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A Massive, Black Sarcophagus Has Been Unearthed in Egypt, And Nobody Knows Who's Inside

A Massive, Black Sarcophagus Has Been Unearthed in Egypt, And Nobody Knows Who's Inside

Should we open it?

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A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children

Cuttlefish show incredible learning and restraint.

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How stunningly ethereal is this!? 😍 Io and Europa float through space along their orbits, past Jupiter's giant red spot, in a video created by using still images taken by Cassini. 📷: NASA/JPL/Kevin M. Gill

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This stunning data visualisation shows a year's worth of earthquakes by depth, between July 2017 to July 2018. 😮 Our planet sure has been busy! 📷 : Raluca/ArcGIS API/USGS

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Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on The International Space Station

We've barely scratched the surface of this.

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Good News! We Have Found a Thriving Polar Bear Population Somewhere on Our Planet

But let's not get complacent now.

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Astronomers Find Top-Secret US Surveillance Satellite Thanks to a Twitter Leak

Ummm...

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We need to pay attention. #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateChange

Antarctica Is Now Rapidly Melting All Over, Including Parts We Thought Were Safe

Well that's just great.

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Mount Vesuvius May Have Killed People by Vaporising Their Blood And Exploding Heads From The Inside

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Quantum Teleportation Was Just Achieved With 90% Accuracy Over a 44km Distance

Wow.

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This footage captures the still mysterious process of crystallisation at the atomic scale for the first time. As water evaporated from salt, it leaves salt molecules behind to do their solid forming thing. 📷 : The University of Tokyo

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We've found enough pumped-hydro sites to power the planet many times over.

Huge Global Study Just Smashed One of The Last Major Arguments Against Renewables

We just found enough pumped-hydro sites to power the planet many times over.

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Whoa! Did you know brains don't feel pain? 😄🧠 ❤️ ✏️ : @theawkwardyeti

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The Supermassive Black Hole at The Centre of Our Galaxy Is Becoming More Active

We live in interesting times!

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Jupiter looks so pretty in ultraviolet. 😍 Ultraviolet images helps scientists track distribution of particles in the planet's atmosphere. Higher layers appear redder due to greater absorption of ultraviolet light, bluer indicates lower more reflective layers. 📷 NASA/ESA et al.

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@astro_del Hi @astro_del , thank you for letting us know! This is awful and it shouldn't be on you to bring it up. This isn't actually our story, it's a syndication we've run from one of our partners. We're adding an editor's note now to amend this oversight and we will pass the feedback on.

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⭐💧Look what happens when harmonics are played through an acoustically levitated drop of water! Sound waves are used to levitate the drop, and different resonance frequencies cause it to oscillate in a variety of shapes. It's called a star drop! 📷: Ran et al, arXiv, 2013

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We love this photo of inventor Nikola Tesla in his laboratory with his "magnifying transmitter" ♥️ The machine was not operating when Tesla was posing for the photo - the electrical discharge was added later using an early photo editing technique called double exposure ⚡…

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It's the first time humans have seen this in the wild.

A New Bird Species Has Evolved on Galapagos And Scientists Watched It Happen

It's the first time humans have seen this in the wild.

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Robots are getting incredibly advanced in the ways they move. This one somehow manages to be sort of cute while a bit unnerving. Imagine what they'll be able to do in another decade! 🤖 📷 : Boston Dynamics

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Walruses Have Attacked And Sunk a Russian Navy Boat in The Arctic

Nature is coming for us.

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Elon Musk Just Launched Neuralink - a Venture to Merge the Human Brain With AI

Elon Musk Just Launched Neuralink – a Venture to Merge The Human Brain With AI

This is really happening.

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So pretty! 😍 This spectacular light microscopy image is of an algae skeleton that's 32-40 million years old. While they're so tiny, they were once so numerous they formed large layers of rocks in the sediment with their glass 'bones'. 📸 : Anatoly Mikhaltsov

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According to the Julian calendar (which was in use at the time) Isaac Newton was born on Christmas day back in 1642. He went on to formulate the laws of gravitation and motion - and discover a little thing called calculus 🍎 📷 : Godfrey Kneller/American Geophysical Union

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BREAKING: Light Has Been Stored as Sound For The First Time

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Cats are of course the perfect middle ground of biology, physics and chemistry. 😂 PS. If you're wondering how physicists play with mice - think of 🖱️ not 🐁. 🖍️: @ErrantScience

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It's Happening: Scientists Can Now Reverse DNA Ageing in Mice

Humans are next.

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Our Sun Will Become a Solid Crystal as It Dies, Joining Billions of Others Out There

The cosmos just became more beautiful.

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Look at this weird pile of goo! It's called sailor's eyeball algae (Valonia ventricosa) and it's one of the largest unicellular organisms in the world - meaning that this whole ball is just one huge cell! 📷: d99/iNaturalist/CC BY-NC

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China Just Built a 250-Acre Solar Farm Shaped Like a Giant Panda

Cause why the hell not.

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😱 WOW. That's the surface of an asteroid! Hayabusa2's Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout took photos during descent, revealing an oddly dust-free surface that seems similar to carbonaceous meteorites - suggesting the asteroid formed during a cataclysmic event! 📷: MASCOT/DLR/JAXA

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Chernobyl Has Been Reclaimed by Plants. Why Don't They Die From Cancer?

The radiation would have killed humans.

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😍🐢🤍 This is a teeny tiny, albino, Galápagos giant tortoise - one of two that recently hatched at Tropiquarium, a zoo in Switzerland. This is extremely rare - there's no wild documented cases, and this is the first time it's been seen in captivity. 📷: Tropiquarium

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Quantum Theory May Twist Cause And Effect Into Loops, With Effect Causing The Cause

Huh?

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Egyptian Authorities Have Discovered 13 Completely Sealed 2,500-Year-Old Coffins

So... should we open them, or?

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😍 It looks like a scene straight out of a gorgeous and epic fantasy movie - but this is a real image of the Milky Way over the Dolomite mountain range at Tre Cime in Italy. This image was highly recommended for the Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year and c…

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Vale Stephen Hawking. We were so lucky to experience his genius in our lifetimes.

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The Cat's Eye Nebula shows us the beautiful death throes of a dying star. As the star runs out of fuel, it throws off layers of mass, creating a cloud illuminated by the star within. 📷: NASA/ESA/HEIC/The Hubble Heritage Team 📷: Nordic Optical Telescope and Romano Corradi

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Harrison Ford: "Stop Giving Power to People Who Don't Believe in Science"

"The future of humanity is at stake."

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8-Year-Old Asteroid Hunter From Brazil Is Officially The World's Youngest Astronomer

Nicole Oliveira has already found 18 asteroids.

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On 10 July 1856, the world received a tremendous gift - incredible genius inventor Nikola Tesla 🎁 Among other things, he invented the first alternating current motor, fluorescent neon lights, the Tesla coil (one of which features in this photo), and wireless communication! …

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An hourglass of light around a still-forming star 450 light years from Earth!😲 The protostar itself is hidden within the neck of this hourglass, and the fiery formation can only be seen in infrared light, a perfect target for NASA's JWST Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) 📷 @NASA

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BREAKING: Giant Lake of Liquid Water Found Hiding Under Mars' South Pole

This could be our best chance for finding life on the Red Planet.

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🤩 We just can't get over the beauty of this image! It's a composite of two tracked six-second exposures, showing Earthshine reflecting off the Moon - and, to the right, Jupiter and its Galilean moons, Callisto, Io, Europa and Ganymede. 📷: selenophile_photo/reddit

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This is called a cross sea, and you do not want to get caught in it! They occur when two weather systems create waves in non-parallel directions, and the resulting conditions are extremely hazardous. This one was captured on Île de Ré, France. 📷: Michel Griffon/Wikimedia

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Physicists Just Found 4 New Subatomic Particles That May Test The Laws of Nature

The elusive 'tetraquarks'.

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Tardigrade genome has been sequenced, and it has the most foreign DNA of any animal:

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The spinning rainbow circles in this illusion aren't actually changing shape or moving back and forth. Sorry! 😝 Discover the quirk in our neurology that tricks our brains into perceive this motion: 🌈⭕🌀 📷 @jagarikin

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Quantum Entanglement Has Now Been Directly Observed at a Larger Macroscopic Scale

Quantum physics is leveling up.

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Physicists Just Reversed Time on The Smallest Scale by Using a Quantum Computer

It wasn't long, but it counts.

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TIL that chalk is actually tiny protists called foraminifera mixed with the corpses of sea…

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It may look like a nebula trapped inside a gemstone but this cosmic cloud is actually a botryoidal jasper formation. Little particles of dust or sand were present when the jasper was forming inside the Oregon contra luz opal, causing it to bubble as it set. 📷 : Bonhams

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Look at this little guy go! It's a microscopic tardigrade wriggling around a bubble, and what it's actually doing is anyone's guess. Is it stuck? Is it having a good scratch? Whatever it's doing, it sure is adorable! 📷: Rebecca Stern/Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative

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Physicists Have Reversed Time on The Smallest Scale Using a Quantum Computer

One small step.

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Archaeologists Just Unveiled a Fully Intact Mummy That's Been Sealed For 2,500 Years

There are 58 others still to open.

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Pentagon Confirms 'Pyramid-Shaped' UFO Video Footage Is Authentic

What the heck is this?

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2 Weeks Before Death, Hawking Submitted a Mind-Melting Paper on Parallel Universes

It's titled "A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation".

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When you snap a photo at just the right moment! This great white shark was photographed by a marine biologist off the coast of Gansbaai, South Africa, just as it was about to break the surface tension of the water. What a magnificent beast! 🦈 📷: Matt_Dave/reddit

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Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics helped take humans to space, turned 100 today! Happy Birthday to an incredible woman! 🎉 📷: NASA

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Check out this incredible photo of the Sakurajima volcano in southern Japan erupting in 2013! No one really knows why volcanic lightning happens, but one hypothesis is that it is facilitated by charge-inducing collisions in volcanic dust. 😱🌋 📷: Martin Rietze/APOD

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😭 What a beautiful tribute to Margaret Hamilton, who led the development of the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program. Google programmed the 107,000 mirrors of the Ivanpah Solar Facility to reflect moonlight for a portrait bigger than Central Park. 📹: Google

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For The First Time, Physicists Encode Information in a Hologram Using Quantum Leap

Whoaaa.

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Look at this little guy go! It's a protist called Meteora sporadica that lives in the sediments at the bottom of the Mediterranean, propelling itself with arms that perform almost constant rowing motions. It's unlike any other organism. 📹: @DEEMteam_Orsay / @Luisjagago

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This is the dance of Earth and Venus around the Sun. They have a resonance of 8:13, which means for every 8 times Earth goes around the Sun, Venus goes around 13 times. When you trace out their orbits, you get a beautiful pentagrammic pattern 😍 📷: IEatTortillas/Imgur

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Electric vehicles have been around since the 1880s and were even preferred early on, as they were, quiet, didn't emit smelly fumes and easier to start than gas cars. 🚗 This early EV is plugged to its fueling station in 1903. 📷 : The New York Public Library Digital Collections

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This is what a full Moon looks like from the ISS! Taken by astronaut Jeff Williams in 2016, it also shows the thinning of our atmospheric layers as the blue turns to black. Incredible! 📷: Jeff Williams/NASA

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The science here is breathtaking.

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Incredible Fossil Discovery Shows an Entire School of Fish From 50 Million Years Ago

We've never seen anything like this.

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To Truly Appreciate The M87 Black Hole Pic, You Need to See Just How Huge It Is

Let's put this in perspective.

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Red sprites are formed by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground. This image, taken over Ok…

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Scientists Have Engineered Human Cells With a Squid-Like Power of Invisibility

Now you see it...

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UFO Mystery: Controversy Swirls Around Report of Retrieved 'Craft'

Wait, what?

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♥️ Happy Valentine's Day, all the way from Mars! This series of images shows heart-shaped mesas and depressions on the Martian surface, taken with the Mars Global Surveyor orbiting the Red Planet. We'll be together soon, Mars! ♥️ 📷: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

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New Quantum Physics Experiment Suggests Objective Reality Doesn't Exist

Reality is overrated.

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This tiny, tiny creature, imaged with scanning electron microscopy, is a diatom - a single-celled microorganism in a silica shell 🔬 They're incredibly abundant in the soil and oceans - there are so many that they produce around 20 percent of Earth's oxygen! 😱 📷: CSIRO

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Physicists Have Successfully Connected Two Large Objects in Quantum Entanglement

Pushing the limits of quantum mechanics.

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This is the rare sight of a ctenophore, or comb jelly, with its tentacles fully extended, at a depth of 1,460 metres. The shimmering rainbow is produced by light scattering of its cilia, which it uses to propel itself through the water. 📷: NOAA Ocean Exploration & Research

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This Spider Has Been Dead For 110 Million Years, But Its Eyes Still Shine in The Dark

We see you.

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Fighting Climate Change Is The Cheapest Option We Have Left, Modelling Shows

We can't afford not to act.

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A Three-Eyed Snake Has Been Discovered in a Small Australian Town

Ever get the feeling you're being watched?

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😂😭 📸 : @polishdoguin /Instagram

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Mystery Lifeforms Have Been Found in The Hostile Darkness Beneath Antarctica

Incredible.

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This 200 million year old shell, found in Somerset, England, fossilized into iridescent aragonite. Like oil on water, layers of the aragonite structure reflects light, causing the light to interact with itself and produce the gorgeous rainbow sheen. 📷 goldenhourminerals

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Birds Have a Mysterious 'Quantum Sense'. For The First Time, Scientists Saw It in Action

This is how they 'see' magnetic fields.

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Marie Curie, the incredible physicist and chemist, was born on November 7, 1867 - 150 years ago today. She is the only person to win two No…

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Gravity May Play a Tiny But Important Role in The Microworld of Particle Physics

From little things, big things grow.

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Wasps Just Became The First Known Insects Who Can Reason Using Logic

We still wouldn't argue with a wasp, though.

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Japan Is About to Start Testing The Feasibility of a Space Elevator

Top floor, please.

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Curiosity's aluminum wheels have seen better days, as this photo taken on the 3079th Mars day of the mission shows. That's over 8 years here on Earth of walking up and down mountains in the same pair of shoes. 😮 📷: Mars Mission Images/NASA

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Scientists Have Accidentally Created a Mutant Enzyme That Eats Plastic Waste

This could be a solution to our plastic addiction.

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This is what magnetic fields look like in real-time, through a device called a ferrolens. A ferrolens consists of a hollow lens with a thin film of ferrofluid inside, and an LED strip for light and colour. Hands up if you want one! 🖐️ 📷: Markoulakis et al., Results in Physics

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NASA Confirms We've Officially Entered a Brand New Solar Cycle

Here's what that will mean for Earth.

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A dazzling but miniscule glimpse into the stunning array of beetle diversity! 😍 There are three times as many beetles species on our planet than vertebrates - every fourth animal on Earth is a beetle. 📷 @smithsonian

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Christmas is a special day for more than one reason. Brilliant mathematician Isaac Newton was born on 25 December 1642! He went on to formulate the laws of gravitation and motion - and invent a little thing called calculus 🍎 Happy holidays, everyone! 📸: Godfrey Kneller/Ame…

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This Is The First-Ever Photo of Quantum Entanglement

Looking Back on The First-Ever Photo of Quantum Entanglement

Taken one year ago.

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Yep. 🖍️: @semi_rad

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Bursting through a bubble cloud these birds reveal secrets of flight. 🦅 😯 Scientists expected their wings create two lift-generating vortices, but the helium-filled bubbles also showed another pair of air swirls created by their tails. 🎥 : Usherwood, et al, JEB, 2020