tag > Biology
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Electrifying rhythms in plant cells - Plant cells generate rhythms/oscillations in virtually all scales of spatiotemporal organization. 24 orders of magnitude in time 15 in space.
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Wild turtles age slowly. Some basically don’t age at all - New research finds that turtles in the wild age slowly and have long lifespans, and identifies several species that essentially don’t age at all.
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Aliens 👽
- Amino acids found in asteroid samples collected by Japan's Hayabusa2 probe
- China’s radio telescope detects first persistently active repeating fast radio burst from 3b light years away
- 4 hostile alien civilizations may lurk in the Milky Way, a new study suggests
- Aliens ‘could be common’ on planets orbiting stars similar to our sun, new study says
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"As a 'process of exteriorization,' technics is the pursuit of life by means other than life" . - Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time
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All of humanity compressed into one giant ball of goo
If you blended all 7.88 billion ppl on Earth into a fine goo (density of a human=985 kg/m3, average human body mass=62 kg), you would end up with a sphere of human goo just under 1 km wide. This is a visualization of how that would look like in Central Park.
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How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? Estimate at about 117 billion members of our species
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Meet the psychobiome - Mounting evidence that gut bacteria influence the nervous system inspires efforts to mine the microbiome for brain drugs.
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The Visible Wavelengths on the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Related: Cthulhu Spectrum - #Science #Philosophy #Space #Complexity #Biology
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Life in the soil was thought to be silent. What if it isn’t? - A handful of scientists have started to train their ears to the worms, grubs and roots underground. They were not prepared for what they heard.
