Neurons in the Brain
Flashes of light may one day be used to control the human brain, and that day just got a lot closer. (WIRED Magazine Science Article)
Steps of Scientific Method - Meme version
The man.
Coloured scanning electron micrograph of a deformed red blood cell (left) in sickle cell anaemia (drepanocytosis), a hereditary blood disease that affects Africans. Sickle cell disease is the production of abnormal haemoglobin (Hbs) in red blood cells. Hbs becomes insoluble when the blood is deprived of oxygen and precipitates, forming elongated crystals that distort the cell into the sickle shape. Sickle cells are rapidly removed from the circulation, causing anaemia. Right of the sickle cell is a normal biconcave red cell, an echinocyte (spiky) & a red cell beginning to sickle. Magnification: x1655 at 35mm size. Coloured pink.
Credit: JACKIE LEWIN, ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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What healing wound looks like on a microscopic level (via)
Long exposure photos of fireflies by Yuki Karo
This little guy is ready and eager to become the new meme.
Disapproving Otter……
“The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look Death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.”
Jupiter and Two of Its Moons
A “fire and ice” pair of Jupiter’s large moons — volcanic Io (lower left) and ice-sheathed Europa, which possesses a global ocean (upper right) — orbit across the face of the giant planet.
Credit: NASA; JPL; Paul Geissler; Michael Benson
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That is as the scientific journalism works. Mostly.
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