The Vortex At Saturn’s North Pole, Observed By The Cassini Space Probe On December 30, 2013.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

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Stretchable Electronics

EPFL researchers have developed conductive tracks that can be bent and stretched up to four times their original length. They could be used in artificial skin, connected clothing and on-body sensors. (Video)

Sir David Attenborough demonstrates the accuracy of the Mozambique Spitting Cobra’s venom streams by wearing a chemically treated visor that makes the venom turn purple on contact.

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The VLT Survey Telescope at ESOs Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured this richly detailed new image of the Lagoon Nebula

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One Yowah nut, bisected

One of many opal mining sites in the red continent is called Yowah, and is famous for its opal nuts, veins of precious glowing opal within nodules of siliceous ironstone that often form amazing patterns. They vary from 0.5 to 20 cm across, and occur in an iron rich sandstone, near the border with an adjoining mudstone.

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Icebergs are formed when large blocks of ice breaks off from glaciers ice shelf and is floating in open water. Because glaciers are built up from snow falling on the Antarctic continent over millennia, this ice consists of pure fresh water. This floating chunk of freshwater ice then interacts with seawater beneath them it.

As seawater is drawn deep under the ice shelves by the oceanic currents, it becomes supercooled and freezes to the base of the ice shelf. Because this ice is formed from seawater that contains organic matter and minerals it causes variety of colour and texture to the iceberg. As the bergs become fragmented and sculpted by the wind and waves, the different coloured layers can develop striking patterns.

Striped icebergs in a variety of colours, including brown, black, yellow, and blue has been spotted in freezing waters around Antarctica. (Source)

A pediatrician shows how to calm a crying baby (Video)

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