Extreme close-up of a Space Shuttle launch.
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How big municipal pipelines are cleaned.
You are now listening to a relaxing frequency.
Take a moment to regulate your nervous system.
This sound aids in releasing happy hormones such as serotonin and endorphins naturally, regulating blood pressure and heart rate.
This is something everyone should know during an earthquake.
First video clip from the 7.5 magnitude quake in Japan on January 1, 2024.
360° holographic fan
The Pyramid of Khufu is approximately 147 meters (or 481 feet) tall.
It was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years until the construction of the Lincoln Cathedral in England in the XIV century CE.
The Iconic Trevi Fountain, Captured Beautifully 🇮🇹
It was designed by architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini in 1762.
A mirror in water splits sunlight into rainbow colors
How holes for screws are made
[📹 factory.cnc]
A beautiful way to explain chaos theory
10 pendulums begin almost identically, separated by only 1 degree, yet over time their motion becomes completely different.
[🎞️ thebrainmaze]
Real wasabi comes from a gnarly root that’s super rare, expensive, and basically impossible to grow outside Japan.
This chef carefully preps it for top-tier sushi.
[📹 sushi.yoshinaga]
A waterfall that looks like a silver curtain
The tides of the Qiantang river makes patterns exactly like a tree
The three-body problem stumped Isaac Newton and Henri Poincaré—the latter even laying the groundwork for chaos theory while trying to solve it.
A major breakthrough came in 2000, when Alain Chenciner and Richard Montgomery uncovered the famous figure-8 solution—shown in clip 4.
In 2013, Milan Šuvakov and Vladimir Dmitrašinović expanded the picture further, identifying 13 additional families of solutions.
Each clip represents a true numerical integration of Newton’s law of gravitation, F = G·m₁m₂/r², using equal masses—no tricks, no shortcuts.
It’s a reminder that mathematics dating back to 1687 still holds deep and unexpected surprises.
[🎞️ extract: From Infinity with Love]
Bom Jesus de Matozinhos Church in Barra do Guaicuí, Brazil.
Dating back to the late XVII century, it was built with sandstone blocks from the Três Marias Formation, Bambuí Group.
[📹 institutogeoatlantico]
Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced.
This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.
Visual proof that:
6 ⋅ (1² + 2² + ... + n²) = (n) (n+1) (2n+1)
[🎞️ Beau Janzen / reason4math]
Magnus effect visualized by a tennis ball
In 1923, aircraft were used to release titanium tetrachloride as a smokescreen to conceal ships at sea. When exposed to moisture in the air, the chemical produced a dense white cloud—made up not just of smoke, but fine droplets of hydrochloric acid and titanium oxychloride.
The most thrilling hiking route in China