Life finds a way

The aptly named Tree of Life challenges nature in the Olympic National Park, WA, suspended between two cliffs, with its viewable roots seemingly supplying it with life from no soil

[📹 thenaiveexplorers]pic.twitter.com/7EpuaERl1m

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 30, 2023

The blade of a saw carries a small electrical signal. When skin contacts the blade, the signal changes because the human body is conductive and the change to the signal activates the safety system.

[📹 SawStop] pic.twitter.com/xaG1CWCM4o

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 29, 2023

How to blow your pet's mindpic.twitter.com/6olZf2wOYJ

— Hy Bender (@hybender) September 30, 2023

Borgund Stave Church in Norway was built sometime between 1180 and 1250 AD.

It's part of of a group of medieval churches almost only present in Scandinavia, built with wood only and without using a single nail

[📹 Espen Hatleskog / pilotviking]pic.twitter.com/FqM2kkF0No

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 1, 2023

Samanea saman, is a species of flowering tree in the pea family. It usually reaches a height of 15–25 m (49–82 ft) and a diameter of 30 m (98 ft).

This is located in Alae Cemetery, Wainaku, Hawaii

[📹 alexjbauer]pic.twitter.com/IaHGmOcBDH

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 1, 2023

Tiny frog with its even tinier friend.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/k82CAFS5GA

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 30, 2023

Day and night at the same time.

The terminator is a moving line that divides the daylit side and the dark night side of a planetary body.

When you're along it at sea, the absence of orographic features facilitates this.

[📹 SeaChefGarry]pic.twitter.com/nmtXnw4Dnq

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 2, 2023

While bumble bees live socially in hives usually located underground (with 50 - 500 individuals), foragers or males can happen to sleep in flowers, especially when tired after too much workpic.twitter.com/Fu1qCLAyTI

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 2, 2023

He did it, I just watched helplesslypic.twitter.com/BNahaDLTH2

— Hy Bender (@hybender) September 28, 2022

How people with different types of visual impairment may see the world

[📹 Mike Mulligan / blindonthemove]pic.twitter.com/ETqMz5jQbS

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 3, 2023

Lycogala epidendrum, commonly known as wolf's milk or groening's slime, is a species of myxogastrid amoeba which is often mistaken for a fungus. It grows on damp rotten wood from June to November with small pink cushion-like blobs

[📷 ukigumo_club] pic.twitter.com/w8uaUgjCXl

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 3, 2023

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— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) October 3, 2023

Peeling back years of growth to reveal the brickwork

Fast-growing climbing plants can achieve a vertical growth of up to 1 metre per year: but what's more impressive, is the dense network of branches only visible when they are removed.pic.twitter.com/J650F6Syju

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 4, 2023

Roll clouds seen over Lake Michigan from the cockpit of a Citation jet around 17,000 feet.

[📷 Nealm7] pic.twitter.com/faKtQClJJO

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 4, 2023

Long-necked treepic.twitter.com/pIM3gOLr0i

— Hy Bender (@hybender) October 4, 2023

If you take your bowling ball to the skate park, you need geometry and phisics to turn a normal throw into a stunning trick shot

[📹 Dude Perfect]pic.twitter.com/Sud0VyBt51

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 5, 2023

A male glass frog is the lone protector of his eggs 24/7 until they hatch. Sometimes this means protecting them from their worst enemy

[📹 NatGeoWILD]pic.twitter.com/sJewRcrj2g

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 5, 2023

Smooth.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/QTCR5mfRV4

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) October 4, 2023

Adhesion is the stickiness that water molecules have for substances. This is what happens when water stickiness and surface tension are broken and a laminar flow becomes turbulentpic.twitter.com/CVcvfDqysK

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 6, 2023