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Bioluminescent Phytoplankton, Vaadhoo Island
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The physics behind raindrops. If I were to ask you to picture in your head the shape of a raindrop you’d probably think about the standard, idealized almost pear shaped tear drop. This however is no more accurate a depiction of rain as those drawings of hearts or atoms. In reality water flattens out due to the force of the air rushing past and this effect only becomes more noticeable as the size increases. In fact smaller droplets of rain are almost totally spherical but as the size increases they get flatter and wider. Raindrops larger than about 4.5 mm however are torn apart by this force and bulge out the back, being thicker at the bottom edge. This causes them to disperse into smaller raindrops once again until they either hit the ground or join back up with other droplets and the process is repeated.
Blue Dragon Nudibranch / They feed on the poisonous Man of War Jellyfish, collecting the animal's toxins and storing them in little sacs on the end of their feather-like "fingers." The Blue Dragon can produce a much more powerful and deadly sting than the Man of War due to its ability to store the poison.
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The saying 'you are what you eat' is true for these insects as stunning pictures show their abdomens changing colour as they sip on sugar drops.
A Sniper Rifle Shooting Eggs from The Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myrhvold. Photo by Ryan Matthew Smith #Eggs #Photography #The_Modernist_Cuisine #Nathan_Myrhvold #Ryan_Matthew_Smith
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There was a moment in my life when everything seemed perfect and nothing was behind us, nothing in front of us. It was was when we were in the tighness of nature, the wetness of river, the flow of the trees and the crisp morning sky. It was when we had let go of things to do and become nothing but Us.
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Argentine floodplain along the Parana River, as viewed by NASA from space. Cool.
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In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .
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“The human heart stripped of fat and muscle, with just the angel veins exposed.”
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A series of 32 photographs of tree nurseries and grid forests in the Netherlands by Dutch photographer Gerco de Ruijter
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