The human gut is lined with more than 100 million nerve cells—it’s practically a brain unto itself. But the gut has also a direct connection to the brain through a neural circuit that allows it to transmit signals in mere seconds
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If you don't have the proper tools, use teamwork. How weight, vibrations and balance drive a pile into the soil
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The levitating self-solving Rubik’s cube made by Japanese inventor Human Controller
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Olympus Mons, located on Mars, is the second tallest mountain and largest volcano on any planet in the Solar System. It’s a shield volcano and it roughly covers an area of 300,000 km², here compared with France
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How would the space be curved if you could travel at nearly the speed of light?
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On April 27, 2012, a team of scientists staged an airplane crash near Mexicali, Mexico. A Boeing 727-200, fitted with numerous cameras, crash-test dummies and other scientific instruments, was flown into the ground
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How colors change as you go deeper underwater, because water selectively scatters and absorbs certain wavelengths of visible light
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This is the #Apollo13 (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23Apollo13) NASA mission control, just moments before the accident. Fred Haise is visible on the screen. It happened 53 years ago #Today (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23Today)
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Comparison of some natural satellites of the Solar System. From the smallest to the largest compared to New York City and Earth
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Wombats have a backward-facing pouch: The advantage is that when digging, the wombat does not gather soil in its pouch over its young. Bonus: the baby can easily eat and stay warm at the same time.
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The gaur, also known as the Indian bison, is a bovine native to South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the largest species among the wild cattle and the Bovidae
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Gustaf III Airport airport located on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy is a very peculiar one and possibly one of the most dangerous airport in the world
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Sometimes simple ideas lead to amazing results, and Lucas Zimmermann’s long exposure photos of traffic lights are a perfect example of that
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Artist and electronic music composer Yunchul Kim created this kinetic sculpture named Chroma V, which illustrates the ‘world as a labyrinth’ where matter, time, objects and beings interact and co-exist
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Humans aren’t the only species that enjoy sunbathing. Turtles sunbathe too. While humans may sunbathe as a way of receiving a tan, turtles do (scientifically known as basking) to regulate their internal body temperature
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How the number of spirals in a sunflower match up with the integers 34, 55, 89 and 144 -- numbers found in the famous Fibonacci Sequence
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This video shows a group of three U.S. Air Force personnel taking two cats and three pigeons up on a flight in a C-131 Samaritan plane to test their behavior in micro-gravity, on Sept 26, 1947
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This robotic Rubik’s Cube has a custom 3D-printed core attached to servo motors that are programmed to solve the cube
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A miniature, perfectly working, W-32 engine
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42 years ago #Today (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23Today), the Shuttle era began with the launch of Columbia STS-1: the only time a first launch was crewed
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