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Human instinct is to go in circles
In the absence of external directional signals, lost people usually do not go more than 100 meters from their starting point, no matter how long they travel.
Scientific works
Winding stairs like a roller coaster
The terraced construction 'SpaceWalk' consists of many spirals far from the ground, which can evoke the feeling of walking through space.
Scientific works
Drone follows Leonardo da Vinci's 530-year-old design
A team of engineers at the University of Maryland built a 4-rotor drone with a unique spiral shape and successfully tested it.
Health
Spiral robot swims in blood vessels to break blood clots
Scientists have developed a tiny robot that can be manipulated to deliver drugs to specific locations in the blood vessels.
Oceanography
The moment proves the intelligence of humpback whales when hunting
Humpback whales use a special technique to form a prominent spiral in the sea to hunt.
Environment
The mystery of a series of stone columns formed hundreds of thousands of years ago
Spiral stone columns up to more than 6 m high on the shores of Lake Crowley, California, USA are said to be 760,000 years old.
Space science
The spiral galaxy is 80,000 light-years across
The high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope shows spiral arms that contain millions of stars from the galaxy NGC 2775.
Space science
Scientists take pictures of the planet being born
The huge telescope (VLT) of the Paranal Observatory in Chile captures an image of an exoplanet forming around the star AB Aurigae.
Space science
Advanced extraterrestrial civilizations residing in the Milky Way?
The evolution of elliptical galaxies is completely different from the Milky Way. They go through the infancy so much radiation that no planet of life can survive ...
Space science
Find out how to take pictures of a much sharper black hole
Harvard scientists are the ones who have just claimed to find a way to take sharper pictures of black holes than old fuzzy images available so far.
Space science
Found a giant galaxy, 2.5 times larger than the Milky Way galaxy
The US and NASA Space Hubble Space Telescope has discovered UGC 2885, the largest spiral galaxy ever recorded.
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Time travel is entirely possible?
Theoretically, a beam of laser light can create a spiral of time that can allow people to travel into the past, though only to a certain point.
Space science
Detecting bright galaxies like fireworks in the universe
The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) on December 31, 2019 shared photos that reveal the structure and glow of the spiral galaxy NGC 4258.
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6 intersections designed like world famous mazes
The overlap of gliding, straight or spiral lines makes a series of intersections in the US, Japan, and the UK ... such as the 'horror' for the first-time driver experien…