Neurons growing in a cell culture
These time lapse animations use phase contrast microscopy to show neural stem cells in a nutrient medium for 4 hours. They reveal the dynamic growth and recycling of dendrites and synapses as neurons establish relationships with each other. The social behavior of these cells creates the incredible properties of the mind and brain.
Credit: University of Victoria Medical Sciences
Your brain is doing this RIGHT NOW. Re-wiring as you remember something or learn something, constantly changing.
Science Day in India, posting whole series of Scientists, their inventions or discoveries.
Cells cultured along origami seams, prodded to self assemble into 3D shapes. Future applications include organ growth and drug delivery.
Awesome! If you missed this cellular origami technique a couple weeks ago, you can read about it in this post of mine from a couple weeks ago. On a side note, I’m always happy when people turn science into GIFs.
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Came across this in the Love Actually tag.
Died. Came back as a zombie. Died again.
alright. i’m out.
Dead
Played times.
Surrounding our planet are rings of plasma, part of Earth’s magnetosphere, which are pulsing with radio waves. Those waves are not audible to the human ear alone, but radio antennae can pick them up, and that’s just what an instrument - the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) - on NASA’s recently launched Radiation Belt Storm Probes has done.
The noises, often picked up here on Earth by ham-radio operators, are called Earth’s “chorus” as they are reminiscent of a chorus of birds chirping in the early morning.
Here’s your planet, singing its song into space.
If Westeros had a picture book to teach preschoolers the house sigils and words, Eric Carle would write and illustrate it. Inspired by Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
This pretty much made my day.
Endless feels.
(Source: khaleesa)
Oh man, this would be great. I need want more gameboards being turned into furniture in my life.
(Source: risaaa23)
