fewdull:

“The surface of a microchip in a 3D reconstruction at 500x magnification”. More winners from a photomicrography contest here.

alanfriedman:

Nephelococcygia

It’s the long way of describing our love for seeing likenesses in the shapes of clouds. If you are bitten by this bug and find yourself with a solar telescope, watch out. The fantastic plumes of hydrogen plasma we call solar prominences seen at the edge of sun will tempt you to identify them in earthly forms. I once set out to classify a bunch and this was the result. A Yeti, a bonsai, Don Quixote, the angel that fell to earth… there’s even one that looks like me or did, when I wore a goatee. Click on the picture to see the big version from my website. Each image there is a hot link to a little bit of averted imagination. Enjoy!

discoverynews:

The Weather On Other Planets

We might be inclined to believe that the weather on Earth is sometimes less than hospitable to the life that inhabits it.

But compared to other planets, stars and bodies in the cosmos, the weather on Earth is downright mild.

In fact, the storms on this tiny brown drawf located approximately 47 light-years away blow any earth storm away.

Here’s a look at the weather on planets and galaxies near and far.

approachingsignificance:

This is a real image taken by the robotic spacecraft Cassini of Saturn eclipsing the sun (via).

Amazing.  There is a little blue dot on the left side of the image just above the bright main rings.  That is Earth, approximately a billion miles away.

Not psychology related, just an incredible image.  Click for high resolution to see Earth.

discoverynews:

Martian Life’s Last Stand

If there was life on Mars, scientists may have found its final resting spot.

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emergentfutures:

Ain’t No Science Fiction, Suspended Animation Is FDA Approved and Heading To Clinical Trials

The idea is simple: slow a person’s metabolism to such a crawl that the process of dying from say, a gunshot wound, is held in check. Like an animal in hibernation breathing, heartbeat, brain function and general metabolic functions are slowed drastically

Full Story: Singularity Hub

discoverynews:

NASA’s Asteroid Mission in the Sea

NEEMO will send a six-person team to an underwater laboratory near Key Largo, Florida, to “field test” new technologies for a possible manned mission to an asteroid in the future.

discoverynews:

Happy Birthday, H.G. Wells.

Here’s a look at how Wells’ fictional visions became 21st-century reality.

For one, the title of one of his books foretold one of the greatest technological achievements in the history of humankind: landing men on the moon.

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