Science in telegram

Giraffes are just as astonishing on the inside as they are to look at. Standing up to 19 feet tall, they require enormously high blood pressure to pump blood up to the head, yet they suffer few, if any, of the consequenc…

That’s how an ancient Egyptian door lock works. Not so different from a modern one, right? Pretty simple, but at the same time very thoughtful. The general principle has not changed since that time. And I wonder if there…

This is what the ancient Greek stadium looks like before and after the excavations. Thousands of people filled this stadium thousands of times over the centuries, and then it all just stopped and overgrown. You won’t eve…

These tiny orange glass balls are moon sand. Yes, sand from the moon magnified 340 times looks exactly like this. The Apollo 17 astronauts collected this "orange soil" on the rim of Shorty Crater in the Taurus-Littrow Va…

The manatee's lip pads are movable! And it surprises. Animals can grab various objects with them. Usually, they grab the vegetation they eat. But here, it seems, the manatee has confused the green hose with the plant. Ho…

Hawaii's White Sand Beaches Are Made From Parrotfish 💩 In Hawaii, where beaches are constantly ranked the best in the world, a significant portion of that pristine, white, beautiful sand is actually poop. Yep, 💩.. Parr…

How Much Would It Cost to Build the Great Pyramid Today? Even with cranes, helicopters, tractors and trucks at our disposal, it would be tough to construct the Great Pyramid of Giza today. Its construction 4,500 years ag…

​The Arctic Ocean, photographed in the same place 105 years ago and today. Both photos were taken during the summer season. Here is a link to the photographer Christian Aslund, this is his project. @science

Hyundai is actually building those wild unstoppable 4x4s on robot legs The goal here is to build the most unstoppable rough-terrain vehicles on the market. As such, these things will have four electrically driven wheels,…

Concrete is a very popular building material, enough so that one of its key ingredients – sand – is in increasingly short supply. Scientists are thus now exploring the possibility of replacing that sand with glass waste…

Remarkable new species of deep-sea crown jelly discovered in depths of Monterey Bay

Electric chopsticks that make low-salt food taste salty developed by Meiji University One of the big drags of getting older is not being able to eat with abandon any more. Nowadays just looking at the amount of salt my k…

The first vertical test shot of Green Launch's hydrogen-powered impulse launch cannon. The hydrogen cannon can be fired every 60-90 minutes, sending its hypersonic projectile skyward where it'll "penetrate the atmosphere…