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Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.

This amazing time-lapse video of Yosemite was a collaboration between Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty.

The Aurora from TSO Photography on Vimeo.

I'm a sucker for time-lapse photography.

Here's a video shot at Kirkenes and Pas National Park in northern Norway of the amazing Northern Lights.

Engineers have completed the first phase of a project to explore an ancient subglacial lake buried 1.8 miles beneath the ice in Antarctica.

The team used a 'tractor train' to tow nearly 70 tonnes of equipment 155 miles through the Ellsworth mountain range to the Lake Ellsworth drilling site.

Scientists will return in November to collect water and sediment from the buried lake using space industry standard 'clean technology'.

They hope the samples will provide clues about the earth's past climate.

It could also help scientists assess the present-day stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and implications for future sea-level rise.

Image by Joel Abroad via Flickr

Scientists have confirmed that the strange fish, which has lungs and breathes air, can use its scrawny limbs to "walk".

While there has been anecdotal evidence about the walking ability of lungfish, it has never been scrutinised closely before.

Scientists have discovered why buttercups glow yellow under people's chins - and it has nothing to do with liking butter.

Researchers found that the flower's unique anatomical structure - used to attract pollinating insects - contributes to the popular children's trick.

Experts in physics and plant scientists from Cambridge University worked together to solve a problem that has perplexed generations of researchers.

Image via Wikipedia

Researchers discovered that yawns are more contagious between family members or friends than strangers.

Everyone knows when one person yawns it can set others off - but why the phenomenon occurs is little understood.

Now new research suggests social empathy plays an important role.

In March 2000, an iceberg calved off the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Named B-15, it measured roughly 275 by 40 kilometers. The iceberg subsequently broke into pieces

And (very big) bits and pieces are still floating about today. Here's a shot of B-15J and B-15Y taken last month.

Finding Oregon from Uncage the Soul Productions on Vimeo.

Sometimes you just have to sit back and applaud nature.

Here's a timelapse creation covering the American state of Oregon over six months.

Pretty spectacular I'm sure you would agree.

This video was made by Ben Canales, John Waller, Steve Engman, and Blake Johnson of Uncage the Soul Productions.

This montage of New Horizons images shows Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, and were taken during the spacecraft's Jupiter flyby in early 2007.

If you look closely can get just make out a huge volcanic explosion on the surface of the little moon.

Click on the image to embiggen.