The Natural History Museum in London is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items. Being a striking examples of Romanesque architecture, it is sometimes dubbed a cathedral of nature: this is its central hall [read more: https://t.co/1wGucvqN2L]
Some animals know very well how to take advantage of human technology: this pigeon spotted in The Netherlands using slipstreams to race cars on the highway at 100 km/h is a proof [source, full video: https://t.co/ZMoSv9pqb7]
This beautiful composite image by Franco Banfi showcases the beauty of Mexico’s Revillagigedo Archipelago both above and below the surface, one of the most unique and pristine island habitat that remains on Earth https://t.co/kYSSt2zbYg [read more: https://t.co/vg5gHx5IcC]
@FCBarcelona_es 🛑⚠️ | Are you waiting for another farce and disaster in order to end the stage of this quartet with the club , even Messi came out and these are continuing , shame on you , a great club is being destroyed in front of our eyes and the fans / members watch in silence 🤐
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Artist Kenichi Kanazawa might be well defined as a 'sound sculptor' as in this clip he gives a visual demonstration of the power of sound to put order into chaos [video: https://t.co/LwV8SSLpug] [read more about Chladni plates: https://t.co/KclxAqZz9y]
Anscombe's Quartet, the Datasaurus and the Datasaurus Dozen or why it can be difficult to demonstrate the importance of data visualization, why charts are not simply "pretty pictures" and why it's always better to plot your data [read more: https://t.co/F2YujomBJY]
This classic video by @tweetsauce explains how the Earth moves, orbiting at ~108,000 km/h around the Sun with the entire Solar System drifting ~70,000 km roughly in the direction of the bright star Vega [video: https://t.co/C6K19Sgn8A]
Despite you won't believe it immediately, these are four perfectly aligned circles and nothing is crossing anywhere [source, read more: https://t.co/gvtelmBDw1]
Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, a recent report has found. The huge loss is a tragedy in itself but also threatens the survival of civilisation, say the world’s leading scientists [read more: https://t.co/leGGQGacb9]
Water released from the Verbund Hydro Power dam, located in Austria. 20,000 liters per second, travelling at 50m/s with 190 m of water exerting pressure [watch more: https://t.co/HNfOW89klb]
A gray whale has swum the longest distance ever recorded in a marine vertebrate—more than 27,000 km. Spotted off Namibia in 2013, it's the first gray whale ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere and originated in the North Pacific [read more: https://t.co/9lknQ2sT07]
This is what happens when you dip dry ice in chocolate. Since dry ice sublimates, the parts where the chocolate would solidify or freeze, just evaporate creating a layer of CO₂ not allowing direct contact [source of the gif: https://t.co/YtBHL1v9YJ]
If you have a rope long enough to wrap around the entire circumference of the globe, the rope is 40,075 km long. If you want to lengthen the rope so that it can hover 1 meter off the ground at all points on Earth, it takes just 6.28 meters more of rope https://t.co/qzqeRCuyvO
Many cultures around the world refer to the Pleiades as "seven sisters" & also tell quite similar stories about them. There are clues to think that these stories may date back 100,000 years to a time when the cluster looked quite different [read more: https://t.co/S4he4pLGLJ]
Photographer Craig P. Burrows catches the unusual in the usual, small natural things: this spider web looks like a tiny Eiffel tower [source: https://t.co/EymJQ3UaNl]