multipletrees:

oldowan:

I’m pretty sure this has made the rounds, but it’s cool enough for another go.

crownedrose:

Here, have an animation of a human skull… exploded and labelled.

This is by the team over at WitmerLab, which do my awesome dinosaur skull CT scans!

Pretty cool, right?

yes good

This is where I go to school! Dr. Witmer does really cool work at OU, especially with dinosaurs. I work in a different lab, but the biology/medicine community at OU is a really cool thing to be a part of.

fullbloom:

(via Kacie Mills. « Present&Correct)

sciencecenter:

I’ve had a handful of interactions with police officers, and I’ve always walked away unscathed. Some would even say there’s a science to avoiding a ticket. But that’s not the subject of this post. Instead, read about the ballsiest ticket dodger I’ve ever heard about: a UCSD physicist who wrote a mathematical proof

Add this to your list of reasons to become a scientist. No more tickets!

(Source: Wired)

fuckyeahspaceexploration:

Timeline #1

1658: English mathematician Isaac Newton publishes the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, otherwise known as the Principia. In it, he outlines the laws of motion, his theory of universal gravitation, and a derivation of Kepler’s laws.

Without any of this, we could not even contemplate space travel. It is quite difficult to overstate what a pivotal moment this played in history.

sugaratoms:

Monica, along with Professor Daniel Robert at the University of Bristol in the UK and professor Stefano Mancuso at the University of Florence in Italy, found that the roots of young plants emitted and reacted to particular sounds.

They established that young roots of corn made regular clicking sounds.

They also found that when the roots were suspended in water, they leaned toward the source of a continuous sound emitted in the region of 220Hz, which was within the frequency range that the same roots emitted themselves.

Their research concluded that in addition to other forms of sensory response, “it is very likely that some form of sensitivity to sound and vibrations also plays an important role in the life of plants”.

The researchers’ findings have been published in the international journal Trends in Plant Science.

(Source: australiangeographic.com.au)

brain-food:

Cult video games for natural conservation by Alexander Nedelev

Moth

lindasinklings:

color.

via (elorablue)

Estuary.

fullbloom:

moth (by m. lewandowski)

genannetics:

Tasmanian tiger likely doomed by genetics - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience - msnbc.com

It was hunted to extinction, but lack of genome diversity reduced any chance of survival

“Even if humans hadn’t hunted the Tasmanian tiger to extinction, its low genetic diversity may have naturally doomed the curious marsupial, researchers have found.

“We found that the thylacine had even less genetic diversity than the Tasmanian devil,” study researcher Andrew Pask, of the University of Connecticut, said in a statement. “If they were still be around today, they’d be at a severe risk, just like the devil.” “

The study was published Wednesday in the journal PLoS ONE.

By Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience