3d printed portraits derived from DNA taken off discarded gum and cigarette butts. When art and science combine.
3D printed portraits derived from synthesized DNA found on discarded gum and cigarette butts by Heather Dewey-Hagborg.
I remember reading about this! Creepy, yet fascinating ;)
A 54 year old woman was surgically intervened at Hospital Gandulfo in Lomas de Zamora, Argentina, where a gynecological surgical team extracted a 23 kg tumor from her uterus. The weight of the tumor is comparable to the weight of a 4 year old child.
The patient had been perceiving a growth in her abdomen for a year and a half before she decided to seek medical attention.
Tagged: #tumor #argentina #medical #science #surgery
Well, not actual giant spiders, but large spider decoys to deter potential predators and scare the shit out of prey. Making yourself looking bigger and scarier for offense and defense is pretty common in the animal world, but building a sculpture of a larger spider out of pieces of leaves and other debris is a much different and much more complex feat than just puffing out your chest.
2,000 ping pong balls and 30 teachers in low gravity
In 2010, before Northrop Grumman’s Weightless Flights of Discovery program was shut down, thirty teachers and two thousand ping pong balls took a ride in a vomit comet and this was the result.
The Peacock spider or Gliding spider (Maratus volans) is a species of jumping spider.
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge noted in his original description that “it is difficult to describe adequately the great beauty of the colouring of this spider”.
The red, blue and black colored males have flap-like extensions of the abdomen with white hairs that can be folded down. They are used for display during mating: the male raises his abdomen, then expands and raises the flaps so that the abdomen forms a white-fringed, circular field of color. The species, and indeed the whole genus Maratus have been compared to peacocks in this respect. The third pair of legs is also raised for display, showing a brush of black hairs and white tips. While approaching the female, the male will vibrate his abdomen while waving raised legs and tail, and dance from side to side.[1]
Both sexes reach about 5 mm in body length. Females and immatures of both sexes are brown but have colour patterns by which they can be distinguished from related species. [ read more ]
Paralyzed dogs can now be cured by transplanted cells from their noses into their spines
There’s little sadder than a paralyzed dog, and often little that can be done for it other than give it some doggy wheels. But new research has discovered that transplanting noses from the nerves in a dog’s nose into the dogs spine can restore spinal function.
Tagged: #science #dr brian fisher #snail
Pulp Science Non-Fiction
thedaintysquid: Minor Keys by ukaaa on Flickr.
Millions of people have rosacea, a common condition that gives you a red, rosy and slightly inflamed looking face. Bill Clinton has it. Prince Harry has it. And now, scientists know what causes it. Tiny anus-less mites. Tiny mites, without a butthole, eating your face, and when they die, they explode, staining your skin with their poop. Lovely.
sinobug: GREED. This large ambidextrous mantis was attracted to my MV moth light. It had almost demolished the beetle in the right claw, when this moth (which I was hoping to photograph) got too close and it was snapped up in the left claw. Minutes later, both carcasses were abandoned in preference for a huge silk moth. Pu’er, Yunnan, China. Click the image to see more Chinese praying mantids on my Flickr site…..
