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♥ May 23rd, 2012

♥ Apr 30th, 2012

ileftmyheartintokyo:

Cherry Blossom 2012. by toshyie on Flickr.

♥ Apr 30th, 2012

♥ Apr 29th, 2012

ikenbot:

Dangerous Sunrise on Gliese 876d
Illustration Credit & Copyright: Inga Nielsen (Hamburg Obs., Gate to Nowhere)
On planet Gliese 876d, sunrises might be dangerous. Although nobody really knows what conditions are like on this close-in planet orbiting variable red dwarf star Gliese 876, the above artistic illustration gives one impression.
With an orbit well inside Mercury and a mass several times that of Earth, Gliese 876d might rotate so slowly that dramatic differences exist between night and day. Gliese 876d is imagined above showing significant volcanism, possibly caused by gravitational tides flexing and internally heating the planet, and possibly more volatile during the day.
The rising red dwarf star shows expected stellar magnetic activity which includes dramatic and violent prominences. In the sky above, a hypothetical moon has its thin atmosphere blown away by the red dwarf’s stellar wind. Gliese 876d excites the imagination partly because it is one of the few extrasolar planets known to be in or near to the habitable zone of its parent star.

♥ Apr 29th, 2012

kateoplis:

One World Trade Center will soon overtake the Empire State Building as the city’s tallest building | NYT

♥ Apr 29th, 2012

fuckyeahmolecularbiology:

Once the basic shape of the eye is specified, cells within the optic cup differentiate, populating the retina with neurons that sense light and refine visual information before it is transmitted to the brain. In fish and amphibians, retinal stem cells are maintained throughout the animal’s lifetime in a stem cell niche located adjacent to the lens (seen in yellow above). This situ hybridization image of a zebrafish eye (from a ~3-day-old larvae) reveals gene expression patterns that distinguish retinal stem cells (red) from the cells that are becoming neurons (purple). By comparing gene expression patterns within the retinal stem cell niche in normal and mutant eyes, we gain insight into how stem cells turn into neurons.

♥ Apr 29th, 2012

♥ Apr 24th, 2012

♥ Apr 22nd, 2012

fuckyeahmolecularbiology:

Wide-field multi-photon fluorescence image of a rat hippocampus stained to reveal the distribution of glia (cyan), neurofilaments (green) and cell nuclei (yellow).
Image Source: the Whole Brain Catalogue.

♥ Apr 21st, 2012

tempsdelaventure:

Bloodmoon by astroferg on Flickr.

♥ Apr 21st, 2012

♥ Apr 21st, 2012

ikenbot:

Last Man Standing
by Oshin D. Zakarian
The Moon meets with Jupiter (middle) and Venus (upper middle) in the evening sky. The Pleiades star cluster in constellation Taurus is also visible above Venus.

♥ Apr 16th, 2012

When I Wear an Avocado Mask While on Skype with Jentzen

Jinneh says: -nuzzles-

Jinneh says: you're a beautiful alien

Jinneh says: 8D

Sakeh says: ...

Sakeh says: ._.

Sakeh says: *Goes away*

Jinneh says: can i catch you

Jinneh says: NOOOOOO

Jinneh says: YOU'RE RARE

Jinneh says: ;o;

Sakeh says: :<

Jinneh says: :<

Jinneh says: don't frown

Jinneh says: i have a nice jar for you

Jinneh says: ;o;

Sakeh says: ...

Sakeh says: ._.

Jinneh says: NOOOOOOOO

Jinneh says: you'll go on the best shelf

Jinneh says: 8D

Jinneh says: and i'll feed you 8D

Jinneh says: poffins

Jinneh says: and then i'll teach you tricks

Jinneh says: like thunderbolt

Jinneh says: and solar beam

*Sakuna goes AFK*

Jinneh says: ;o;

Jinneh says: NOOOOOOOOO

Sakeh says: ...

Jinneh says: a wild alien sake has ran away

Jinneh says: ;3;

♥ Apr 15th, 2012

fuckyeahmolecularbiology:

T cells are amazing white blood cells that play a crucial role in cell-mediated immunity. They can be divided into several categories - notably helper, cytotoxic, memory, regulatory, and natural killer (NK) - and their primary role within the immune system is to search out and destroy both invading pathogens and abnormal cells. Helper T cells also help to regulate the immune response.
The image above features a cytotoxic T cell, which destroy abnormal cells (most notably virally infected cells and tumour cells) and are also implicated in organ transplant rejection. Dendritic cells, pictured cyan blue in the photo, constitutively express high levels of both class I and class II MCH molecules - the type of receptor that cytotoxic T cells recognise - making them extraordinary potent activators capable of stimulating even “naive” T cells that have never encountered an antigen.

♥ Apr 15th, 2012

blamoscience:

The jellyfish Atolla lives worldwide in the deep sea, where light levels are very low. The jellyfish is bioluminescent — emitting blue-green light — and so are most of its prey. Scientists think that the deep red color of the animal’s stomach serves a purpose — to keep the blue light of its luminescent lunch from escaping and giving away Atolla’slocation to its own predators.