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Box seat: scientists solve the mystery of why wombats have cube-shaped poo | Guardian
Unique physiology allows the Australian marsupial to produce square-shaped faeces that may aid communication How wombats produce their cube-shape poo has long been a biological puzzle but now an international study has provided the answer to this unusual natural phenomenon. … Continue reading
Finches Become “Flock of Songwriters” in Room Full of Electric Guitars
By Emma Taggart on January 27, 2021 This takes the term “songbird” to another level. When you think of bird songs you probably imagine sweet-sounding tweets, cheeps, and chirps. Our feathered friends can create beautiful sounds when they sing, … Continue reading
Willow sculpture by sculptor Katherine Miles titled: ‘Willow Sitting Hare sculpture (Listening Mad March)’.
Nov 10, 2019 – A sculpture titled ‘Willow Sitting Hare (Listening Mad March sculpture)’ by artist Katherine Miles in the category Wild Animals and Wild Life Sculptures. This sculpture has the dimensions of 100 x 40 x 50 cm and … Continue reading
A Playful Ghibli-esque Ad for Travel Oregon | Kottke
I cannot improve upon the succinct description of this video from Natalie Smillie: “A new Ghibli film?! No — this is an advert for the state of Oregon.” It’s a great ad and certainly takes both content and stylistic cues … Continue reading
Where do atoms come from?
Note: The graph at 7 mins 44 seconds has the axes labels mixed up! The horizontal axis shows the number of neutrons, and the vertical one the number of protons, not the other way round. Sorry about that!! Addendum to … Continue reading
Sci-Fi Short Film: “BYGONE” | DUST
An old man, with a receding memory, pays to view synthetic recreations of his mother and childhood. BYGONE by Nick Naum & Csaba Nagy
Earth Seems To Be Wobbling On Massive Gravitational Ripples
Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04496.pdf NANOGrav: http://nanograv.org/ Pulsar article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158… Picture credits: Dana Berry/NASA, https://mk0astronomynow9oh6g.kinstacd… Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time … Continue reading
Why cats are crazy for catnip
By Sofia MoutinhoJan. 20, 2021 , 2:00 PM Minty chemical in catniplike plant activates their opioid systems—and acts as a mosquito repellent Cat owners flood the internet with videos of their kitties euphorically rolling and flipping out over catnip-filled … Continue reading
Electric eels work together to zap prey
The electric predators work in groups to herd and “zap” their prey in unison, scientists shocked to discover. More than 200 years after the electric eel inspired the design of the first battery, it has been discovered that they … Continue reading
Australian lungfish has largest genome of any animal sequenced so far | New Scientist
By Donna Lu The Australian lungfish’s genome is around 14 times larger than the human one, and its DNA confirms it is closely related to land-based animals with a backbone The Australian lungfish has the largest genome of any animal … Continue reading
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