Relephant.
Found an empty patch on my new jeans and just had to add some chemistry.
Thanks for the submission, violetobservations!
Those jeans are lovely. If I were an enzyme, I’d be DNA helicase, so I could unzip your genes! (Just reminded of this joke..) :)
Unexplored passages in Madagascar’s limestone towers in Western Madagascar are home to some of the strangest species in the world.
This photograph shows the ghostly Decken’s sifaka, a lemur.
You can view more photos by clicking the photo above.
There may be a literal truth underlying the common-sense intuition that happiness and sadness are contagious.
A new study on the spread of emotions through social networks shows that these feelings circulate in patterns analogous to what’s seen from epidemiological models of disease.
Earlier studies raised the possibility, but had not mapped social networks against actual disease models. “This is the first time this contagion has been measured in the way we think about traditional infectious disease,” said biophysicist Alison Hill of Harvard University. Data in the research, in the July 7 Proceedings of the Royal Society, comes from the Framingham Heart Study, a one-of-a-kind project which since 1948 has regularly collected social and medical information from thousands of people in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Earlier analyses found that a variety of habits and feelings, including obesity, loneliness, smoking and happiness appear to be contagious.
BBC: Plants are able to “remember” and “react” to information contained in light, according to researchers.
Plants, scientists say, transmit information about light intensity and quality from leaf to leaf in a very similar way to our own nervous systems.
These “electro-chemical signals” are carried by cells that act as “nerves” of the plants.
A photo taken through the lens of my grandfather’s microscope. I think it is of an animal liver sample :)
Awesome, no?
Thanks for the submission, walkorride!
And yes, it is absolutely beautiful. :)
They burn a Jacob doll from the Twilight series.
Will it oxidize: Jacob Black.
Video description: We pit Jacob Black from Twilight against our favorite oxidizer Potassium Chlorate.
Interestingly enough, the plastic he’s made out of is highly resistant to the oxidizing conditions of the potassium chlorate. So Jacob actually wins this battle. But we still want to see him in flames so we mix some sugar into the chlorate to turn it into a flaming inferno.
Ever wondered why dead bodies resurface after drowning?
