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The stick insect has one of the best camouflages in the world

Osaka’s radial floodgates 🌊🛡️ Unique arched barriers shield the city from typhoons & storm surges, engineering resilience against Japan’s extreme weather.

A man with a noticeable look of panic on his face is followed by African Wild Dogs.

Remember Dolly the cloned sheep? What happened to it? Where has cloning science reached? In the mid-1990s, cloning was a hot topic worldwide, and the fear of cloning humans triggered the creation of several films. More about cloning 🔽 bit.ly/4eW55Xd

The Tiger Beetle is fast; its speed is equivalent to a human sprinting at 700 km/h (435 mph)—its brain cannot process visual information fast enough, causing it to become temporarily blind.

How bones heal when they're broken or fractured

This swarm of bees is easily drawn into the box because their Queen is already inside.

The wood frog survives winters by freezing itself. Though their hearts stop and they no longer breathe, their cells avoid freezing to prevent death, with ice forming between cells. Found in North AMCA

Toyota debuts AI-powered basketball robot 🤖🏀 Using vision tech to read distance & angle, it nails shots with uncanny accuracy—blurring the line between sports & robotics.

Rare footage appears to show Ball Lightning in Alberta. It hovered for more than 20 seconds before disappearing.

This is a Bdelloid Rotifer, an aquatic microorganism with a chainsaw-like mouth.

The 9 founders of these Japanese companies

Robotics engineer shared this to highlight that robots aren’t truly mimicking humans—they’re trained to appear humanlike. In reality they can perform far stranger and far faster motions than we expect

A low-tech bird trap constructed with everyday materials—a cardboard box, string, and a plastic bottle—employing a gravity-driven trip-wire for activation.

How Different Headlights Shine.

This is what happens when a garlic extract comes into direct contact with a human parasite.

Rare footage appears to show Ball Lightning in Alberta. It hovered for more than 20 seconds before disappearing.

How bones heal when they're broken or fractured

A fossil of a turtle the size of a car was unearthed in South America. Right side of the image shows an adult man for comparison.

Osaka’s radial floodgates 🌊🛡️ Unique arched barriers shield the city from typhoons & storm surges, engineering resilience against Japan’s extreme weather.