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(via Measuring altitude — with clocks?)

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(via The sound of molecules: NMR-inspired music) image: © Thanos Andreou

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ESOF and the gimungous telescope

Highlights from the recent EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) conference held in Manchester (actually, pre-ESOF). Science was everywhere, even out by the sheep

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Call for science-inspired art

A rant about right-brain/left-brain pseudoscience and a call for science-inspired art.

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Kosuke Morita and Kouji Morimoto talked to reporters on Thursday morning about how they came up with name "nihonium" for element 113. (via Why “nihonium”?)

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Organ regeneration in the lab | It Ain't Magic

Interview with Takashi Tsuji, team leader of the Laboratory for Organ Regeneration at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology

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Plum tree blossoms, Saitama, Japan [4160x2340], [OC] / via

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Yay, saitama!

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From lampreys to Godzilla

Thoughts on evolutionary morphology, sci-fi monsters, and more with Chief Scientist Shigeru Kuratani.

Read my interview with an awesome evolutionary morphologist/developmental biologist!

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Interview with award-winning scientist Yuko Kiyosue

We interviewed Dr Yuko Kiyosue and discussed her involvement in making the 3D images of living cells that gained her and her colleagues a recent award.

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(via Air Bonsai: Levitating Magnetic Bonsai Trees by Hoshinchu | Colossal)

Yep, NEED one of these!

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I guess I'll have the electricity ...

Learn what electrolithoautotrophs are and how the scientists proved that A. ferrooxidans can use electric potential to fuel growth.

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Element 113: "discovery" or not? | It Ain't Magic

We asked Dr. Morita whether he thinks his team "discovered" or "created" element 113

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Black smokers and electroecosystems | It Ain't Magic

Black smokers are deep-sea hydrothermal vents found in the ocean. Now scientists believe that they may host electroecosystems in which the primary producers use electric currents as their energy source.