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A sea snake (Hydrophis elegans) has one lung, but also breathes through its skin.

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If beauty lies in symmetry, a human’s beauty is truly skin deep. That’s because when you look past our visible features and delve inside our bodies, symmetry is the exception to the rule: your stomach and heart are on the left side, your liver is on the right, and your right lung has more lobes than your left - for most people, that is.

Affecting as few as 1 in 20,000 people is a genetic condition known as situs inversus, where the internal organs are positioned in a mirror image to what’s considered normal. This doesn’t always happen with all of the organs at once: sometimes, it’s just the heart that’s flipped to the other side; other times several organs are flipped while others aren’t. By itself, situs inversus doesn’t usually cause harm, but it can come coupled with various other genetic conditions that can cause heart problems and other medical issues. The chances of a child being born with the condition are strikingly rare, but it does also happen with “mirror image” twins whose fertilized embryo splits late in its development.

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Dog or crab? (via Lollipop Kennels)

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Izzy & Zoë

“We are sisters!”

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Fibonacci all day, every day [http://bit.ly/2jiUBF6]

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This is the kind of trans activism I’ve been waiting for

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She’s going to save this nation

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it just… it just kept getting better

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being a macroorganism is so stressful. i want to know what my cells are doing. I don’t like how unsupervised they are

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plz don’t

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see you in hail

we-are-star-stuff

Scientists have cooled an object beyond the icy limits of known physics

For the first time, physicists have cooled a mechanical object to a temperature colder than previously thought possible, taking it below the so-called “quantum limit” and bending the laws of physics.

Using a new technique, the team managed to chill a microscopic mechanical drum to an unheard-of 360 microKelvin, or 10,000 times colder than the vacuum of space. It’s the coldest object on record.

“It’s much colder than any naturally occurring temperature anywhere in the Universe,” said team leader John Teufel from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado.

“The results were a complete surprise to experts in the field,” added one of the researchers, José Aumentado, in a press release.

The tiny drum was made up of a vibrating aluminium membrane - and the researchers were able to take it to less than one-fifth of a single ‘quantum’ lower than the laws of physics predict that temperatures can get. A quantum is used to describe a single packet of energy contained in a photon.

In fact, the team suggests the new technique is so powerful, it could theoretically be used to cool objects to absolute zero, or zero Kelvin - the temperature at which matter is devoid of nearly all energy and motion.

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