Arteriosclerosis occurs when the blood vessels that carry oxygen and nutrients from your heart to the rest of your body (arteries) become thick and stiff — sometimes restricting blood flow to your organs and tissues. Healthy arteries are flexible and... Continue Reading →
Blood vessels of the foal hoof with the chorion laminae and anatomical details of the vascularisation of the equine foot and hoof by German plastinator Dr. C. von Horst. Infographic: https://anatomicexcellence.com/about-plastination/plastination-process/
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art, write or draw or build or sing or... Continue Reading →
You are sitting quietly, and suddenly your brain tunes out the world and wanders to something else entirely — perhaps a recent experience, or an old memory. You just had a daydream. Yet despite the ubiquity of this experience, what... Continue Reading →
"Christmas tree worm" is the common name for a marine worm that lives on tropical coral reefs around the world. You won’t find Spirobranchus giganteus, also known as the Christmas tree worm, eating your fir tree this year. The common name for... Continue Reading →
Vision is a complex process. The visual perception of the environment is created by a combination of different wavelengths of light, which are decoded as colors and brightness in the brain. Photoreceptors in the retina first convert the light into... Continue Reading →
Why is this jellyfish swimming in a sea of stars? Drifting near bright star Eta Geminorum, seen at the right, the Jellyfish Nebula extends its tentacles from the bright arcing ridge of emission left of center. In fact, the cosmic jellyfish is part of bubble-shaped supernova... Continue Reading →
And so it feels like old movies and gingerbread, time to wear green and red or something like that. Christmas always feels like a combination of old memories and present to me.
The remotely operated facility aboard the International Space Station has created another tool that researchers can use to probe the fundamental nature of the world around us. For the first time in space, scientists have produced a quantum gas containing... Continue Reading →
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