When lightning hits a tree, the current creates intense heating, the moist tissue just under the bark is heated up, (these tissues carry water and carbohydrates)
The resulting steam and pressure causes the bark to explode off
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The wrath of the golden-tailed gecko
This gheko (Strophurus taenicauda) is named after the golden stripe which adults develop down their tail
It is this tail that acts like a missile launcher for a spray of foul smelling liquid produced in self defence
Striking one tuning fork sets up a sympathetic vibration in the other, even though there is no physical contact between the two units
this sympathetic resonance is seen here using a ping pong ball, which unambiguously moves. 1/🧵
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Внаслідок ракетного удару по Києву загинула співробітниця "Радіо Свобода" Віра Гирич, повідомило видання. "Точна російська ракета потрапила у її будинок, Віра пролежала там всю ніч, а знайшли її лише зранку", - написав її колега Олександр Демченко.
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a remarkable insight into the fundamental structure of matter
Often these type of videos zoom outward into the universe, making you feel insignificant, this has the opposite effect
Journey into the heart of matter
The strange numbers that birthed modern Algebra. The 19th-century discovery of numbers called “quaternions” gave mathematicians a way to describe rotations in space, forever changing physics and math [read more: https://t.co/pkDDtEegZu]
These fins are evolved for walking
This is the climbing perch (Anabas testudineus) maneuvering on land, using a supplemental breathing structure, called the labyrinth
Several species of fish are amphibious, meaning they can survive out of water 1/🧵
There is a small town in India, nestled at the bottom of green hills, this town is called Dawki, in the Indian state of Meghalaya
And a river runs through it
Renowned for its transparency, a serene mirror to the local people who strive keep it so clean
Designer & inventor Tom Lawton (@tomlawton) creates impressive kinetic sculptures (often wind or solar powered). This is Wonder, a meditative moving sculpture whose aim is to show how everything is interconnected [read more, order: https://t.co/74rE1k0wmM]
That blue dot
That is a whale negotiating heavy vessel traffic as it feeds, what you are seeing is one week of its life under this stress
In the South Pacific alone, up to 1000 vessels can over lap the feeding areas of endangered whales 1/🧵
Seeing rockets land has now become a very monotonous sighting, similar to that of seeing airplanes land. Essentially a few years ago no one could even imagine rockets landing & being reused. SpaceX and @elonmusk made it possible. It is reusable rockets that will get us to Mars.
When a huge mass of ice detaches from an iceberg, it falls then resurfaces dramatically like a colossal pillar
The ice is made from fresh water, so is less dense than the saline ocean in which it floats 1/🧵
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У Талліні під посольством росії влаштували акцію у знак протесту проти масових згвалтувань російськими військовими українських жінок.
Моторошно і сильно — одночасно.