Lost in a metabolic pathway

Science, biology, biochemistry...life.

[yoursummerdreamz]

[rubisc0]

Every year 1,3 billions tons of food is wasted, 4 times the required amount to feed 805 millions of hunger people. 

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[biological-chemistry]

How is gene editing different from GM? 

[rubisc0]

The new pest of north of Italy, Halymorpha halys. A real fucking invasion. 👹 #bmsb #brownmarmoratedstinkbug #stinkbug #insects #pest #Italy #agriculture #entomology #insectsofinstagram #vsco #vscobest #vscogood_ #vscocam #bestoftheday #vscogood

[rubisc0]

Same day...Same number of eggs...I think that something's gone wrong 🙈 #vsco #vscocam #vscobest #bestofvsco #instavsco #science #entomology #lab #plodia #lepidoptera #bestoftheday #insects #university

[rubisc0]

Using Science on Christ

[rubisc0]

From my trip in belgium, cute ❤

[sixpenceee]

A graduate student has created the first man-made biological leaf. It absorbs water and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen just like a plant. He did this by suspending chloroplasts in a mixture made out of silk protein. He believed it can be used for many things but the most striking one is the thought that it could be used for long distance space travel. Plants do not grow in space, but this synthetic material can be used to produce oxygen in a hostile environment. (Video)

[compoundchem]

With autumn on the horizon, this graphic looks at the chemicals behind the myriad colours of autumn leaves; bigger version & download here: http://wp.me/p4aPLT-sn

[itsokaytobesmart]

Apparently there are places in the world where this is starting to happen? I wouldn’t know since Austin still has the summer dial turned up to like 8.5, and our trees don’t so much “change color” as “exhaustedly whither into a brown winter dormancy as if finally exhaling after the release of soul-crushing weight.”

This color-changing thing sounds nice though, I hope to check it out sometime!

PS - “Autumnal carotenoids” would make a great indie band name.

[rubisc0]

Help me to figure out what species is this!!! 

[mathleticism]

*realizes joy division did some real quick fs photoelectron spectroscopy for their dumb album cover*

[itsokaytobesmart]

1) Joy Division’s 1979 Unknown Pleasures album cover actually features a data visualization from the first known pulsar, PSR B1919+21, discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell in 1967, and discovered by the band’s drummer in the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy.

2) It is not dumb.

[beatricebiologist]

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[beatricethebiologist]

[brilliantbotany]

This is perfect.

[4gifs]

[rubisc0]

morta

[rubisc0]

La luce solare è una risorsa, e le piante competono per essa: un esempio è dato da questa immagine dove dei Prunus serrulata crescono lateralmente per sfuggire alla zona d'ombra creata dalle querce che hanno affianco. In questo modo riescono a ricevere la luce necessaria per la fotosintesi e quindi per vivere; questo fenomeno è noto come Eliotrpismo o Fototropismo ed è comune in tutte le piante. 

[niccoloh]

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“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music." | Betrand Russell

[brainsandbodies]

From The Scientist

Ancient giant virus, buried for 30K years, discovered in Siberian permafrost & reincarnated in the lab.

http://bit.ly/1fEIOnR