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Science is Beautiful

Science, is beautiful, and fascinating. In this board, I read a lot of science articles, and will share them here with you all.

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Awesome launch shot

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Our Sun Like You Have Never Seen It Before

by NASAexplorer

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Black-Hole Hunter

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SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 9 Into Orbit; Now Onward to the ISS

Launch of SpaceX Falcon 9

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Sun's Behavior During Eclipse Revealed In Time Lapse

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A dry river channel on the Moon? Well, yes, but not created by water.

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Why Is Yawning Contagious?

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Planet Earth's Northern Hemisphere: A timelapse of Planet Earth from Electro-L, a geostationary satellite orbiting 40000km above the Earth. The satellite creates a 121 megapixel image every 30 minutes with four visible and infrared light wavelengths. The infrared light appears orange in these images, and shows vegetation.

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Watch a nanotube being eaten, and then barfed back up, by a flake of iron

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The last 12 months were the warmest in US history Did April seem feel unusually balmy to you this year? It probably had to do with the fact that it was the third warmest April ever recorded.

Despite 28 years of research, there is still no vaccine that provides effective protection against HIV, and in that time around 25 million people have died of HIV-related causes. To understand why creating a vaccine is so hard, you need to understand HIV. This is no ordinary virus. Scientists who study it speak of it with a mix of weary frustration and awed reverence.

A virus that creates electricity A virus called simply M13 has the power (literally) to change the world. A team of scientists at the Berkeley Lab have genetically engineered M13 viruses to emit enough electricity to power a small LED screen.

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Forever Young (BBC Documentary). This fascinating new series will take us on an incredible journey into the future of being, and give a glimpse of things to come in the new age.

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Fly Over Vesta’s Cratered Terrain with Dawn

by JPLnews

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Drugs Archive : World’s Biggest Drug Database

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Psychiatry's "Bible" Gets an Overhaul Psychiatry's diagnostic guidebook gets its first major update in 30 years. The changes may surprise you

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Awesome Quotes From Einstein

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Delores Randall “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” ~ Albert Einstein

16 Most Expensive Materials in the World

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Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the bright stars of the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. With a long exposure from a dark location, though, the dust cloud surrounding the Pleiades star cluster becomes very evident. The above exposure took about 30 hours and covers a sky area several times the size of the full Moon.

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a spider's web producing organs as seen through an electron microscope.

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Star Cluster Pismis 24

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long, long time ago, in orion nebula, far, far away... :)

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Four Planet Sunset Image Credit & Copyright: Jia Hao Explanation: This mesmerizing sunset photo was taken from the summit of volcanic Mount Lawu, 3,265 meters above sea level, on July 21. The view looks west, toward the city lights of Surakarta (aka Solo), Central Java, Indonesia. Two other volcanic peaks, sharp Merapi (left) and Merbabu lie along the colorful horizon. Four planets shine in the twilight sky above them. Spread out near the plane of the ecliptic are Mercury, Venus, Mars, and...

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A particularly magical Astronomy Photo of the Day from NASA.

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The colors on the specimen have been preserved (though not perfectly) for 47 million years.

Well-preserved ginger mammoth discovered in Siberia

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Extinct fossil diatom from Tertiary deposits in Dunkirk, MD.

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Photograph of the interior heart. National Geographic.

Supermoon photo by ashley_cam

#Supermoon photo by chris2point0

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Josie Donald hey i took a picture similar to this!

#supermoon photo by brentladd

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Record Nine-Planet Star System Discovered? Alien star likely has more planets than the sun, astronomers say.

New strain of cyanobacteria discovered

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Amish farm kids remarkably immune to allergies: study

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Check out some of these exquisite shots from around the world of the #supermoon #harvestmoon

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A Personal Simulation of Your Blood Could Help Doctors Study Disease

High-Speed Data Link Made from Laser Pointers Works Where Wi-Fi Won't

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Fed Up With Sluggish Neutrinos, Scientists Force Light To Move Faster Than Its Own Speed Limit

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In Successful Test, Microsubmarines Help Clean Up Oil Spills

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Haroon Riaz I hope it's not another BP trick.

NASA's 'Pursuit of Light' is a visually stunning mission statement

Magnetic bacteria may help build future bio-computers

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It Looks Like Everyone Survived the Werewolf Apocalypse

Chinese capsule hotel lets you pretend you’re sleeping in space (minus the microgravity)

No, Fox News, dinosaurs did not fart their way to extinction Did dinosaur flatulence on the part of sauropods like Apatosaurus warm the Earth? Possibly. At least, that's the main takeaway from a paper published in the latest issue of Current Biology.

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