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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." - Albert Einstein

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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.
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Mesmerizing malachite crystals.
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Fascinating drone footage looking down into a volcanic eruption from above. Credit: Bjorn Steinbekk
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This is what happens when you wring out a wet towel while floating in space. Credit: CSA/NASA
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A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as EVNautilus encounter the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.
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Rare footage of a moose shedding both its antlers captured with a drone in a forest in New Brunswick. Credit: Derek Burgoyne
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Baby elephants don't learn to control their trunks until they’re about a year old.
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The surface of Mars as seen by Curiosity Rover with the sound of the Martian winds captured by InSight lander. Credit: NASA​/​JPL-Caltech​/​MSSS
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This is how geologists collect lava samples from an active volcano.
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Spectacular timelapse of a SpaceX launch over downtown Los Angeles.
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This is not a time-lapse video. Amazing footage of a river of lava moving at an incredible speed captured by photographer Ken Boyer.
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Fascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope. Credit: David Rogers
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Mercury is so dense an iron anvil floats in it. Credit: Cody'sLab
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A whale shark gliding through bioluminescent algae appears to be swimming in space. Credit: Mike Nulty
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A stunning cloudburst over Lake Millstatt, Austria captured by photographer Peter Maier.
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A cheetah running at full speed covers about 7m (23 ft) with each stride.
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Cheetahs don't roar, they meow and purr like house cats. Full video:
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Deer bouncing across an empty beach at dawn. Credit: Dave Mott
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A panoramic view from the surface of Mars captured by Curiosity rover.
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Watch a pygmy marmoset completely fascinated by an insect in this clip from "Tiny World".
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This ferrofluid audio-visualizer created by artist Dakd Jung dances to the music.
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An incredible example of color changing and camouflage by an octopus filmed off the coast of Mozambique. Credit: Nick Ruberg
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Seals are the dogs of the sea.
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A stunning example of cloud iridescence, caused by small ice crystals scattering the sun's rays, filmed in Narathiwat, Thailand. Credit: Orawan Thongchinda
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Earth at night viewed from space.
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Amazing octopus stretching its tentacles to form a huge balloon filmed by EVNautilus at a depth of around 1,600 meters (5,250 feet).
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The biggest volcanic eruption ever seen from space, captured by two different satellites on January 15, 2022. 4K version on Youtube:
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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
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A beautiful "firefall" created by the setting sun illuminating Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park.
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Snow falling on crystal clear Alaskan glacial melt water captured by photographer John Derting.
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Earth's rotation visualized in a stunning timelapse that follows a fixed point in the sky. Credit: Martin Giraud
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The violent eruption a few hours ago of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano captured by satellites GOES-West and Himawari-8.
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Polar bear cub surprised by a seal. Credit: BBC
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Incredible footage of Saturn rising from behind the Moon during a lunar occultation, captured from a ground based telescope by astronomer Jan Koet. Source:
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This is how jets refuel in midair.
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When a camera's frame rate matches a bird's wing flaps. 📽: GingerBeard/YT
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Tigers are proficient swimmers and have been observed crossing rivers as wide 7 km (4.3 miles).
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A 22-million-year-old termite preserved in amber. Credit: Rocks for the Spirit
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The stunning colors of the Anna's hummingbird are iridescence caused by light scattering from nanoscale structures within their feathers.
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The magical Stuðlagil Canyon in Iceland looks like another planet. via h0rdur/ig
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Mesmerizing grass waves as wind blows across the hills of Bologna, Italy, captured by photographer Dorian Pellumbi.
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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
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This is how scallops swim. Credit: Jules Casey
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This is not a time-lapse video. Amazing footage of a river of lava moving at an incredible speed captured by photographer Ken Boyer. Full video:
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Snow falling on crystal clear Alaskan glacial melt water captured by photographer John Derting.
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Fascinating timelapse of a salamander growing from a single cell, into a complete, complex living organism over three weeks. Credit: Jan van IJken
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Stunning banner cloud over the Rock of Gibraltar.
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This is how an Aurora is created. Credit: Per Byhring/UiO
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Incredible close encounter with a humpback whale. Credit: Cassie Jensen
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Non-Newtonian fluids turn into solids when pressure is applied. Credit: UChicago
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The largest animal ever to have lived, the majestic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus). 🐳 via dolphindronedom/IG
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Seals are the dogs of the sea.
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The speed of light visualized on a world map. Credit: @PhysicsJ
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Reindeer beneath the Northern Lights. Credit: Aurora Borealis Observatory
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Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift apart, a behavior known as rafting. Credit: Vancouver Aquarium
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Mount Fuji seen from the International Space Station.
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Amazing octopus stretching its tentacles to form a huge balloon filmed by EVNautilus at a depth of around 1,600 meters (5,250 feet).
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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.
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Sunset from space.
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The sound of a snoring hummingbird.
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Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift apart, a behavior known as rafting. Credit: Vancouver Aquarium
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Earth at night viewed from space.
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A magical sunset over a sea of clouds filmed in timelapse by Tristan Heth.
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Sunset from space.
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A seal sleeping peacefully in a kelp forest, filmed off Lundy Island, UK. Credit: Kaushiik Subramaniam
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This clever little caterpillar makes a leaf tent so it can eat in peace. Credit: BBC
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The resurrection plant (Selaginella lepidophylla) can survive years of drought and almost complete desiccation, coming back to life after exposure to moisture.
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Photographer encounters a wild white Arctic Fox in Greenland. 🦊 Via stefan_forster_photography/IG
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This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away; the Cassini spacecraft spots a pale blue dot beneath Saturn's rings.
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Mushrooms release millions of microscopic spores into the wind to propagate. Credit: Villareal C. Jojo
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Incredible close up video of a tornado forming.
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A juvenile Victoria's Riflebird performs his elaborate courtship dance to an unimpressed female. 📹:travelandwildlifephotography/ig
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Amazing close-up footage of a massive battle-scarred great white shark off southern Australia. Credit: Dean Spraakman
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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
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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 ).
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A stunning cloudburst over Lake Millstatt, Austria captured by photographer Peter Maier. Full video:
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Autonomous sumo robots have some amazing moves.
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A unique encounter between a cat and a dolphin. Credit: Theater of the Sea
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Obsidian is a natural volcanic glass formed when lava high in silica cools quickly preventing crystal growth. Credit: Outlaw Rocks
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The mesmerizing fluid-like motion in a flock of sheep seen from a drone as working dogs gather them for shearing. Credit: Matt Bircham
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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.
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The amazing head stabilization of a hunting kestrel.
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Spectacular lightning storm over Western Australia filmed in timelapse by photographer Geoff Green.
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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
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Look closely... that is not a spider. The spider-tailed horned viper uses the tip of its tail to lure birds.
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Earth at night viewed from space.
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A peaceful moment in the snow with the largest trees in the world, the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), captured by photographer Michael Block.
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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. Source:
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Spectacular lightning storm over Western Australia filmed in timelapse by photographer Geoff Green.
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Flying over the Earth at night in the International Space Station, from Shanghai to South Korea.
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Mount Etna blowing perfect smoke rings during a volcanic eruption. Credit: Geoff Mackley
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