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Myth

[laboratoryequipment-blog]

Tool Explores Cells in 3-D Researchers can now explore viruses, bacteria and components of the human body in more detail than ever before with software developed at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI). In a study published online ahead of print by the journal Nature Methods, the researchers demonstrated how the software, called cellPACK, can be used to model viruses such as HIV. “We hope to ultimately increase scientists’ ability to target any disease,” said Art Olson, professor and Anderson Research Chair at TSRI who is senior author of the new study. Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/12/tool-explores-cells-3-d

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[yamaiko]

[aspiringdoctors-blog]

Dying.

[the-physics-obsession]

Love this man.

[txchnologist]

[medicalschool]

Scientists See Chemical Bonds Between Atoms

In an amazing work of microscopy, scientists have gotten a high-resolution view of a molecule and its chemical bonds. What’s more, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers got a peek at the molecule as it broke and reformed bonds after undergoing a chemical reaction.

Their images show a molecule, on the left above, which has 26 carbon and 14 hydrogen atoms structured as three connected benzene rings. The molecules on the right are the two most common products that result after the molecule is heated to 90 degrees Celsius.

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[scientiflix]

Dr. Madhav Chavan: Technology Alone Won’t Reform Education

Dr. Madhav Chavan describes how technological innovations are inherently non-linear, and therefor don’t easily transpose to the linear world of education.

Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/think-tank/dr-madhav-chavan-tech-ed

By: Big Think.

[mathed-potatoes]

When people ask me how I can be a math major and still say I’m not good with numbers, I’m like ‘here, let me draw you a picture.’

[allofthemath]

All so true.

[visualizingmath]

^For those that are considering majoring in math but are deterred by their lack of number skills, there’s definitely more to mathematics than simply numbers. (I’m not dissing stats or number theory or algebra though. Those are cool too!)

[running-geek]

The universe is huge and old and rare things happen all the time. Including life.

Lawrence Krauss (via running-geek)

[thisblogdeadyeet]

John Conway first theorized that it would be impossible to create a forever-expanding universe using these rules, which was proven wrong by a team at MIT, creating the “glider gun,” which is featured in the third gif. 

Since then, thanks to computers, people all over the world have added new designs to the database, creating amazingly complex designs.

For example Andrew J. Wade created a design which replicates itself every 34 million generations! Furthermore it is also a spaceship (permanently moving pattern) and not only that, it was also the first spaceship that did not travel purely diagonally or horizontally/vertically! These types of spaceships are now appropriately named Knightships.

The simulation has some interesting properties, for example it has a theoretical maximum speed information can travel. Or simply, light speed - as that is the limit in our own universe. The limit is set to 1 cell per generation - after all how can you create something further than 1 cell away in one generation if you can only effect your immediate neighbours? And yet you can get things like the ‘stargate’ (Love the name, huge SG fan here.) which allows a space ship to travel 11 cells in just 6 generations.

Some smart people have even designed calculators, prime number generators and other incredibly complex patterns.

You can create your own patterns here: http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/

All gifs were made from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vgICfQawE

[fastcompany]

When you’re just starting to learn something new, the errors that you experience are helping you learn faster.

Science Confirms It: If You Want To Succeed, You Have To Screw Up (via fastcompany)

[m-a-s-c-magazine]

[sagansense]

I always liked Carl’s assertion that celebrating scientific discovery and delighting in the pursuit of knowledge was no where comparable to communicating opinion, but rather, “informed worship.”

[pbsparents-deactivated20190820]

Make your own thermometer with this neat science project!

See more Full-Time Kid with Mya here. 

[fakescience]

Updated Science: Let's Keep Science In Our Schools

[fakescience]

As the return to school approaches, please check that your kids have a teacher that understands entanglement.

[post-mitotic-blog]

microscopic bone marrow transplant — hematopoietic stem cells (the immortal source of both red and white blood cells) poised in a syringe for transplant

colored SEM composite image

credit: Steve Gschmeissner

[beesandbombs]

[planetaryfolklore]

beesandbombs: hexagons / stars

[asapscience]

THE SCIENCE OF DEPRESSION What exactly is going on inside of a depressed person? We look at the scientific basis for depression, and shed light on the fact that it is a disease with biological, psychological, and social implications.

We can see it in our biology, in our genes and in our actions. For those who are depressed, it’s not simply something they can ‘get over’ and ‘be more positive about’. If you know somebody who is suffering, please be compassionate and know that depression is a serious illness and requires genuine recovery/help.