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Engineer. Selecting and curating pictures and videos trying to awaken your sense of wonder. Science, tech, art, weather, space, the unusual around us.
Italy, North by Northwest
Joined August 2010
A patient has been cured of HIV. A German man has become the seventh person in history to be declared cured of HIV after a stem cell transplant—achieving a historic first in the process. Unlike the previous six known cures, which all relied on donor cells carrying a rare double
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A brain-eating amoeba has killed almost everyone it’s infected. This single-celled predator lives in warm freshwater—lakes, rivers, ponds, hot springs, and even poorly maintained swimming pools. Infections are mercifully rare, but when they occur, survival is almost unheard of.
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The Iguazu falls, between Argentina and Brazil, with their total width of 2.7 kilometres and their average flow rate of 1,756 m³/s, are the largest waterfalls system in the world. [📹Otabek_Juraew] https://t.co/hAWq8H9ln4
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A never-before-seen strain of bacteria evolved on China’s Tiangong space station. A newly discovered microbe aboard China’s Tiangong space station, named Niallia tiangongensis, is essentially a space-hardened version of a common Earth bacterium normally found in soil and
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The last full moon of the year reaches its highest point – tonight. The final full moon of 2025 is set to steal the show by breaking two impressive records at once. December’s Cold Supermoon will appear larger and brighter than nearly any other full moon this year, while also
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A reset button for rotation could change how we control them all. Is it possible to cancel out a complicated spin without painstakingly reversing every single move? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. Mathematicians Jean-Pierre Eckmann (University of Geneva) and Tsvi Tlusty
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Learn how to tie your shoes like a pro with a secret technique. [📹 girlyglamfiles] https://t.co/BZEfO3lFqg
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Fish ladders are an adaption of the Tesla valve and allow fish to migrate past a dam without impeding the dam’s function
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Kiley has Williams Syndrome, a genetic disorder causing developmental delays: she struggles to make friends. This is the precious moment when two friends she met at camp drove 3 hours to surprise her on her 15th birthday. [📹 ashleyy_crisp] https://t.co/7RqrnurWVE
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The moment a roadway in Bener Meriah, Aceh, Indonesia suddenly collapses after days of heavy rain [📹 Muhammad_Azhari12] https://t.co/YNSGKHePpz
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Man in Indonesia captured exact moment a volcano erupted within its caldera https://t.co/uXx0HQZdrw
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Never forget the moment a fan won $75,000 and got tackled by Lebron in the same 10 seconds
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Microsoft invested two years and about $1 billion developing the Kin, a line of mobile phones that was briefly sold in 2010. After only 48 days on the market, Microsoft discontinued it due to poor sales, They blamed Verizon for not promoting the phones actively enough.
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This is Valerie. She survived alone for 529 days in the Australian bush after she ran away during a camping trip to Kangaroo Island in southern Australia. She was eventually spotted and captured (after two months of trying) before being returned to her owners.
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A new ‘PERCY JACKSON’ billboard includes a physical waterfall effect https://t.co/GJ9A4Dm3JF
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