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Seven-transmembrane domain receptor (7TMR) #sciencejewelry1824 http://ift.tt/2aDy9RJ http://ift.tt/2nwghxu http://ift.tt/2necBTT

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I’m a sucker for some science-inspired fashion.

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Physicists just confirmed a pear-shaped nucleus, and it could ruin time travel forever

Nooooo.

Physicists have confirmed the existence of a new form of atomic nuclei, and the fact that it’s not symmetrical challenges the fundamental theories of physics that explain our Universe.

But that’s not as bad as it sounds, because the discovery could help scientists solve one of the biggest mysteries in theoretical physics - where is all the dark matter? - and could also explain why travelling backwards in time might actually be impossible.

“We’ve found these nuclei literally point towards a direction in space. This relates to a direction in time, proving there’s a well-defined direction in time and we will always travel from past to present,” Marcus Scheck from the University of the West of Scotland told Kenneth MacDonald at BBC News.

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Synthetic DNA can be programmed to robustly self-assemble into pre-defined nanoscale structures of nearly arbitrary 3D shape using the principle of scaffolded DNA origami, invented by Dr. Paul Rothemund in 2006. This website offers the free online resource DAEDALUS that automatically converts any 3D solid object specified using a simple Computer-Aided Design file into the synthetic DNA sequences that are needed to synthesize the target object. In short, DAEDALUS offers the ability to “print” your 3D nanometer-scale geometry in DNA. Via.

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Bear’s Head Tooth found in the Smoky Mountains

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Sharing this because I had NO IDEA that this is how they worked… 

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NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe takes a good look at amazing Jupiter, March 4, 1979.

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Location: Hawaiian Island of Maui Photo: Jeff Berkes

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Anyone want to drink tea with a giant isopod in it? This tea strainer is creepy AF and we love it. 📷: majyokkorei/Twitter http://ift.tt/292SZwr

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Song of the Sea

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😮Volcanic lightning!!⚡️🌋 📷: NASA #ScienceAlert http://ift.tt/1tuERAR

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Fingal’s Cave, Scotland

Scientists and geology students alike flock to this cave to study its surreal basalt formations, formed by the flow of lava approximately 60 million years ago. As the lava gradually solidified, the igneous rock cooled and contracted, creating cracks in a very unique pattern. Cracks grew in the efficient hexagonal shape as the lava cooled abnormally slowly and uniformly created hexagonal towers. The island of Staffa on which the cave is located is mostly comprised of these hexagonal columns.

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Storm coming up by tachherdokter

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Whisterious by zenera on Flickr.

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This 2,100-year-old computer could predict eclipses

But can it play games?

We are closer than ever to deciphering what has been called the world’s first computer.

The device, known as the Antikythera Mechanism, has been puzzling scientists for more than a century ever since it was discovered in an ancient Greek shipwreck in 1901.

In an event held at the Katerina Laskaridis Historical Foundation Library in Greece in June, an international team of researchers announced the results of a lengthy investigation into what might be the oldest computer in the world.

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