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Earth's molten core may be leaking iron, according to researchers who analyzed how iron behaves inside our planet. At the boundary between the liquid iron core and the rocky mantle the temperature drops by more than a thousand degrees https://t.co/44HbxFlqOs
Monkeys develop protective antibodies to SARS-CoV-2: a small study of macaques finds they don’t develop a coronavirus infection the second time they are exposed, supporting the idea of using plasma from recovered patients as a treatment for COVID-19 https://t.co/UBDJoNa6FO
Sand strikers, also known as bobbit worms, are primitive-looking creatures that lack eyes or even a brain. Despite this they are savage predators https://t.co/PwfTQ664sS
Cordillera. How the tenuous gradations of light and mist visualize the depths and the distances in this remarkable photo by Karsten Hoenack taken while flying just few minutes from Monterrey, Mexico https://t.co/dEewv2LA24
Billed as the world’s largest open access digital archive dedicated to life on Earth, the Biodiversity Heritage Library has at least 150,000 illustrations available for free download in high-resolution files https://t.co/yys7ryR4xQ
Tom Hegen, a photographer whose aerial photography projects show the impact of human intervention on Earth, captured expansive views of Dutch greenhouse complexes from more than 500 m in the air, out the open door of a chartered helicopter https://t.co/wNrYO7ZjA4
People often confuse the positions of knee and the ankle in most animals. Counscious of this, illustrator Satoshi Kawasaki imagined what would happen if human legs were drawn using animals' skeletons as a base.
[human -> dog -> horse -> flamingo]
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At first glance this photos by Andre Ermolaev looks like a twisting abstract painting, but in reality it's an aerial photo of rivers flowing through Iceland’s endless beds of volcanic ash [more pictures: https://t.co/WbuPYPMOzG]
The number of finger joints on each hand (excluding the thumb) makes it possible to count to 12 by using the thumb. Egyptians and Babylonians were fond of counting in base twelve like this and this is why we have 24 hours in a day & 60 minutes in an hour https://t.co/zIZ5sMvBZq
The largest void in the universe is 2 billion light years in diameter and is a huge empty region largely devoid of galaxies, stars and planets. Except for the Milky Way, the Local Group, and a larger part of the Laniakea Supercluster https://t.co/USUYGnvXws