fybiology:

expose-the-light:

Bacteria Friends by Alison Kim

so many cute science thingss

youmightfindyourself:

“Icebergs are very much like us in that they have their own unique personality. They behave in their own unique way to their circumstances and their environment. Some will just for no reason collapse into the sea, while others will roll and turn. They won’t give up. They just keep going.” -Camille Seaman

fybiology:

(via Kuriositas: Fly Geyser – Not Quite of this World)

“Yet the alien looking mound is something quite extraordinary, especially with its myriad of colors. The other factor in the strange coloration of the mound is the fact that it is covered with thermophilic algae which as a heat tolerant microorganism thrives in this sort of hot environment.”

utnereader:

How does a bicycle work? Turns out, not exactly how we’d thought … Many of us can repeat the conventional grade-school wisdom that the gyroscopic effect is the magical stabilizer of the spinning bike wheel—but scientists are finding that the physics of biking are much more complex than this, reports Science News. They are learning this in part by trying to knock over moving bikes. Read more …

juliasegal:

Balloon Dinosaur

laughingsquid:

Anatomically Correct Human Heart Made of LEGO

scienceisbeauty:

Truly amazing, well done:

Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion.

Credit&Source: Simple Harmonic (and non-harmonic) Motion, Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations

utnereader:

In 1990 the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) attempted to remedy more than a hundred years of mistreatment, however well-intentioned, of aboriginal remains. The law required federally funded researchers and museums to return artifacts and human bones to tribes that could demonstrate a meaningful link to them. A recent amendment to NAGPRA is shaking up the arrangement. Through the 2010 revision, all Native American remains—even those that don’t have a tie to a particular community—are to be part of the repatriation process. Read more …

sexismandthecity:

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian: Валенти́на Влади́мировна Терешко́ва; Belarusian: Валянціна Уладзіміраўна Церашко́ва) (born March 6, 1937) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut, and was the first woman in space. She was selected out of more than four hundred applicants, and then out of five finalists, to pilot Vostok 6 on the 16 June, 1963, becoming both the first woman and the first civilian to fly in space,^[1] as she was only honorarily inducted into the USSR’s Air Force as a condition on joining the Cosmonaut Corps. During her three-day mission, she performed various tests on herself to collect data on the female body’s reaction to spaceflight.

Before being recruited as a cosmonaut, Tereshkova was a textile-factory assembly worker and an amateur parachutist. After the dissolution of the first group of female cosmonauts in 1969, she became a prominent member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, holding various political offices. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, she retired from politics, but remains revered as a hero in post-Soviet Russia.