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Come along with some geese as they migrate back from their southern winter havens Geese's iconic "V" formations and trademark squawks can be seen and heard overhead as they go back and forth to the south through the year. But what does it take for such a long trip?

🪶❄️ Tens of thousands of snow #geese are currently moving through the Atlantic Flyway on their way to northern breeding grounds. When the entire flock takes flight at once, the white-winged #birds create a visual effect that resembles a swirling winter blizzard.

👉 www.npr.org/2026/03/09/nx-s1...

Science communicator Hank Green wearing a red shirt and glasses stands before a dark background featuring the text "CAN YOU TRUST YOUR NEWS?" and icons representing a question, a prohibition sign, and a warning.

🕵️‍♂️📰 Trying to piece together what to believe can feel impossible, but we can still find reliable, trustworthy answers as long as we know how to look for them. @hankgreen.bsky.social and @thecrashcourse.bsky.social explain. #science #news

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Man builds functional typewriter out of Legos The inkless device works a bit like a printing press.

⚙️🧱 Designer Steve Guinness spent years perfecting the internal mechanisms of this 2,000-piece working #lego typewriter. The finished build includes a functional carriage that advances with every keypress and a platen roller that can hold real paper. #engineering

👉 www.popsci.com/technology/ma...

A claymation figure wearing a yellow beanie and blue shirt falls through the air above a black skateboard against a textured reddish-orange background.

🦴🏥 Roughly 50% of people will break a bone at some point. This TED-Ed lesson by Gurpreet Baht and Natalie Pang explains how our bodies heal through the inflammatory, cartilaginous, bony, and remodeling phases. #health #science

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The story of the first telephone call – nine words that changed the world Alexander Graham Bell was not the only person trying to invent the telephone. But 150 years ago, he won the race – just – and the rest is history.

☎️🗣️ The first phone call was a literal cry for help. While working on his "harmonic telegraph," Alexander Graham Bell accidentally spilled battery acid on his clothes. The rest is #history. #science

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It has the fastest bite in the animal kingdom and victims are sucked up when this deadly ambush predator opens its enormous mouth | Discover Wildlife It's best not to venture too close to this deadly ambush predator

🐡👣 The hairy frogfish is a master of disguise, covered in skin spinules that look like hair to help it hide in plain sight. It lures in meals using a specialized rod on its head before swallowing them using high-speed vacuum suction. #science #fish

👉 www.discoverwildlife.com/ani...

An animated, blue-tinged ghost of Sir Christopher Wren and a black raven float in front of the stone walls and turrets of the White Tower at the Tower of London.

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🏰🐦‍⬛ What can architectural details tell us about power, wealth, and daily life from 1,000 years ago?

Watch the ghost of architect Sir Christopher Wren and a cheeky raven investigate the Tower of London to find clues about Norman #architecture. #history

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It's a staggering 300 metres underground, features amazing 11-metre-tall crystals – and has a deadly 90% humidity level | Discover Wildlife

💎🌡️ The Cueva de los Cristales is home to giant beams of selenite that grew over hundreds of thousands of years in extreme heat. Scientists recently found dormant microbes trapped inside. #science #geology

👉 www.discoverwildlife.com/ani...

What does the appendix do? Biologists explain the complicated evolution of this inconvenient organ The appendix has independently evolved at least 32 times across 361 mammalian species. What makes it an evolutionary darling when it’s more of a medical liability today?

🏥🦠 Modern research shows that the appendix is not a useless evolutionary leftover but a reservoir for healthy microbes.

When the digestive system is compromised by illness, this small organ helps repopulate the gut with the bacteria necessary for proper digestion. #science #health

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Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors The idea of the classical period—the time of ancient Greece and Rome—as an elegantly unified collection of superior aesthetic and philosophical cultural traits has its own history, one that comes in large part from the era of the Neoclassical.

🎨🏛️ Did you know the "classic" white marble look of Roman statues was actually an accident? Ancient artists originally covered their work in bright, lifelike colors, but centuries of weathering and overzealous scrubbing took its toll. #history #rome

👉 www.openculture.com/2026/03/...

An animated, blue-tinged ghost of Sir Christopher Wren and a black raven float in front of the stone walls and turrets of the White Tower at the Tower of London.

🏰🐦‍⬛ What can architectural details tell us about power, wealth, and daily life from 1,000 years ago?

Watch the ghost of architect Sir Christopher Wren and a cheeky raven investigate the Tower of London to find clues about Norman #architecture. #history

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/christopher-...

A woman with blonde hair in a ponytail, wearing a green baseball cap and glasses, carefully inspects a white wooden beehive box as a large, dark mass of honeybees clings to the structure in the background.

🐝🍯 Texas Beeworks founder Erika Thompson is known for her calm, low-equipment approach to relocating #bees. In this video, she searches for the queen so she can relocate this large colony and its 32 kg (70 lbs) of honey. #insects

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Michelangelo. The impossible man On the anniversary of Michelangelo’s birth, a portrait of an impossible man: a ferocious temperament, a profound solitude, and an art born from the conflict between form and matter.

🎨🗿 We often see Michelangelo as a mythic figure, but his contemporaries saw an "intolerable" and brooding man who lived an austere life. His abrasive personality and the concept of "non-finito" (the unfinished) defined his #art. #history

👉 www.domusweb.it/en/art/2026/...

A family of small, gray-furred meerkat pups huddle together in a cozy pile, nestled against the thick, tan-and-white fur of an adult meerkat.

🐾🇦🇺 The new meerkat babies at Melbourne Zoo have ventured into the outdoor world for the first time. Spend 10 uninterrupted minutes with these fuzzy, wobbly pups as they nose around their enclosure. #nature #animals

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Weed that smells like paint thinner takes over Arizona Stinknet is an invasive weed that can disperse thousands of seeds at a time.

🌻👃 It has bright yellow #flowers and looks like a #desert wildflower, but don't be fooled.

"Stinknet" is an invasive weed spreading across the Southwest U.S. that smells like turpentine, causes rashes, and fuels wildfires.

👉 www.popsci.com/environment/s...

Sheep are disappearing from our hills and our dinner plates Have we have passed "peak sheep" in the UK?

🐑📉 You might notice fewer #sheep on the hills next time you visit the UK.

A mix of changing diets and new environmental rules is shifting how – and where – these #animals live, fundamentally altering a landscape that has looked the same for centuries.

👉 www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg...

Seventeen small, rectangular handmade boxes made from patterned cardboard are arranged on a wooden surface, each featuring a twine tie and a unique button closure.

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 📦✨ What can you make with an empty toilet paper roll, a spoon, and a ruler? Crafter Paige Elliott shows you how to turn simple cardboard tubes into small, patterned boxes with button closures. #art #crafting

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Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Literary historian Vladimir Brljak tells the tale of the intrepid balloonists who first flew beyond the blue terrestrial sky, challenging the definition of where our world begins to end

👨‍🚀🚀 Yuri Gagarin is the name we all know, but the title of first in #space is actually a bit more complicated.

It turns out that official records and the way we define the edge of our atmosphere change the story of the early Space Race. #history

👉 www.newscientist.com/article...

Scared of Spiders? The Real Nightmare Is a World Without Them A sweeping review of nearly 100,000 insect and arachnid species in North America has revealed a surprising and troubling reality: scientists lack even basic conservation assessments for the vast majority of them.

🕷️🛡️ Most of us might recoil at the sight of a #spider in the corner, but these eight-legged hunters are actually nature's silent guardians. #science

👉 scitechdaily.com/scared-of-s...

A hand lifts a paper cutout of a train from a purple sheet on a craft table surrounded by sheep figurines and a miniature violin.

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🎻🚂 Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten taught herself to play guitar upside down as a left-handed child, creating a unique style that defined her folk and blues sound. This stop-motion video brings her classic song "Freight Train" to life. #music #history

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Masayoshi Matsumoto Meticulously Transforms Balloons into Expressive Critters For Masayoshi Matsumoto, also known as Isopresso Balloon, a simple dog-shaped balloon animal is utter child's play.

🎈🦀 Forget the simple dogs and swords from birthday parties. Artist Masayoshi Matsumoto twists #balloons into anatomically detailed animals like iridescent beetles and feathered birds, using zero adhesives or markers. #art

👉 www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/...

Rice cheese may be the next big thing Early test batches contained 12 percent protein.

🧀🍚 Most vegan cheeses are missing one big thing: protein.

Now researchers have found a way to use rice byproducts to create a high-protein, hypoallergenic alternative that actually melts. #science #food

👉 www.popsci.com/science/rice-...

The lost languages of ancient humans: Listen to stone-age chat The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like?

🗣️🦴 We can see ancient tools and art, but what did our ancestors sound like?

Scientists are now reconstructing "Stone Age chat," using archaeology and acoustics to recreate the lost languages of ancient humans. #history #science

👉 www.bbc.com/future/article/2...

Seventeen small, rectangular handmade boxes made from patterned cardboard are arranged on a wooden surface, each featuring a twine tie and a unique button closure.

📦✨ What can you make with an empty toilet paper roll, a spoon, and a ruler? Crafter Paige Elliott shows you how to turn simple cardboard tubes into small, patterned boxes with button closures. #art #crafting

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/toilet-paper...

A hand lifts a paper cutout of a train from a purple sheet on a craft table surrounded by sheep figurines and a miniature violin.

🎻🚂 Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten taught herself to play guitar upside down as a left-handed child, creating a unique style that defined her folk and blues sound. This stop-motion video brings her classic song "Freight Train" to life. #music #history

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post...

Underneath the ruins of ancient Rome surprising giant creatures roam - to the amazement of scientists | Discover Wildlife Emperors have come and gone but, today, the leaders of this Roman monument live and die by pincers, not swords

🦀🇮🇹 While empires rose and fell above them, a population of freshwater crabs has been thriving in #Rome's ancient sewers for 2,000 years. #history

👉 www.discoverwildlife.com/ani...

Why Has Punch, an Adorable Baby Monkey, Struggled to Fit in With His Troop? Scientists Explain the Lives of Japanese Macaques Experts say the other monkeys' aggressive behaviors toward Punch are pretty normal

🧸🐒 Remember #Punch the lonely macaque? Scientists in Japan are tracking him to understand primate social hierarchies.

Their research explains how maternal status and early bonds determine if a #monkey successfully integrates into the troop.

👉 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...

A 3D-printed wheelchair is helping this turtle walk again A volunteer used input from Redditers to fine tune the reptile’s mobility assistance device.

🐢🛞 When Moses the box #turtle arrived at the Mississippi Aquarium without back legs, a dedicated aquarist used a 3D printer and advice from Reddit to build him a custom set of wheels. #science

👉 www.popsci.com/technology/3d...

AI and X-Ray Scans Turn Thousands of Ants Into Stunning 3D Models A new high-tech scanning system is rapidly turning thousands of ants into stunning 3D models—building a digital library of Earth’s biodiversity.

🐜🔬 Researchers at the University of Maryland and KIT in Germany are using a synchrotron particle accelerator and AI to build a massive 3D library of #ants. #science

👉 scitechdaily.com/ai-and-x-ra...

A Biologist Explains What The First Eyes On Earth Could See. Hint: They Were Made Of Crystal Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision could actually see.

💎👁️ Imagine seeing the world through eyes made of...stone?

Scientists studying trilobites from hundreds of millions of years ago found that these ancient marine animals used lenses made of solid calcite crystal to navigate the ocean floor. #science #evolution

👉 www.forbes.com/sites/scotttr...