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A ball of Play-Doh impacts a block of clay at 270 feet per second.
Etsy find of the day: Because you can never have too many unicellular organisms…
I WANT THESE. OHMYGOSH. THEY’RE SO AWESOME!!!
Original watercolor painting of the cell division cycle. The four phases of mitosis rendered in shades of yellow, green and blue. Via.
this also makes me wish i could paint. science & art seem intricately linked, and i love that.
i appreciate these things so much more now that i’m grown up. ahahahahha.
Berkeley Lab scientists have mimicked the structure of mother of pearl to create what may well be the toughest ceramic ever produced.
i don’t suppose, you know, it’d be affordable?
David Maisel’s large-scale photographs display copper canisters that hold the ashes of psychiatric hospital patients. The Oregon State Hospital, in Salem, inaugurated as the Oregon State Insane Asylum in 1883, stored the remains of over 5000 people in canisters in an underground vault in the mid-1970s. The vault flooded repeatedly, and the canisters—some containing unclaimed remains more than a 100 years old—underwent spectacular processes of deterioration. Via.
hai. i love science. this is freakish, ghoulish, and awesome..freakoulsome?
Radiotrophic fungi are a recent discovery, first seen as black molds growing inside and around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. These fungi appear to use the pigment melanin to convert gamma radiation into chemical energy for growth.
