The endless expanse of the ocean’s midnight zone offers plenty of room to stretch out. Here, some animals can grow to great lengths. Siphonophores are gelatinous animals composed of specialized parts... continue reading
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Biologists in New Zealand have found around 100 new species after exploring a rift some 5 kilometers beneath the sea. The organisms include some that scientists can't even identify, as well as a strange... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 month 1 week ago • 225 views • 2:07Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern (Merriam-Webster) This one minute film uses pareidolia as a tool to convey the importance... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 month 1 week ago • 230 views • 1:01In this video, we explore the fascinating story of the Brennan Monorail, an innovative train from the early 1900s designed by Louis Brennan. This monorail defied conventional physics by balancing on a... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 months 1 week ago • 83 views • 8:33Two bears ended up in a deadly fight in Spain's Cantabrian mountains, which are home to around 350 bears. Video footage shows a female bear protecting her cub from a larger male before both fighting... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 months ago • 249 views • 1:46Several things you never wanted to know about wombats; mostly focused around the rear half rather than the 'wom'.
posted by noims 7 months ago • 45 views • 2:41This deepsea Octopus (or Squid) was filmed in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico by a work class ROV. At first we believed this to be a Cirrate Octopus, but now we believe it to be a Vampire Squid/Umbrella... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 4 weeks ago • 75 views • 2:12From YouTube, In this lab, they use different flow visualization techniques to help detect contraband and residues and develop trace particle detection methods... Thanks to Rich Press and NIST for... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 1 year 4 months ago • 202 views • 21:48From YouTube, "The Earth is a gigantic ball of semi-molten rock, with a heart of iron as hot as the surface of the Sun. Titanic amounts of heat left over from its birth and the radioactive decay of trillions... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 1 year 6 months 1 week ago • 354 views • 11:59I used the *Wilhelm tag because I am damn sure I heard someone in the background around @8:23 wilhelm scream
posted by BoneRemake 1 year 6 months 1 week ago • 114 views • 19:34One home went undamaged when all the homes around it were badly damaged or completely washed away. Similar look to the last house standing in Mexico Beach after Hurricane Michael. It clearly has high end... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago • 419 views • 1:19Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 year 11 months 1 week ago • 225 views • 9:55Artemis 1: Which will consist of an uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion spacecraft around the Moon, where the next generation of spacecraft that will take humans to the... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 2 weeks ago • 59 views • 12:48Fun with Acronyms: "Maths" sands for "Mathematical Anti-Telharsic Harfatum Septomin".
posted by simonm 2 years 3 weeks ago • 59 viewsDorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 — two months... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 82 views • 14:39This crew was living in a pile of furniture behind an apartment building in Brooklyn, NY. It's a very common scene during the summer months - so what do you do? This video walks through the steps you... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 4 months ago • 96 views • 14:40How do you rebuild one of the biggest spillways in the world after a catastrophic failure with the next flood season right around the corner? This video covers the engineering and construction required... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 4 months ago • 280 views • 20:38Instead of shipping food all around the world, imagine your own food coming from your farm in a shipping container, just outside your backdoor. That’s the vision of FarmPod, a St. Croix-based startup... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 18 views • 6:56In this Dog Nation Episode, I give some Take Home Tips in Los Angeles! 00:50 - How To Create Boundaries Around Food 03:45 - This Dog Chases Everything! 06:00 - This Dog Attacks the Vacuum! 08:20... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 7 months ago • 100 views • 10:51YouTube description: Check out Otherwords, a new show about language & linguistics! https://youtu.be/d2UccTPnl4w It might surprise you but cephalopods have a pretty good fossil record, with one major... continue reading
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