(Source: brainparticlesinmysoup, via theblackship)
(Source: brainparticlesinmysoup, via theblackship)
The dehydration of sugar in sulfuric acid, science motherfuckers.
Mmmm, a nice steaming cup of-HOLY FUCK.
SUDDENLY SCIENCE.
coolest thing ever!
It’s like the teacup is punching the air in victory. I’ll have me a cuppa.
Science boner.
(via child-of-the-rain)
“You know what’s an irreversible waste of time, money and effort? Eating food you take pleasure in eating. I mean, wouldn’t you rather just ingest a tasteless form of sustenance for the rest of your life and never have to go through that tedious rigmarole of opening and eating a pre-made sandwich or enjoying a huge hungover fry-up ever again? Rob Rhinehart – a 24-year-old software engineer from Atlanta and, presumably, an impossibly busy man – thinks so.
Rob found himself resenting the inordinate amount time it takes to fry an egg in the morning and decided something had to be done. Simplifying food as “nutrients required by the body to function” (which sounds totally bulimic, I know, but I promise it’s not), Rob has come up with an odourless, beige cocktail that he calls Soylent….”
(Follow up site: http://robrhinehart.com/)
‘A Molecular Matchmaker’ from The Cell by John Pfeiffer (Life Science Library 1964/1969). Don’t get too romantic about it, though—enzymes are, by the laws of physics, just as good at splitting molecules up.
(Source: cmnotes, via turdlewexler)
Nikon has revealed the winners of this year’s Small World Photomicrography Competition! We selected a few of our favorites, but check out the entire eye-popping gallery below!
Winners of the 2012 Nikon Photomicrography Contest (Rad Science Pics!)
via Feature Shoot
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Butterflies scavenging dead fish
WHAT
do they eat meat
i was not aware of this
i hope butterflies do not eat my corpse
But it would be very pretty
so are they licking the saltwater off it or what because seriously, I am curious.
Some species of butterflies do in fact eat meat.
Wat
(via iimpavid)
Tim Tadder utilizes water’s natural surface tension to photograph these awesome underwater portraits! The expressions are absolutely priceless.
This is so cool