Dragonflies Take their Daily Shower

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Stunning images of dragonflies and flies frozen in time as they appear to by crystalised by the morning dew. The tiny droplets of water magnify the dragonflies’ beauty and reveal the details and bright red, orange, green and blue colours of the flying insects.

Macro photography requires a decent light-source – and in this case it is the jewel-like droplets which capture the light so essential for these works of art. VIA: –PRESURFER

The Hardest to find thing in the Universe?

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What is rarer than a shooting star?

Rarer than a diamond?

Rarer than any metal, any mineral, so rare that if you scan the entire earth, all six million billion billion kilos or 13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds of our planet, you would find only one ounce of it?

What is so rare it has never been seen directly, because if you could get enough of it together, it would self-vaporize from its own radioactive heat?

Spiders use Electrical Attraction to Lure Prey

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A recent study published in Scientific Reports, an online science journal, revealed that webs of the common garden spider – made from silk thread – are attracted to electrostatically charged objects. Honeybees and fruit flies, for example, generate an electric charge when they flap their wings.

Positively charged insects and water droplets falling towards a grounded orb web reveal rapid and substantial web attraction. Radial and particularly spiral silk threads are quickly attracted to the electrified bodies. VIA: –PRESURFER

Artist Turns Dead Trees into Artwork

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Not many took notice when the first wooden masterpieces started showing up in various areas of Simferopol, but in time the city became filled with them, and people began wondering who was behind them?

Bristlecone Pines – The Oldest Trees on Earth

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The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines, or Pinus longaeva, is a long-living species of tree found in the higher mountains of the southwest United States. Bristlecone pines grow in isolated groves in the arid mountain regions of six western states of America, but the oldest are found in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of California. These trees have a remarkable ability to survive in extremely harsh and challenging environment. In fact, they are believed to be the some of oldest living organisms in the world, with lifespans in excess of 5,000 years.