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Rainbow Map of the Brain by M. D. Van Wedeen reveals an orderly lattice of nerve fibers that intersect at roughly right angles, much simpler than had been suspected. via Greg Miller, ScienceNOW #Brain #Neuroscience #M_D_Van_Weeden #ScienceNow #Greg_Miller
Gunther von Hagens, acid-corrosion cast of the arteries of the adult human hand
Wasps airlift annoying ants by Susan Milius, sciencenews: When the Vespula vulgaris wasps of New Zealand compete with native ants for food, a wasp will sometimes swoop down, grab an ant, fly backwards and then drop it. The ant typically does not choose to return to the food. Here is the link for the video. tinyurl.com/3tbglxz #Wasps #Ants #sciencenews #Susan_Milius
Time-lapse video of Aurora Borealis from International Space Station. from elizabethbanks.com
by JMajorLITD
I didn't know this. I love learning new things. //-> Amazingly, a single day on Venus is longer than its entire year. It takes Venus 243 Earth days to completely rotate on its axis, but just 225 days to orbit the sun. Stranger still, Venus is one of two planets that rotates in reverse, a phenomenon called retrograde motion. Most theories attribute the reverse rotation to an ancient planetary collision.
Who knew a fruit fly embryo could be this pretty? // A Drosophila melanogaster embryo using in situ hybridization to visualize mRNA expression of the gap gene giant (red) and the pair-rule gene even-skipped (blue), with Sytox Green (Invitrogen) used to localize nuclei. Specimen preparation and imaging by Cecelia Miles, Dr. Martin Kreitman's lab; projection and cover design by Dr. Vytas Bindokas; University of Chicago, USA.
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