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I FUCKING LOVE MERGING UNETHICAL SCIENCE WITH OCCULTIST MAGIC! I LOVE UNVEILING FORBIDDEN SECRETS MANKIND WAS NOT MEANT TO KNOW! I LOVE SUCCUMBING TO UNENDING TORMENT BROUGHT ON BY OUR OWN HUBRIS!
WHY ARE THEY SO SMALL! I NEED THEM TO BE BIG SO THAT I CAN PET THEM!
Take a break, this cute tardigrade needs time to cross your dash:
400x, assumed young Daphnia exoskeleton. Absolutely covered in bacteria
WORM!! WORM!!!
i just realised my phone has a MICROSCOPE
this is gonna be so cool for photo collages and edits
“A young scientist who worked in the jungles of Thailand has been awarded a national prize for his invention of a $2 paper microscope that can be taken on field expeditions.
If a scientist wants to study something at the microscopic level, they need a microscope, which if they are deep in the Amazon Rainforest presents a serious problem.
Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash saw in his team’s $50,000 microscope a serious contradiction. As well as being bulky and ridiculously challenging to transport to remote locations, it needed training from skilled technicians to know how to use it. It also had to stay well out of the weather and other environmental impacts.
So he invented a portable one. Costing $1.75, the Foldscope has a 140x zoom, which is a small enough field to see a malaria parasite inside a cell…
“I want to bring science into everyone’s hands, make it more personal,” Prakash told CNN. “We have decoupled everyday life from the process of science.”
The ultimate in schoolhouse science, Prakash’s invention has sold 1.6 million units, mostly to schools in America, but serious scientists are also using it—like Dr. Kirti Nitnaware in India who works on the isolation and characterization of bioactive metabolites in cyanobacteria.
She used the Foldscope last year to isolate a new species of cyanobacteria. For this and other reasons, Prakash received the 2022 Golden Goose Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), parent company of the scientific journal, Science.
“The Golden Goose Award reminds us that potential discoveries could be hidden in every corner and illustrates the benefits of investing in basic research to propel innovation,” said Sudip S. Parikh, chief executive officer at AAAS.” -via Good News Network, 9/20/22
Insect wings. Martin Gerlach, photographer. Formenwelt aus dem Naturreiche. 1904.
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