Chemistry can be cute and fluffy too 🥹
Chemist, Pichayut Tananchayakul, researches thiophene-based materials for organic electronic devices, like photovoltaic cells.
Whilst he was finishing purifying a precursor to one of his target molecules, amazingly the material started crystallizing into this round cluster!
📷 Pichayut Tananchayakul
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Wow, that's a lot of teeth! 😬😲
This is a Pacific Stargazer or Astroscopus zephyreus, known as miraestrella perro in Spanish. This slightly terrifying but amazing fish was found in Mexico.
📷 iNaturalist/Alboerto Alcalá
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Nature can sure be... unusual! 😲😃🙆
People often mistake this hilarious oddity for a type of fungus. It's actually the fruiting body of a slime mold amoeba, Lycogala epidendrum, also known as "wolf's milk".
When they're not fruiting the amoeba ooze around as single-celled individuals engulfing other microbes. But when it's time to reproduce they aggregate into one giant cell with many nuclei to form this oddly rude-looking shape, which can leak out a pink slime. Here they form the spores for the next generation of amoeba.
📷 Björn S/CC BY-SA 2.0/Flickr
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#SciencePhotography Amazing photos of a drop of seawater... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-gorgeous-photos-capture-life-inside-drop-seawater-180981297/
#SciencePhotography Amazing... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-gorgeous-photos-capture-life-inside-drop-seawater-180981297/?utm_source=smithsonian-daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20230106-daily&spMailingID=47841342&spUserID=OTU2MzA2NjM5NTc3S0&spJobID=2380706964&spReportId=MjM4MDcwNjk2NAS2
Striking science photos indeed. Enjoy them and the short descriptions.
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https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-04372-2/index.html
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