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The Pharaoh's Serpent's Never Ending Chemical Reaction Is Always So Gross
Even though it looks like the devil is reaching through the ground from underneath the Earth to grab a victim, you can’t look away. Even though it looks like some alien tentacle snake is burning itself and trying to attack you, you can’t help but stare. It’s the Pharaoh’s Serpent (or Black Snake firework) and it’s an old science experiment that’s always so, so gross to look at. The disgusting, growing mutant arm coil thing is actually just Mercury thiocyanate (Hg(SCN)2) getting lit on fire.
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The Logic-Defying Double-Slit Experiment Is Even Weirder Than You Thought
Just by observing the process of the experiment, everything changes.
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Quantum trick sees two things happen before and after each other
By placing the order of two events into a quantum superposition, physicists have probed the nature of causality
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The dying art of skywriting.
Everyone loves a message in the clouds, but very few people can make them like they used to.
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Fly Geyser
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
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This church might not look like anything special, until you see it from different angles.
This church in Borgloon, Belgium. It doesn't look like anything special, it consists of 100 layers of stacked steel, that are equidistantly staggered in a way that illusively change in appearance based on where the viewer is standing.
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How evolution has equipped our hands with five fingers
Have you ever wondered why our hands have exactly five fingers? Scientists have uncovered a part of this mystery, and their remarkable discovery is outlined in a new report.
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Map of the world's countries rearranged by population.
What if the world were rearranged so that the inhabitants of the country with the largest population would move to the country with the largest area? And the second-largest population would migrate to the second-largest country, and so on? The result would be this disconcerting, disorienting map.
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Shipping from space.
Ninety percent of everything we buy comes to us by ship. Ships bring us food, clothing cars, and our electronics. It is the vehicle of global trade. No shipping, no globalization. Because of their size and the immense amount of fuel they burn, ships belong to one of the most polluting industries in the world. Ships are allowed to burn the dirtiest fuel on the planet.
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'Ant-like' bees among new desert species identified by USU entomologist
Though declines in bee populations have heightened awareness of the importance of pollinating insects to the world's food supply, numerous bee species remain undescribed or poorly understood. Utah State University entomologist Zach Portman studies a diverse group of solitary, desert bees that aren't major pollinators of agricultural crops, but fill an important role in natural ecosystems of the American Southwest, including the sizzling sand dunes of California's Death Valley.
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Art of the marbler
A 1970s educational film about the fine art of paper marbling.
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This explorer discovered human time warp by living in a cave
On July 16, 1962, French geologist Michel Siffre entered a darkened cave where he planned to remain for two months. Tracking the days according to his sleep patterns (one night’s sleep equals one day), he believed his underground stay was ending on Aug. 20. Instead, when he emerged it was Sept. 14 — 25 days later.
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Creative People Have Better Connected Brains
A new study reports highly creative people appear to have more connections between their brain hemispheres.
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Traces of Earth's original crust found in Canadian Shield
Researchers have found traces of Earth's crust in the Canadian Shield dating back 4.2 billion years, when our planet was in its infancy. Earth's composition is unlike any other known planet or moon, with rocky crusts forming and moving over the surface. Over time, this has forced older evidence of such crusts — both oceanic and continental — deep below the surface.
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First evidence for higher state of consciousness found
Scientific evidence of a ‘higher’ state of consciousness has been found in a study led by the University of Sussex.
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Super satisfying video of a woodcarver making 'Fibonacci' spiral shavings
In this all too brief video woodworker Paul Sellers gives us a close-up view as he creates a number of ultra satisfying 'Fibonacci' spiral shavings. Between the soothing music, camerawork, and the mathematical perfection of each spiral as it rises from the wood, I could watch something like this all
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Rats Can Feel Regret Like Humans, Study Reveals
Rats can feel regret - a cognitive behavior once thought to be uniquely human.
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The sea was never blue.
Today, no one thinks there has been a stage in humanity when some colours were not yet being perceived. Plato’s list of primary colours includes white, black, red, and the ‘brilliant and shining’, to us, not a colour at all.
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Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori paints three-dimensional goldfish.
The fish are painted meticulously, layer by layer, the sandwiched slices revealing slightly more about each creature, similar to the function of a 3D printer.
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Decadent pastries formed from porcelain and glass.
Shayna Leib is a glass artist with 20 years experience in the field to-date.
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