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Did humans really step-foot on the moon?
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This is not an illusion or some kind of sci-fi illustration. It's an actual laser beam, being shot at the eclipsed Moon on the 15 April 2014. The laser's target is the Apollo 15 retroreflector, which was left on the Moon by astronauts in 1971.
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You are what you eat
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You are what you eat, especially if you happen to be an ant with a transparent abdomen, being fed a mixture of food colouring, sugar, and water by a curious scientist.
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duddy |
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Go home nature. You are drunk!
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This is the Wilson's bird-of-paradise, found exclusively on the tiny islands of Waigeo and Batanta in the Raja Ampat archipelago of West Papua. That turquoise cap isn't made of feathers - it's actually a patch of very brightly coloured bald skin.
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Where do we go from here?
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It's awe inspiring the fact that 100 years ago we were just beginning to experiment with flight. Now we are looking at quantum computers, gene therapy, a colony on Mars, and so much more. Life has been going on for three billion years. It's almost impossible to describe how rapid the recent change in technology has been. The future will be one hell of a sight if we make it that far.
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An amazing birdhouse made by nature's engineers
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Believe it or not, a bird made this. Vogelkop gardener bowerbirds from New Guinea go to extraordinary lengths to build a love nest from interwoven sticks and decorative objects to appear more attractive to a female.
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This will make you appreciate pill bugs way more
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This bizarre little beetle is a species of pill bug from the Monteverde cloud forest of Costa Rica. Just 5 mm long, it can shrink itself even smaller when threatened by curling itself up into a perfect ball.
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Imagine flying from New York to London in 45 minutes
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NASA's 'Space Needle' (from the 1950s), or X-15, is the fastest and highest-flying manned aircraft. Decades after its record-breaking flights, this speed machine is inspiring a new generation of space planes.
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duddy |
10 years ago |
Moth beauty
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The Jewel caterpillar and the moth it turns into. The 3 cm caterpillar is a member of the Dalceridae moth family, known as Acraga coa.
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A fish that resembles a bird
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This bright blue fish, named the blue parrotfish, can be found in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, and spends 80% of its time searching for food.
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How to care for a baby sloth
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Deforestation has left sloths in the wild almost homeless, but a woman in Costa Rica opened up a rescue centre to make sure the species survives. She has a sloth nursery that has provided us with some super cute sloth footage that helps raise awareness of the struggles faced by this species.
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World's first edible water-bottle
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A team of scientist are working to create an edible water-bottle. Rodrigo González and his team first took a frozen ball of water and dipped it into a calcium chloride solution, which formed a gelatinous layer. Then, the ball soaked in another solution made from brown algae extract, which encapsulated the ice in a second squishy membrane to reinforce the structure. Keeping the water in the algae solution for long periods of time allows the mold to become thicker and stronger.
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I thought giraffes were vegetarians?
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This is a giraffe chewing on an impala skull. The behaviour sometimes seen in wild giraffes is called osteophagia, which literally means "bone eating". It's thought the bones help provide them an additional source of calcium and phosphorous.
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A snail with a strange, yet special defense mechanism
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Behold, the fantastically creepy caterpillar of the pink underwing moth ( Phyllodes imperials). When it's threatened, this Australian native rears its upper body segments up and curls its head down towards its 'chest', to create the illusion of a much larger, much toothier, head.
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Carnivorous albino snail
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Meet the 'Milky Bar' Snail. This giant carnivorous albino snail has been found in the New Zealand bush, and it's only the second recorded sighting of such a creature.
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duddy |
10 years ago |
Why PDAs failed
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I found this wonderful article online that seems to have been abandoned for some time now (source below), it's called: Timing of Entry from PDAs to Smart Phones: The Evolution of an IndustryDespite having innovative and sophisticated product designs, most of the early PDA companies failed. This was mainly because the success of PDAs was dependent on several aspects of enabling technology that had not been fully developed at the time a flurry of companies ventured into this sector. The success of PDAs was dependent on the invention of enabling technologies such as handwriting recognition software, modems, and power and memory miniaturization. Several enabling technologies had no capacity to support PDA manufacture. Handwriting recognition was ...
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Massive katydid
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This Malaysian katydid is one of the largest insects in the world, with their bodies growing to 15 cm (6 inches) long with a 25 cm (10 inch) long wingspan. Though the last thing you want to hear is that this giant insect is carnivorous, they pose absolutely no threat to humans (aside from haunting your dreams, of course). Relatively speaking, the males of this species have the largest testes of any known animal at 14% of their body weight. If humans had the same ratio, a 91 kg (200 lb) man would have testes that weighed nearly 13 kgs (28 lbs)! ...
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Ever heard of a moonbow?
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Ever heard of a moonbow? Otherwise known as 'space rainbows', moonbows are a rare weather phenomenon that only occur at night, created by moonlight refracting through moisture in the air. You can only catch them in a few places on Earth, such as the Victoria and Yosemite Falls, where the light of a full moon can refract off the constant spray from these huge waterfalls.
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Solar Impulse II
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Meet Solar Impulse 2, an aircraft that can fly for up to five days straight and will reportedly be able to fly around the world. The plane is an impressive feat of engineering, with wings as wide as a 747, but weighing only a little more than the average car. Tests of the aircraft will begin in a few weeks, with the round-the-world attempt planned for next March.
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Can you spot the human in this optical illusion?
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At first glance, this photo looks like a stunning Scarlet Macaw. Look closer. This species isn’t Ara macao, it’s Homo sapiens. If you look closely, you can see her right hand as the claw, her left arm wrapped over her head to look like the head and the beak. Her left leg is outstretched to serve as the tail, while her right leg is curled up on the post. The bright green eye is painted on her forehead. Artist Johannes Stoetter spent a month planning and executing this amazing photograph. For four hours, he painstakingly painted the model’s body with breathable paint in order to create the the beautiful details. ...
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Weirdest looking monkey you'll ever see
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This is a snub-nosed monkey. They are found in Asia, with a range covering southern China as well as the northern parts of Vietnam and Myanmar. These monkey get their name - you guessed it - from the short stump of a nose on their round face, with nostrils arranged forward. They have relatively multicolored and long fur, particularly at the shoulders and backs. They grow to a length of 51 to 83 cm with a tail of 55 to 97 cm.
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Stress alters children's DNA
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Stress affects children too. Children who grow up in stressful situations have shorter telomeres, an early sign of genetic ageing that makes them vulnerable to diseases such as cancer. Telomeres shrink when cells divide, but when they get too short, the cell can’t divide and dies.
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Beer companies are trying to get scientists drunk
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| After winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922, Carlsberg gave Niels Bohr a perpetual supply of beer. The brewing company had a pipeline running from the brewery to Bohr’s house, so that he could have fresh beer on tap all the time. |
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Hunting for honey
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This is what hunting for honey from a 90 metre cliff in Nepal looks like. This tradition has been held by the Gurung people of Nepal for thousands of years, and it's only going to get more dangerous, now that bee populations are dwindling around the world.
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Amazing trilobite beetle
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This is a trilobite beetle, found in lowland forests across Southeast Asia and India. Male and female trilobite beetles look so different from each other, that the only way researchers know they've found a pair from the same species is if they catch them mating!
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This moon looks like a ball of cheese
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The strangest moon in the Solar System is bright yellow. Taken by the Galileo spacecraft, this image shows Jupiter's moon, Io, and its incredibly bright colours derived from sulphur and molten silicate rock. Io is covered in volcanoes that are so active, they effectively turn the whole moon inside out. And some of Io's volcanic lava is so hot, it glows in the dark.
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This isn't a fancy dessert
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We know they kind of look and sound like a fancy dessert, but you won't find Little Egg Cowries on a dinner plate any time soon. In fact, you'll have a hard time finding them anywhere, because these spotty little sea creatures are masters of disguise. Through a process known as 'alimentary homochromy', they can change the colour, patterns, and shape of their flesh to perfectly mimic that of the coral and sea sponges around them.
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Pollen dipper
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Meet the pollen-gilded bat ( Phyllonycteris poeyi), really living up to its name. This species, from eastern Cuba, has specialised fur that grips onto pollen, creating a very handy moveable feast.
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