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Why Are So Many Deep Sea Creatures Red?
Red light does not reach ocean depths, so deep-sea animals that are red actually...
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Happy Mother’s Day!
Here’s a great photo of UCLA’s Anna Fisher: the first mother in space.
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Giant Asian Mantis (Hierodula patellifera)
by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr.
Pu’er, Yunnan, China
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every 17 years these cicadas come out of the ground, by the billions, along the east coast of the u.s. they are due any day now.
they have sex for...
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Been sketching things - will reupload over at dA eventually with better editing of two pages. It’s nearly finals; I’m lazy.
Cicadas are cool.
212 years ago today on May 2, 1800, English natural philosopher and chemist William Nicholson and English surgeon Sir Anthony Carlisle discovered electrolysis. By passing an electric current through water they decomposed water into its constituent elements of hydrogen and oxygen. The word they chose to describe this process is a combination of two Ancient Greek words, electron meaning amber and luo (in the form lysis) meaning to free.
Image of Hoffman Electrolysis Apparatus by Ivan Akira under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.
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Two hundred and twelve years later we are still doing this experiment in senior high school chemistry classes !
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