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24 and from Australia. Science student and musician.

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Paramecium bursaria

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Even in his heart the Devil has to know the water level Are you writing from the heart?

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I’m in the middle of your picture Lying in the reeds

RADIOHEAD All I Need | From the Basement (2008)

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“He has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don’t want millions, but an answer to their questions.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“Eternity asks you and every one of these millions of millions, just one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

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Fish on Fire

Scientists have been lighting the dark inside living tissues with fluorescent molecules for decades. Continuing to tinker with new approaches, the chemicals inside this zebrafish go a step further – the difference, perhaps, between street lamps and security lights detecting something moving in the dark (albeit 10000 times smaller). Zebrafish have much to tell us about our similar but more complex developing tissues. Spreading out inside the fish, each spot of light is a protein 'switch' that senses nearby calcium ions by changing shape – picking out sparks of calcium common in the early nervous system with tiny blazes of far red light using fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy. The colour choice is deliberate – far red light can shine from deep in the fish’s tissue and allows more common, green, blue and red fluorescent proteins to be used in combination and hinting at more ingenious tools to come.

Written by John Ankers

Video from work by Helen Farrants and colleagues

Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA

Video contributed by the authors under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence

Published in Nature Methods, September 2024

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The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, 2002

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“It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

— George Carlin

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Spreading the Word

Just as prairie dogs bark to warn the colony of danger, many plants can signal their neighbors when they’re under attack. This thale cress releases calcium when caterpillars eat it; neighboring plants pick up the chemical signal and pass it along. (Image and research credit: Y. Aratani et al.; via Colossal) Read the full article

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