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Fab #sciam story on space junk and what to do if it falls on your land. "SpaceX has provisional permission..to launch.. 42,000 Starlink satellites. Assuming each one.. lasts 5 years.. SpaceX will be [de-orbiting] burning up ~1 satellite per hour."😮 🔭🛰️🧪 📖: www.scientificamerican.com/article/spac...
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There are lots of botanical terms to describe the corolla (collective term for the petals). This week I’ll illustrate a few, starting with valvate. The petals (or corolla lobes) touch in bud but don’t overlap, like the 3 petals of Hydriastele dransfieldii (#Arecaceae). #corolla #Botany 🌾🧪
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We have GFP+ embryos! 🥳 CRISPR is officially up and running in the lab. 🐸 🧪
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🧪⚒️Today’s M7.1 earthquake off Mindanao recorded on my Raspberry Shake in Kuala Lumpur. I’m currently finishing up a very special mud volcano detective story, over a year in the making, that involves another big quake off Mindanao over 100 years ago…
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🧪 🦈 🐟 🦑 🧠 #shark #brain and #cranial #nerves I'll be unpacking these in the coming days (discussing about 3 per day). So, if you're interested check in each day.
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Here's a special #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD, it's the 1st ever penguin I saw in the wild, early January 2009. This particular Adélie penguin fooled me, since I sat there for about half an hour thinking it was about to dive into the water. It was not. It fell asleep. Laughing at me, I'm sure. 🧪🌍🦑🦉
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'Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the mid twentieth century, and remains stable for decades. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.' Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell
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Daily bunny no.2542 is out on a calm empty sea
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M20 Trifid Nebula, 2 hours #Svbony SV503 102ED #ZWO 533MC Pro #Astrophotography
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Fashionable dinosaur pants, Anchiornis huxleyi 🎨 🐡 🧪 🪶 #dinosaurs #paleontology
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the #house, #swallows #found ?that for why, #among the' zone of 'th' universe.
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Sweltering day (well UK style sweltering) and a few insects out for #insectweek :)) Dock bugs mating (Coreus marginatus); jewel beetle (Argrilus sp); spotted beetle (Ruptela maculata) and ruby-tailed wasp (cf Chrysis ignita agg). All found in an urban woodlands/grasslands #insects 📷 🧪 #biodiversity
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A few #wildflowers spotted whilst invert bothering - Rubus sp bramble flower, a favourite of bumblebees and others; Solanum dulcamara (bittersweet - beautiful and dainty member of the deadly nightshade, so look but don’t eat!) and Ballota nigra (black horehound) from the mint family 🌸 📷🧪
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1/n We recently built solar & wind power rafts to power equipment designed to reduce seal interactions with wild caught Baltic sea salmon. Getting caught in fish traps is bad news both for the seals & the fishers, & this research is helping to develop & test non-lethal mitigations. 🐟🦑🧪🎣🌏🌊
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the #house, #swallows #found ?that for why, #among the' zone of 'th' universe.
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