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Anguilla, a 15,000-person island, owns the .ai domain. Its annual revenue from it went from $2.9M (2018) to $86M (2025).

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This 1934 footage titled "Facts on friction" shows how Chevrolet brakes and in general how drum brakes work.

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Children as young as 8 in the US are being prescribed off-label GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, sparking debate about the potential long-term health effects

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This is a polyclad flatworm, a type of marine flatworm from the order Polycladida.

Its glass-like, translucent body reveals a striking tree-like network of highly branched digestive structures running throughout its body. These structures help distribute digested material, since flatworms lack a specialized circulatory system.

It lives on the seafloor and can glide across surfaces using tiny cilia and muscular movements, creating its graceful, rippling motion.

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A tree with just six known wild individuals left is being cloned to help prevent it from disappearing forever.

The Mongarlowe mallee (Eucalyptus recurva), found in southeastern Australia, is one of the world’s rarest eucalypts.

Its largest known individual has a woody underground structure called a lignotuber estimated to be 3,000–6,000 years old.

The six surviving wild individuals are widely separated, making cross-pollination extremely difficult and there are currently no wild seeds available.

Conservationists at the Australian National Botanic Gardens are therefore creating genetic copies by grafting cuttings from the wild trees onto rootstock.

So far, they have successfully produced multiple copies of four of the six wild individuals, creating an “insurance population” outside the wild.

The ultimate goal is to get the plants flowering, carefully pollinate them and produce genetically pure, viable seeds that could eventually help rebuild the population.

The challenge? The species can take up to 20 years to flower.

For now, these tiny nursery-grown trees may be one of the best chances of keeping an ancient species alive.

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Mercury disrupts aluminum's oxide layer, enabling it to react with air. This forms white, fibrous aluminum oxide, visibly growing as delicate structures.

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You'll never look at olive oil the same...🫒

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Amazing examples of laser cleaning.

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This is how geologists collect lava samples from an active volcano.

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The children from the Hadza tribe in Tanzania probably have the most difficult names to pronounce in the world.

In addition to vowels and consonants, their unique language contains clicking and guttural sounds, which also have specific meanings.

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Owl feathers can glow pink or magenta under ultraviolet (UV) light.

The glow comes from porphyrins, pigments naturally present in some owl feathers. When exposed to UV light, these pigments fluoresce, producing a striking pink or reddish glow.

As feathers age and wear, their porphyrins gradually break down, causing the intensity of their fluorescence to decrease. Researchers can use these differences to identify newly grown feathers and distinguish different generations of feathers across an owl’s wing.

These fluorescence patterns can also provide clues about a bird’s age by revealing its molt history.

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Hundreds of horses gallop across the Zhaosu Grassland in Xinjiang, guided by local herders.

This event, known as “A Thousand Steeds Galloping,” is a traditional horse-herding display that keeps the region’s long-standing horse culture alive.

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How engineers use anti-slide piles to stabilize slopes and reduce landslide risk.

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How South Korea’s Coast Guard officers train for search-and-rescue operations in simulated rough sea conditions.

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This is a firefly larva. Fireflies spend most of their lives beneath leaf litter and in the soil.
Most species remain in the larval stage for one to two years before emerging as adults, which typically live only a few weeks.

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Zalipie, a village in southern Poland where homes are decorated with colorful hand-painted floral folk art.

The tradition is believed to have begun over a century ago as a way to cover soot stains from wood-burning stoves and has since become part of the village’s cultural identity.

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Training a golden eagle for hunting as part of Kyrgyzstan’s centuries-old berkutchi tradition, where eagles are trained to work alongside their handlers.

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