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Nature stacking colors like layers of paint on this mountain

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Currents beneath a frozen waterfall in British Columbia slowly sculpt chunks of ice into perfect ice balls, one of winter’s rarest phenomena.

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The Strange History of Ginkgo Biloba: The Evolutionary Orphan

[…] ➡️ Up Next: Cinchona, The tree that kept us from going extinct ► • The Plant That Changed History Forever Imagine a tree that outlasted the dinosaurs, survived the ice age, and even bloomed after an atomic blast. The … Continue reading

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The Greater Wax Moth: this moth has the most sensitive hearing of any animal in the world, with its tiny ears detecting frequencies of up to 300,000Hz; just to put that into perspective, humans can detect frequencies as high as 20,000Hz, while dogs can detect up to 65,000Hz, and bats up to 210,000

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moon melting into lava

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Christopher D Bingham Photography (@cbinghamphoto.bsky.social) | Firefall, Yosemite 2/2025 Horsetail Falls, illuminated by the setting sun for a couple of weeks each February….

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Shuangru Mountain (literally “Double breast mountain”), in Guizhou, China

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splice is nice!! #science #biology #genetics #dna

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I Simulated Insect Vision and It Got WEIRD

Here’s what compound eyes really do — and why flies see you in slow motion. A few centuries ago, scientists believed insects saw thousands of tiny, repeated images — like a kaleidoscope of candle flames. But that’s not how compound … Continue reading

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Mahogany seed pod

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