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The Richat Structure in the Saharah desert of Mauritania via Chaudron
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A calico lobster that had been living in obscurity off the coast of Maine has now been catapulted into a sort of celebrity, thanks to its rare coloring: a calico mix of orange and yellow spots. Researchers say it could be a 1 in 30 million specimen
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Nautilus Shells Earrings by soradesigns, via Etsy.
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The bio-light uses different biological technologies to create ambient light effects. The concept explores the use of bioluminescent bacteria, which are fed with methane and composted material (drawn from the methane digester in the Microbial Home system). Alternatively the cellular light array can be filled with fluorescent proteins that emit different frequencies of light.
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Earth from Space: Rainforest river This image from the Envisat satellite shows the Juruá River snaking through the Amazon rainforest in western Brazil. Along the river’s main course are free-standing ‘oxbow lakes’, formed when a river changes course. For further details on Envisat, and to see more images, please visit: www.esa.int/...
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Rivers forming tree-like figures on the desert of Baja California, Mexico. Photo by Adriana Franco
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the Super-Kamiokande, a giant neutrino detector buried 1000m underground in Japan. Usually filled with 50,000 tonnes of pure water, the observatory detects neutrinos by watching for interactions with the subatomic particles in the water.
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Icones of Japanese algae, Tokyo, Kazamashobo (1907-1942).
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baby thornback ray (Photo credit: Solent News via Rex USA)
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The Hopf map is a special transformation invented by Heinz Hopf that maps to each point on the ordinary 3D sphere from a unique circle of points on the 4D sphere. Taken together, these circles form a fiber bundle called a Hopf Fibration.
Nabokov's system developed to map patterns on butterfly wings.
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Emma Whitehead love this - great article on Nabokov's butterflies and I discovered Brain Pickings because of it - thanks!
serrated teeth of the so-called Crabeater Seal, Lobodon carcinophagus (which actually eats mostly krill).
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Coryphella polaris Photo by Alexander Semenov
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Alitta virens Photo by Alexander Semenov
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G-actin is a protein involved in muscle contraction. It forms loose bundles that self-organize into regular patterns. The image was captured using total internal reflectance fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy. Dennis Breitsprecher
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Little Bee Eater embroidered by Trish Burr
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JFeathersmith WOW. That is incredible.
Embodiment. Illuminated skeleton by Eric Franklin, 2008. Flameworked borosilicate glass, krypton, wood
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grapefruit painting by Dennis Wojtkiewicz
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Rebecca Marsh That's lovely. They should just make church stain glass windows replicating cross-sections of fruits and vegetables.
Optic Nerve (2010) Blown glass, xenon. Part of Jessica Lloyd-Jones' series of blown glass anatomical neon sculptures
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Julie Reynolds You pin the best things.
Gown by Jean Kormos of Ghost Tailor silkscreened with images of dendritic cells (2012). Custom made for the daughter-in-law of dendritic cell discoverer Ralph Steinman to wear to posthumous ceremony awarding his Nobel prize.
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Janine Covert Looks like Pyritized Ammonite fossils.