J.J. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1906 showing that the electron is a particle: ironically, his son, G.P. Thomson, won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1937 showing that it is not (or rather that the electron can also behave as a wave) https://t.co/fx4dooyKok pic.twitter.com/L1t0yXNBau

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 16, 2023

During the exceptionally cold winter of 1795, a French Hussar regiment captured the Dutch fleet on the frozen Zuiderzee, a bay to the northwest of the Netherlands. That was the only time in history when men on horseback captured a fleet of ships https://t.co/Ua1TBfCTV4 pic.twitter.com/MWkZdh10b1

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 17, 2023

The first direct observation of gravitational waves captured the merging of 2 black holes which emitted 36 septillion yottawatts of power (3.6×10⁴⁹ watts), greater than the combined power of all light radiated by all the stars in the observable universe https://t.co/s1T5uNB2gB pic.twitter.com/CCwoaDJZdD

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 20, 2023

An image is nothing but a matrix of pixel values. pic.twitter.com/ox3GSq4OSk
This experiment uses this consideration sending a photo through a pasta machine twice to obtain 4 understandable images from it, visualizing at the same time the principle on which Convolutional Neural…

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 22, 2023

Justine Haupt spent the last three years developing a device that strips away all of the non-phone functions of modern smartphones. The Portable Wireless Electronic Digital Rotary Telephone does not have a touchscreen, menus, or other superfluous features https://t.co/sK9zQ1qL9z pic.twitter.com/TOPLK8ZXD8

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 26, 2023

Louisa's multiple sclerosis related spasticity before & after wearing the Exopulse Mollii Suit. Just 1 hour of near full-body stimulation improves her balance, gait, & stability, and helps make everyday tasks easier for her

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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 28, 2023

Anthoscopus nest is complicated: actually some of them are equipped with a false door to an open empty cavity to confuse the predators, while the actual door is closed and hidden.

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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 30, 2023

Gogoro is a line of highly successful scooters in Taiwan, based on their advanced battery-swapping technology, which allows a quick and easy replacement with an immediate usage of the vehicle after it runs out of power [read more: https://t.co/AFsVKfBDMV]pic.twitter.com/CJao7wGM0U

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 3, 2023

In the 20 years before Einstein died, he almost never accepted invitations to speak at universities. In 1946 he broke his self-imposed rule to give an address in Philadelphia

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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 4, 2023

Fun fact: 69 is the only natural number whose square (4761) and cube (328509) use every decimal digit from 0–9 exactly once

[source: https://t.co/BV1MPv2WZE] pic.twitter.com/GMiScFlfNw

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 20, 2023

Lightning is not always lethal to trees. If the trunk is very wet from rain, the lightning will course through the water causing little damage, despite 1M volts and 20,000°C

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[📹 Elijah Levi: https://t.co/aV6FH19wA7]pic.twitter.com/N3M8tbUrxF

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 21, 2023

The Andromeda galaxy is 6 times bigger in the sky than the full Moon: it's just too dim to see with the naked eye. This composite created by Tom Buckley-Houston shows what it would look like at night if it was just brighter

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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 25, 2023

The trigeminal nerve is the chief sensory nerve of the face. This visualization shows why toothache is often linked to headache

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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 26, 2023

This is Waterlight, developed by Colombian startup E-Dina: a device that provides electrical power using only salt water, thanks to a ionization reaction between the electrolytes in the water and magnesium

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[📹 Adam Danyal]pic.twitter.com/doGlgmKkR4

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 27, 2023

Can smoke behave like water? We're accustomed to seeing smoke as something that floats in the air and it generally soars because it's source is hot, like a fire. But this is what happens when it's cooled

[video: https://t.co/4iHWcg0cA1]pic.twitter.com/97nxahq3GK

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 28, 2023

The Cosquer cave in France contains various rock art engravings dating back as far as 27,000 years BP. The cave has more than 200 parietal figures and is also the only decorated cave whose entrance opens underwater (37 m) due to the Holocene sea level rise https://t.co/P3zNRNTGna pic.twitter.com/GumasOUUrF

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 1, 2023

How India's perfumers make "attar," or natural perfumes using a centuries-old steam distillation method, recreating the smell of rain on Earth

[full video, HD: https://t.co/DEkXmhD1QY]pic.twitter.com/YBUCTWYPfF

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 4, 2023

n 1518, 400 people were hit by a strange syndrome. They danced for days with no rest, resulting in heart attacks, strokes, and death. The plague was later thought to be caused by ergot fungi, whose psychoactive component is structurally related to LSD https://t.co/z1Mz5tAOif pic.twitter.com/XGHoxAGPUJ

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 6, 2023

Does the Sun always rise in the same direction? No. This set of photos by Zaid M. Al-Abbadi shows the direction of sunrise every month during 2019 as seen from near the city of Amman, Jordan

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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 13, 2023