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I can’t think of any more human activity than conducting science experiments. Think about it - what do kids do? … They’re turning over rocks, they’re plucking petals off a rose, they’re exploring their environment through experimentation. That’s what we do as human beings, & we do that more thoroughly & better than any other species on Earth that we have yet encountered. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The digitally printed linen fabric on the Flow wingchair by French design studio AK-LH graphically shows the flow of human circulatory system.
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Four trichomes are on the petal of Mazus fauriei. The image was captured using cryo SEM. courtesy of Wann-neng Jane Academia Sinica Image taken on an FEI Quanta 200/Quorum PP2000TR scanning electron microscope | FEI Company's Flickr
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A beautiful prominence eruption shot off the east limb (left side) of the sun on Monday, April 16, 2012. Such eruptions are often associated with solar flares, and in this case an M1 class (medium-sized) flare did occur at the same time, though it was not aimed toward Earth. This event, which is still in progress, was seen by NASA’s SDO satellite. View a video of this event here: www.flickr.com/... Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO
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Metaphase chromosome - DNA is freaking amazing. I can't believe it goes from 10 nm to 700 nm (each chromatid) so precisely. Exactly like this every time (hopefully). This is beautiful. Credit: DON W. FAWCETT/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY #science #chromosome #cells #genetics #DNA
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Bacteria Use Chat to Play the 'Prisoner's Dilemma' Game in Deciding Their Fate ScienceDaily (Mar. 27, 2012)
Dr. Alan R. Prescott University of Dundee CHIPs, School of Life Sciences Dundee, UK Cells showing small heat shock protein localized to intermediate filaments (100x)
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An aurora on March 8, 2012 shimmering over snow-covered mountains in Faskrudsfjordur, Iceland. Image courtesy of Jónína Óskarsdóttir.
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Netherlands - May 24, 2002, by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite. This false-color composite was created by combining infrared, near-infrared, and red wavelengths. The darker the red shown, the more densely vegetated the terrain; light blue-green areas show bare land surface. The North Sea appears black in this scene and trends from dark blue to lighter blue as the seawater carries increasingly more sediment near the surface.
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The Deadly Genomes - Genome structure and size of harmful bacteria and viruses
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Milky Way stars over Grand Teton Mountain Range at Grand Teton National Park on August 23, 2011 in Wyoming - Royce Bair
The Milky Way over Jackson Lake and Tetons at Grand Teton National Park on August 23, 2011 in Wyoming - Royce Bair
Electricity is the flow of electrons. When zinc oxidizes and exchanges electrons with copper, energy is released. (Dirt, penny, galvanized nail, wire, bulb). Linda Dong.
Hand Colored Engravings by J.F. Neumann.
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Most of us can’t tell our secant from our cotangent. But the forms are everywhere, and Nikki Graziano wants to help us see them. Graziano, a math and photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology, overlays graphs and their corresponding equations onto her carefully composed photos. “I wanted to create something that could communicate how awesome math is, to everyone,” she says. Graziano doesn’t go out looking for a specific function but lets one find her instead. Once she’s got an image she likes, Graziano whips up the numbers and tweaks the function until the graph it describes aligns perfectly with the photograph. See more of her Found Functions series at Nikkigraziano.com.
Abdomen (detail) 2011 A detail of "Abdomen" showing the spinal cord within a gold vertebra.
Head and Torso 2010 mulberry paper 9 x 13 x 1 inches This piece represents a midsagittal section (the one that cuts through the center making a left half and a right half) of the head and chest. I employ a device of making all of the bones in my work from the gilded edges of old books. I do this for aesthetic reasons as well as a means of pulling the pieces away from the world of scientific specimens and a bit more in the direction of religious reliquaries. I like to emphasize the reverential and the precious; to have a look inside is such a privilege.
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The image above shows Mercury on the left, and Vesta on the right. Both surfaces are marked by impact craters, but the most immediately noticeable difference is that Vesta has a much more irregular shape. This is a consequence of Mercury's far larger gravity, which has squeezed the planet into a sphere. Vesta's weak gravity is less able to overcome the strength of the rocks. Mercury's mass is about 1300 times greater than that of Vesta.
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alastair mackie’s sphere of intricately connected mouse skulls collected from regurgitated barn owl pellets found around his family farm.
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Microscopic image of the cross section of a sapling.
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Dr. Edward Atkinson in his Antarctica lab
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Gonzalo Muñoz Ferrer how amazing, i long for the day i am able to witness an aurora.
Emiley Poelker Gonzalo, You just typed my thoughts!