In This Video, Mixtures Of Inks (likely Printer Toners) And Fluids Move And Swirl. Magnetic Fields Contort

Read what it was like to witness the Challenger disaster in person at the Washington Post.

Periodic table showing the cosmogenic origin of each element.

Via APOD

Original source: Wikimedia Commons (Nucleosynthesis periodic table)

Day 2 of our mushroom lab: running our sample through a DEAE-Sepharose column

Lovely crystallization effect from an extraction the other day

Small changes add up to big results. You can activate the movement. 

Tune into the livestream for the United State of Women Summit 6/14 here . GIF by Tumblr Creatr Thoka Maer

Stir, baby, stir

Device Rids Buses of Dangerous Pathogens The best place to enjoy a breath of fresh air may be a city bus, if Rice Univ. students have their way. A team of graduating seniors has created a system for public transit that would continually clear the air of pathogens that can lead to tuberculosis (TB), flu and pneumonia. The CityBusters – Joseph Spinella, Jerry Lue, Sundeep Mandava, Grace Ching and Shidong Chen, all seniors – have installed a $500 device on a METRO bus in Houston that has proven effective at killing 99.8 percent of the pathogens that circulate through the air-filtering system. The device, called FluProof, incorporates high-powered ultraviolet lamps that sterilize the air on the fly. Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Device-Rids-Busses-of-Dangerous-Pathogens-043012.aspx

mhm yes accurate

Starship Enterprise ~ John Berkey