The saying ‘you are what you eat’ is true for these insects as stunning pictures show their abdomens changing colour as they sip on sugar drops.Mohamed Babu set up the photographs after his wife showed him some ants had turned white after drinking spilt milk. He gave the creatures the brightly coloured sugar drops and watched as their transparent stomachs matched the food they were eating. (Via)
Dr. Jan Schmoranzer
New York, NY, USA
Specimen: Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts
Technique: Fluorescence
THOSE TEETH! HANDS DOWN COOLEST TEETH!
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Adaptive evolution is thrilling! Look how specialized! wonderful! crazy!
Back in 2001: International Space Station captain Yuri Usachev proudly displays the first pizza delivered in outer space.
Removal of a giant cavernous hepatic hemangioma
(a) Intra-operative photo prior to start of liver transplantation demonstrating the patient’s massive abdominal distension.
(b) Giant cavernous hepatic hemangioma occupying the entire abdominal cavity.
(c) Posterior aspect of gross liver specimen following resection and complete decompression (ruler measures 15 cm in length).
(d) Intra-operative photo at the completion of liver transplantation demonstrating the patient’s abdomen.Source (x)
Ho. Lee. CRAP.
I always wonder what the person’s thought process is during these kinds of thing, because this doesn’t happen overnight.
“I must be really really bloated.”
“Man, this food baby will not go away.”
“Preg…pregnant?”
Regardless, crazy awesome surgery. Bravo.
This probably explains why I’m not gonna pass chem #Avocadro #pun #chemistry
Guys I worked really hard to get this picture of the Crab Nebula, I really hope you like it
Perfection.
So I just started doing research in a new lab, and one of the professors puts these phenomenal labels everywhere.
Add to list of things to do if my lab gets a label maker.
This is an example of supercooling – the process by which a very pure liquid is chilled to a temperature just below its usual freezing point without actually making the jump to its solid state. Bottled water is perfect for this, especially the kind that’s been purified via reverse osmosis, a process that strips water of all its particulates. This particulates can act as “seed crystals,” or “nuclei,” to which a liquid phase on the cusp of becoming solid can attach, and crystalize around. In this video, a seed crystal is introduced in the form of a cube of already-frozen water. As soon as it’s introduced, the liquid phase rapidly crystallizes and attaches to the solid one, kicking off a chain reaction of ice-formation.Water that freezes as it’s being poured out of the bottle also solidifies upon exposure to a seed crystal, which, in this case, is an already-frozen surface. This is similar to the effect observed when freezing rain, supercooled by its flightpath through sub-freezing layers of atmosphere, comes into contact with an object cooled to a temperature below freezing. The result is a phenomenon known as glaze-ice, which – if you live somewhere cold – you may have seen before, coating the spindly extremities of tree branches.
DOES ANYONE WANT TO HEAR A JOKE ABOUT NITROGEN MONOXIDE?
NO.
There are no dumb questions on this blog, my friend! I’ll bet a bunch of people are currently reading this thinking MAN I’D REALLY LIKE TO KNOW THAT TOO.
So, let’s talk CHEMISTRY. When onions are grown, they absorb sulfur from the earth, which creates a kind of volatile, organic molecule called amino acid sulfoxides. These form sulfenic acids in the onion cells, and they’re kept separate from enzymes (complex proteins that cause chemical changes). By cutting an onion, you’re actually breaking its cells—so enzymes are now free to mix with the acids. Together they form a sulfur gas called propanethiol S-oxide, and this wafts right up towards your eyes without mercy.
When it reaches them, the gas reacts with the water in your eyes and forms a mild sulfuric acid, which is what causes the REALLY irritating pain. As a defence mechanism, you reflexively tear up to wash the irritant away.
So when you cry, it’s not due to being emotional about cooking, it’s because you have SULFURIC ACID IN YOUR EYES.
That’s pretty badass.
The first clinical trials began in Poland in December. The first patient who received the vein in the US has end-stage kidney disease and is one of 320,000 Americans who require hemodialysis. The engineered vein will increase blood flow during treatment. If the veins perform well during the clinical trials, they may be used in cardiac bypass surgeries.
More info: http://bit.ly/16YgOO9
Photo credit: Shawn Rocco, Duke Medicine
someone understands me
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Real Time With Bill Maher
i think i love his mind
