time by wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory, emperor penguin chicks leap from a 50 foot ice cliff to take their first swim.
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Fun fact: you can see photosynthesis in real-time.This is an aquatic plant producing oxygen.
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A paper trick that looks impossible… but it’s just geometry
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A smile for your timeline...
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On July 4, 2012, in San Diego, California, a computer glitch at a fireworks display accidentally set off 7000 fireworks simultaneously.An event remembered as one of the greatest fireworks shows of all time.
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Just a dog having the best day of its life.
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The differences in personality are interesting.
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Creative clock installation by Dutch designer Maarten Baas.
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Just a beautiful tree
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Insane reversing skills Wait for it
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Nothing special to see, just an army of piglets queuing up to dive.
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No other species on Earth has a teamwork system quite like ants. This tiny creature pulls off missions far bigger than its size could ever suggest.
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Waves grow steeper and taller as they approach the shore, as the front slows down due to friction with the seabed, but the energy behind it continues to push forward, causing the crest to curl over and release the wave's energy.
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Building a little bridge in the aquarium so the fish never get bored.
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He found the strawberry garden
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Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced. This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomograph
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An entire forest inside a sinkhole Tongtianluo Cave, Guangdong, China
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Capybaras have long legs and they kept it a secret
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Danxia Mountain trail Wait for it …
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Free fall through a cloud
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The Logarithmic Spiral Gears is an extreme example of non-circular gear sets. It's based on the famous Fibonacci spiral and evokes the cross section of a nautilus shell with internal chambers
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Fynn Jackson is an origami artist known for creating incredibly detailed paper sculptures, often folding expressive faces and complex forms from a single sheet of paper.
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The curly feathers of Sebastopol geese
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In a Chinese school, two teachers explained static electricity to students in a fun and engaging way:
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There is a tree in the Amazon, the Sumaúma (Ceiba pentandra), that can reach about 70 metres tall, rising above the forest canopy. It has massive buttress roots that spread like wings to stabilise it in shallow soil, sometimes large enough to stand betwee
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