terra-mater:

15 amazing things in nature you won’t believe actually exist

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Neptune and Triton. Voyager 2, August 31, 1989. 2011.

nbcnews:

NASA names eight new astronaut trainees — half of them women

(Photos: NASA)

NASA has picked eight Americans, a mix of scientists and military pilots, to begin training for future space missions that may one day launch them all the way to Mars. The new class includes four men and four women who will join the 49 active astronauts at the agency’s astronaut corps at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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seizure7:

alwaysjadelianne:

Endless list of songs I can lost myself into, body and soul, for hours :

↳ Woodkid - Iron

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iheartgeek:

As promised, Photoset of Tardis motorcycle. Pictures courtesy of LejonAJohnson and Photo Knight on Flickr.

orcses:

coming soon to a computer screen near you 
Lonesome Dreams
that Inception AU fic by Katy where Kirk extracts, Sulu runs point, Chekov builds, Uhura forges, Bones mixes chemicals, Spock invades dreams, Scotty tags along, and Marcus sells secrets to the militant Klingon Corporation 
alternatively, the best dreamsharing team in the world hunt down the mole responsible for sending one of their own into limbo in the dream world and a coma in the real world

nbcnews:

Manhattanhenge! A skyscraper sunset stops traffic in New York City

(Photo: Edgar Gonzalez via Flickr)

New Yorkers were wowed on Wednesday by a sunset that was perfectly framed by skyscrapers, thanks to an urban astronomical phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge.

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A vertical forest is expected to be completed this year in Milan. There are two tower apartment complexes which contain a total of 400 residential units. The facade of the buildings will be covered with 730 trees, 5,000 shrubs, and 11,000 perennial plants. It is expected to have the same ecological impact as 10,000 square meters of forest.

Aside from fighting smog and producing oxygen, the foliage is expected to provide insulation to the residential units.

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murrayscheese:

guardian:

With a disputed history dating back to at least the 1800s, the annual Cooper’s Hill cheese rolling involves hordes of fearless competitors chasing an eight pound double gloucester cheese down a steep hill.

This year, would you believe, the competition was won by an American. See the full gallery here.

Photographs: Matt Cardy (top) and Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images

An American won the cheese rolling competition!

spaceplasma:

Dirty thunderstorms

A dirty thunderstorm (also, Volcanic lightning) is a weather phenomenon that occurs when lightning is produced in a volcanic plume. A study in the journal Science indicated that electrical charges are generated when rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in a volcanic plume collide and produce static charges, just as ice particles collide in regular thunderstorms.

nbcnews:

Teen’s invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds

(Photo: Intel)

Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student’s invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds.

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epic-enter:

By Paul Shipper

sugarblaster:

nocturnofshadow:

redfruitwhiteseeds:

buttless-butler:

Two-face from DC Comics

By Meagan Marie

Impressive makeup work!

OH MY GOD 

this is a fantastic cosplay

well done, my dear

BOSS

brain-rain:

“Out of this world, quite literally: The beautiful and mysterious Fukang meteorite” - “Within the rock, translucent golden crystals of a mineral called olivine gleamed among a silvery honeycomb of nickel-iron.”