These 'Beach Animals' were created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering. The kinetic structures walk on their own and get all their energy from the wind.
A stunning example of cloud iridescence, caused by small ice crystals scattering the sun's rays, filmed in Narathiwat, Thailand.
Credit: Orawan Thongchinda
Sea otter mothers give their pups almost constant attention, carrying it on her belly away from the cold water, grooming its fur, and letting the pup nurse or sleep.
Credit: Connie Levenhagen Niemi
Incredible footage of Saturn rising from behind the Moon during a lunar occultation, captured from a ground based telescope by astronomer Jan Koet.
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The web of the spiny orb-weaver spider is an amazing feat of engineering, built from multiple types of silk, each with a particular function.
Credit: Rachel Barry
In the world's largest vacuum chamber, a bowling ball and feathers are used for a real-life demonstration of a concept Galileo first proposed over 400 years ago.
The resurrection plant (Selaginella lepidophylla) can survive years of drought and almost complete desiccation, coming back to life after exposure to moisture.
This is the only known footage to exist of the incredibly rare box jellyfish Chirodectes maculatus, encountered off the coast of Papua New Guinea.
Credit: Scuba Ventures
This beautiful timelapse with the Milky Way stabilized is a reminder that the Earth is spinning through space.
Captured at Crater Lake, Oregon by photographer Eric Brummel (
@Brummo
).
The beautiful opalescent nudibranch (Hermissenda opalescens), one of the most colorful species of sea slug, filmed off the coast of California by Aron Sanchez-Baranda.
This isn't CGI, it's a real-life creature known as a sea angel (Clione limacina) found in the cold waters of the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans.
Credit: Alexander Semenov
A peaceful moment in the snow with the largest trees in the world, the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), captured by photographer Michael Block.
This is what Tesla Autopilot sees using neural networks that take 70,000 GPU hours to train and output 1,000 tensors (predictions) at each timestep.
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