The tumblr of UCMST.
Why did we get one?
I have no idea either.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Anatomy, just stretching a little ya know.
(Taken with Instagram at The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences)
B/W Mandelbrot set, zoomed at approx. 30 million.
Japanese cartoon on combinatorial explosion. (via Reddit)
Marine Conservation: Man saved by a shark after drifting in Pacific Ocean for 15 weeks
Yes, you read it. Not a dolphin or a turtle, but a shark. Another proof of how AWESOME sharks are.
In an extraordinary event, a police officer was rescued by a shark, which guided him to a rescue boat after he had drifted helplessly in the Pacific Ocean for 15 weeks.
Toakai Teitoi’s…
I love when people make genetics fun (and understandable)!
Flabellina rubrolineata by Arne Kuilman on Flickr.
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Molecular Art
Molecular biology professor and artist David Goodsell has no trouble finding art in the human body. His hand-drawn watercolor illustrations explode with color while offering his visual interpretation of bacteria, viruses, and human cells. *Click images to see caption.
The Super Kamiokande (Kamioka Neutrino Detection Experiment) is a neutrino observatory located under Mount Kamioka in Japan. It is designed to observe solar and atmospheric neutrinos, neutrinos from supernovae, and aims to search for proton decay. It is a cylindrical structure measuring about 40 m tall and 40 m across, is covered in over 11,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), and filled with 50,000 tons of pure water.
Neutrinos weakly interact with other particles, making it extremely difficult to detect them and observe their properties; in fact, they cannot be directed detected at all. Detectors are built underground to isolate it from other radiation. When a neutrino passes through the Super-K’s water tank, it will sometimes (hopefully) collide with a quark, causing it to change into a charged lepton (electron, muon, or tau). The very short version of what happens next is that the lepton will travel faster than the speed of light in water (not in vacuum), polarizing the water molecules; when they return to their ground state, Cherenkov radiation is emitted in a flash of light, which the PMTs detect. The last image is of a Cherenkov ring by an electron created from a neutrino collision in the Super-K, in perspective view.
Left lateral view of the arteries in the human brain by coloured resin cast. The brain requires more blood than any other organ - about 1/5 of the body’s total blood supply.
(Source: kazookle)