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Tiny but deadly plankton.
Gonyaulax polygramma is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate.
At times, populations of this species will explode into huge blooms that are called red tides. Although G. polygramma does not produce toxins, its blooms can cause massive fish and shellfish kills due to anoxia (lack of oxygen) and high sulfide and ammonia levels resulting from cell decomposition.
More about this species: Encyclopedia of Life
Image by Maria A. Faust via Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany -
thierry legault… the sun on june 1, 2005 @ legault
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The “Uno Wheel” bicycle—its flaw was if it was braked suddenly, the rider would spin around and round in the big wheel until the momentum subsided, 1948 (via)
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Flowers of the Sky - a collection of images, spanning nearly a millennia, of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars. See the whole selection here: http://bit.ly/1ruGqe7
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Graduate student Julian Melchiorri has created Silk Leaf, the first man-made biological leaf. It absorbs water and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen just like a plant. He did this by suspending chloroplasts in a mixture made out of silk protein. He believed it can be used for many things but the most striking one is the thought that it could be used for long distance space travel. Plants do not grow in space, but this synthetic material can be used to produce oxygen in a hostile environment. (Video)
(Source: sixpenceee)
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This 1911 photo of Marie Curie in a roomful of dudes (including Max Planck, Henri Poincaré, Ernest Rutherford, and young Albert Einstein, lurking in the background, second from right) bespeaks so much both about the gendered state of science and about the enormity of cultural bias Curie overcame to become the “Martyr of Science,” the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person to date to win a Nobel in two different sciences.
Also see Curie on science and wonder.
Fenomenona. Ne parlavo giusto ieri con alchemico .
(Source: explore-blog)
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Smartphone running app circa 1874 (from English translation of Étienne-Jules Marey’s Animal Mechanism)
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Behavioural psychologist B.F. Skinner working with a rat in a “Skinner box”, by Nina Leen, 1960
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