The Øresund Bridge is the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe and it goes from bridge to tunnel underwater [read more: https://t.co/6H5wavbUts]
Scientists attached stilts to the legs of ants to prove that they return to their nests by counting their steps. The ants on stilts walked right past the nest and got lost, proving that the change in legs' length, also changed the ants' count [read more: https://t.co/F29y4f1O1d]
While the rest of our body shrinks as we get older, our noses and ears keep getting bigger. That's because they're made mostly of cartilage cells [read more here: https://t.co/4K3afynz8a]
Created in 1960, the Pigg-O-Stat™ is still an all-in-one pediatric immobilization device designed for positioning infants and young children for an appropriate x-ray without significant complications [read more: https://t.co/NdTFb9PlUw]
Some 10 billion years ago, the Milky Way merged with a large galaxy. The stars from this partner, named Gaia-Enceladus, make up most of the Milky Way's halo and also shaped its thick disk, giving it its inflated form [read more: https://t.co/Wk2XMVb5mx]
European bison herds move by majority rule: each bison “votes” by facing the direction it wants to go, and the herd goes in the direction chosen by the largest number [full paper: https://t.co/EKgwlfG7Hr]
Monte Fitz Roy is a mountain in Patagonia, on the border between Argentina and Chile, which is 3,405 meter high [https://t.co/yx47wifa2I]. This impressive view has been captured by photographer Max Rive [source and more photos: https://t.co/buQxvVB6Hm]
Tigers' prey are deer, boars & other ungulates. These animals are dichromats or red-green blind. Scientists used a machine learning algorithm to simulate what the world looks like to dichromats. On the left, what a tiger looks like to a dichromat [paper: https://t.co/rEjuoojO36]
In geology, a mazuku (Swahili: evil wind) is a pocket of carbon dioxide-rich air that can be lethal to any human or animal life inside https://t.co/Vb20GfaQZn. This clip from PBS Nova "Volcano Under the City" shows how the smoke from a flare can expose one https://t.co/4vDNyOfkQY
Artist Strijdom van der Merwe shapes materials into geometrically attractive art that contrasts and complements the surrounding at the same time. His 'Staircase to Heaven' is a simple but impressive optical illusion [more: https://t.co/3jvcpMTXNW] [gif: https://t.co/nWbn7MTK1J]
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is the lead ship of her class of United States Navy aircraft carriers. Seen here while in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard drydock, it gives an idea of its scale vs humans [source: https://t.co/3rUD8Gx5OY]