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Compare smooth tubes (left) vs corrugated tubes (right). See how corrugation creates turbulence, breaks the laminar flow and hence provides better heat transfer rates than smooth tubes [source and full video: https://t.co/Eyo8PsXRQj]
This image of Jupiter in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope shows not only Jupiter and its clouds, but this ring as well. Also visible is Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) [read more: https://t.co/lpjuKOdjw4]
This map, spanning over 600 million light years on a side, shows that our Milky Way Galaxy is on the edge of the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies, which is connected to the Great Attractor -- an even larger grouping of galaxies [read more: https://t.co/xm78iTIcQE]
The little satellite that created the modern world, Telstar 1, was launched 60 years ago #Today https://t.co/PHIzEcq2qa
A world of languages - and how many speak them [source, read more: https://t.co/goSX1GKWQ4]
Stare at the red dot on her nose for 30 seconds, then look at a plain wall while blinking fast and discover what is an afterimage: https://t.co/CXH5fLI5iy
Botulinum toxin is the most poisonous substance known. It is estimated that a single gram of crystalline toxin, evenly dispersed & inhaled, can kill more than one million people and a couple of kg would kill every human on earth https://t.co/d41GjMkmlX [https://t.co/wlL22lkZiC]
The asteroid that created the Chicxulub crater, now widely accepted as responsible of the mass extinction event of the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary, caused tsunamis that rose to a height of 100 m and ejected 25 trillion tons of debris into the atmosphere https://t.co/khAaW0wxpt
This map shows the height of Earth’s forests, from stubby saplings to timbers towering more than 50 meters tall. It reveals some patterns you might expect, such as taller forests hugging the equator in the Amazon, central Africa, and Indonesia [read more: https://t.co/finuyhcWTH]
Chirality, in chemistry, is a property that's somewhat like ‘left-’ and ‘right-handedness'. For example there are artificial sweeteners that are left-handed, but despite being the same molecule, they cannot be absorbed by the human body, still being sweet https://t.co/mlJXzhd2jV