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People with synesthesia experience the world very differently from the rest of us.

Students at the Royal College of Art have designed some incredibly cool inventions that merge science and art.

Even though it was launched almost 30 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope is still churning out stunning images from outer space.

The US Army Research Laboratory designed a drone that was modelled after flying squirrels. Their goal was to design a lighter drone that could be used for tasks such as scouting.

Google-owned DeepMind designed an AI program to learn how to navigate obstacles by itself, and the results are absolutely hilarious.

Meet the Mexican mole lizard. The”Bipes Biporus” was spotted by scientists Sara Ruane and Kaitlyn Kraybill-Voth while they were on biodiversity survey for islands and seas in San Juanico. It’s an animal known as an “amphisbaenian” - a type of elongate burrowing reptile that is often pink and wormlike in appearance. They have front strong legs, but its back legs have vanished shrunk by evolution into small vestigial bones. These subterranean creatures are hard to spot. They grow to around 9 inches long, and use their <a href="https://rumble.com/v32pt4-lobstah-the-cat-with-a-claw-like-paw-cute-as-fluff.html" target="_blank">claws</a> for digging underground. However, they will come above ground at night, and are known to eat variety of insects. Locals say they climb inside you when you squat to use the toilet, but that’s a total myth, and bipes are completely harmless. Bipes is the only amphisbaenian genus with limbs, in particular, members of this genus have small but well developed forelimbs. As a species, B. biporus always has five digits on each limb, its head is blunt, and it burrows in sandy desert soils on the peninsula of Baja, California. The <a href="https://rumble.com/v4inmj-5-foot-long-lizard-disappears-from-pet-store.html" target="_blank">lizard’s</a> tail is short and autotomic, although once it is lost it will not regenerate. This species lives in self-constructed tunnels in the soil and, although it typically resides close to the surface, it rarely emerges from underground. As a result, its most likely predators are snakes, which are well suited to enter and navigate its underground burrow systems. Bipes biporus is active year-round, due in part to its capacity for behavioral thermoregulation.

The SALTO robot was built by roboticists at UC Berkeley, and it has an incredible jumping ability.

When you lose weight, what is actually getting lost? Where does the weight go?

Many of us have a vague idea of what a concussion is. But what's really going on inside your head when you get one?

You've probably heard of a murder of crows or a pride of lions, but why do we have all these absurd names for groups of various animals?

The dandelion siphonophore was filmed recently, and it looks pretty amazing!

Why doesn't the International Space Station ever fall back down to earth?

Every time you connect to the internet, there's a very good chance you're sending and receiving data through a network of cables that run along the bottom of the earth's oceans. The Internet is so fast and effortless to use. We often forget that a lot of it travels through underwater cables. Nearly 300 meters cable systems line the ocean floor, connecting the entire world together. Since <a href="https://rumble.com/v32xtw-corning-fiber-optic-usb-3.0-and-thunderbolt-cables.html" target="_blank">fiber-optic cables</a> use light to encode information and remain unfettered by weather, cables carry data faster and cheaper than satellites - they carry 99% of all international data. They’re about as thick as a garden hose and carry the world’s internet, phone calls and even TV transmissions between continents at the speed of light. The fastest ones carry up to 60 terabits per second travelling at two-third the speed of light. That’s why every time you chat to someone overseas, it all happens almost instantly, which is pretty amazing, considering the first cable was laid over 150 years ago and took 17 hours to send a short telegraph. So, next time you are online remember some of that data is crossing oceans just for you. The fact that we route internet traffic through the ocean - amidst deep sea creatures and hydrothermal vents - runs counter to most people’s imaginings of the internet. Didn’t we develop satellites and <a href="https://rumble.com/v46sc2-can-exposure-to-wi-fi-cause-irreparable-damage-to-dna.html" target="_blank">Wi-Fi</a> to transmit signals through the air? Haven’t we moved to the cloud? Undersea cable systems sound like a thing of the past. The reality is that the cloud is actually under the ocean. The cables are actually state-of-the-art global communications technologies. They crisscross the continents too - a message from New York to California also travels by fiber-optic cable. These systems are not going to be replaced by aerial communications anytime soon.

Sometimes the sun produces eruptions, or solar flares, which eject huge amounts of radiation. There was something a little bit different about this one though.

Astronauts and Cosmonauts have tried some pretty cool experiments with water aboard the ISS.

A company called Sprayprinter in Estonia has designed a graffiti-painting robot, and used it to paint a massive mural.

The ocean’s deepest fish doesn’t look like it could survive in harsh conditions thousands of feet below the surface. Instead of giant teeth and a menacing frame, the fishes that roam in the deepest parts of the ocean are small, translucent, bereft of scales - and highly adept at living where few other organisms can. Meet the deepest fish in the ocean, a new species named the <a href="https://rumble.com/v40diw-the-mariana-snailfish-is-the-worlds-deepest-dwelling-fish.html" target="_blank">Mariana snailfish</a>. The Mariana snailfish (Pseudoliparis swirei) thrives at depths of up to about 8,000 meters (26,200 feet) along the Mariana Trench near Guam. That’s 26 meters deeper than the previous record holder. In addition to snailfish, which are soft, small and have no scales, researchers also saw numerous amphipods, shrimp-like creatures that lack an outer shell. By studying life in the deepest part of the ocean, known as the hadal zone, scientists hope to better understand populations and food chains. Snailfish are found at many different depths in marine waters around the world. In deep water, they cluster together in groups and feed on tiny crustaceans and shrimp using suction from their mouths to gulp prey. Little is known about how these <a href="https://rumble.com/v3p8wz-the-worlds-largest-fish-whale-shark-philippines-top-tourist-attraction.html" target="_blank">fish</a> can live under intense water pressure; the pressure at those depths is similar to an elephant standing on your thumb. In a series of dives in 2014 and 2017, a small team of researchers from the U.S. and U.K. dropped special traps into the depths of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean in order to catch the elusive creature. This trench shoots through the ocean floor near Guam and is home to the deepest point in Earth's seas.

Having your heart broken can have very real physical effects on your brain and body.

The NOAA sent down a remotely operated vehicle to study a coral reef surrounding Cuba.

Scientist have created tools from by 3D printing metamaterials that can transfer movement.

NASA has put together some videos that highlight the surface features of Pluto and its moon.

The Robot was designed by Stanford researchers, and could be useful for search and rescue missions in the future.

Cassie is a bipedal robot that's really good at not falling over.

What's the plural of octopus?

Watching a male seahorse give birth to its young is quite an interesting experience.