60 years ago an article in Science predicted today would be the end of the world. Wow! With Microsoft outages how correct were they!

This glass frog is basically see-through — you can watch its heart and organs working right through its skin. When it sleeps, it hides most of its red blood cells in its liver, turning almost invisible. #GlassFrog #Biology #Nature #Science

A quasar 12 billion light-years away holds the largest water reservoir ever found — about 140 trillion times all the water in Earth's oceans, floating as vapor around a black hole. The universe is wetter than you'd think. #Astronomy #Space #Science #DidYouKnow

Meet the leafy seadragon: a seahorse cousin so good at pretending to be seaweed that predators swim right past it. It can't swim fast, so it just… drifts, disguised. Males carry the eggs on their tails. #OceanLife #MarineBiology #Camouflage #Seadragon

Saturn's moon Titan has lakes, rivers and rain — but not of water. Its weather runs on liquid methane, which pools in lakes, carves river channels and falls as rain under a thick orange haze. An alien water cycle, minus the water. #Space #Astronomy #Titan #Science

The peacock mantis shrimp punches with the force of a speeding bullet — its club moves so fast it boils the water around it, creating a flash of light and heat. Oh, and it sees colours we can't even imagine. #MarineBiology #Ocean #Science #Nature

Les aurores de Jupiter dansent au rythme de son atmosphère tumultueuse. 🌌✨ #Jupiter #Aurora #Space #Astronomy #TimeSeries

Trees talk to each other. Beneath a forest, fungi link tree roots into a vast underground network — the "wood wide web." Through it, trees share nutrients and warn neighbours of insect attacks. A forest is less a collection of trees than one connected community. #Science #Nature #Trees #Biology

Meet Turritopsis dohrnii, the 'immortal jellyfish.' When injured or starving, it can rewind its life cycle — transforming back into a polyp and starting over. Theoretically, it could do this forever. #MarineBiology #OceanLife #Science #DidYouKnow

Europa, Jupiter's icy moon, hides a global ocean beneath its frozen shell — holding about twice as much water as all of Earth's oceans combined. NASA's Europa Clipper is en route now to see if that hidden sea could support life. #space #Europa #NASA #astrobiology

Axolotls never grow up — they keep their feathery gills and aquatic life for their whole lives, a trick called neoteny. They can even regrow limbs, parts of their heart, and bits of their brain. #Axolotl #Biology #Animals #Science

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APOD: 2026 November 11 - NGC 4449: Small Galaxy, Big Impact - NASA Science

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Aboard the International Space Station, astronauts watch the Sun rise and set 16 times a day — one orbit every 90 minutes, so a 'day' lasts just an hour and a half. #Space #ISS #Astronomy #Science

Aboard the International Space Station, astronauts watch the Sun rise and set 16 times a day — one orbit every 90 minutes, so a 'day' lasts just an hour and a half. #Space #ISS #Astronomy #Science

The fennec fox has the largest ears of any fox relative to its body — they radiate heat and can hear prey moving underground. The smallest fox in the world, built for the Sahara. #FennecFox #DesertLife #Wildlife #AnimalFacts

A quasar 12 billion light-years away holds the largest water reservoir ever found — about 140 trillion times all the water in Earth's oceans, floating as vapour around a black hole. #space #astronomy #science #didyouknow

The leafy seadragon doesn't swim — it drifts. Leaf-like lobes make it vanish into kelp, and like seahorses, the males carry the babies. A master of disguise from southern Australia's reefs. #MarineBiology #Ocean #Nature #Science

A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun — around 30,000 Kelvin — yet it lasts less than a second. The thunder you hear is the air around it exploding outward faster than sound. #science #weather #physics #didyouknow

Japanese probe Kaguya discovered a cave on the Moon. The diameter of the hole is about 65 meters, and the depth is about 50 meters. This pit leads to a tunnel under the surface. #space #astronomy

The mimic octopus is the ocean's greatest actor — it can impersonate a sea snake, a lionfish, even a flatfish, reshaping its body and colours to match. It chooses its disguise based on what's hunting it. #MarineBiology #Ocean #Octopus #Nature

A single fluffy cumulus cloud can weigh around 500 tonnes — about as much as 100 elephants. It stays afloat because that weight is spread across billions of tiny droplets over a huge volume of air. #Science #Weather #Clouds #DidYouKnow

The snow leopard's tail is almost as long as its body — and it wraps it around its face like a scarf to sleep in the Himalayan cold. It can't roar, but it can leap 15 metres in a single bound. #SnowLeopard #Wildlife #Science #Nature

Australia’s superb lyrebird can mimic chainsaws, camera shutters and car alarms so precisely that even other birds are fooled. One wild male was recorded copying 20+ species — plus a chainsaw. #birds #nature #science #wildlife

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe - Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science)

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The okapi looks like a giraffe crossed with a zebra — but it's the giraffe's only living relative. Hidden in Congo's rainforests until 1901, its striped hindquarters vanish in dappled light, and its 18-inch tongue can lick its own ears. #animals #wildlife #biology #nature

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth — nearly 3,000 reefs built by billions of tiny coral polyps, stretching over 2,300 km. It's so big you can see it from space. #Ocean #MarineBiology #CoralReef #Science

Red pandas aren't pandas at all — they're the only living member of their own family, Ailuridae. They eat almost entirely bamboo, and grip the stalks with a false thumb: an enlarged wrist bone. Photo: Chester Zoo #RedPanda #Animals #Biology #Nature

That smell after rain has a name: petrichor. It's made by soil bacteria releasing geosmin — and human noses are so sensitive to it we can detect it at just 5 parts per trillion. We evolved to sniff out water. #Science #Nature #Biology #DidYouKnow

A blue whale's heart is the size of a small car, and its tongue alone weighs as much as an elephant. The largest animal ever known to exist — bigger than any dinosaur — is alive right now, swimming our oceans. #BlueWhale #Ocean #MarineBiology #Science

Glass frogs are so see-through you can watch their organs at work — heart, liver and digestive tract, all visible through their skin. When they sleep, they stash red blood cells in the liver to turn even more transparent. #Science #Nature #Animals #DidYouKnow