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Amazing canyons lost when Lake Powell was dammed in 1963 are starting to reappear due to extreme drought.

https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/short-film-showcase/00000167-9990-d381-a967-bdbc789d0000

http://www.sciencedump.com/sites/www.sciencedump.com/files/999c4bbba63841afb1e33452e7fd8c60.jpg

orcas nuzzling (or maybe playfully head-butting) each other. Orcas spend their entire lives in family pods, which in some cases can be an entire century.

Despite being apex predators, the orcas are disturbed by vehicles that get too close, leading NOAA to warn drone owners to keep their distance.

 

 

via Orcas Tracked From Above | IFLScience.

Photograph the sun at the same time every day for a year, and this is the pattern you will see.  It’s called an Analemma.

Source: http://www.weatherscapes.com/photo.php?cat=photo_month&id=w-0921-12

The rover just finished its first martian birthday.  That means it has been operating on Mars successfully for 687 Earth days.

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/june/nasa-s-mars-curiosity-rover-marks-first-martian-year-with-mission-successes/

SicScience attended a BrisScience presentation on bee navigation last night.   The presentation was really interesting and had lot of experiments and robotics.   You can read more about the research in the link below.  A video will be posted soon.

http://brisscience.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/monday-23-june-2014/

The Three Gorges Dam is really an engineering marvel.  Both this infographic and the documentary are worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCQFZgm2OI4

Did you know when you burn something you can determine what it is made from by the light that is emitted?

Swedish physicist Angstrom discovered this in 1958.  He later used this to determine that the sun is made from Hydrogen.  During a full solar eclipse, when the moon blocks out the brightness of the sun, you can only then see the sun’s corona enough to determine its composition.

Interesting about this fact, is that the moon is currently at a distance from the earth to actually block out the sun entirely.  If it wasn’t, it would have taken people a lot longer to figure that the sun is mostly made of Hydrogen.

Raven created this great image.  It is a combination of the periodic table of the elements with the Emission Spectrum of each element overlaid it their respective places.

In 2018, your new computer will be 6 times faster and use 80 times less energy.  HP just invented a new computer architecture.  Rather than using generalized CPUs, it uses special purpose ones.  Instead of using electricity is uses light, called photonics.

Check out the HP Discover video explaining all the details.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzbMSR9vA-c

Remember when scientists couldn’t explain how bees flew?  This TED talk has some answers: they use leading edge vortices.  Find out more by watching the TED talk.

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_dickinson_how_a_fly_flies