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I poured all the galaxies in the Universe into a pool

Go to https://www.planetary.org/epic to become a member of The Planetary Society, joining their mission to increase discoveries in our solar system and beyond, elevate the search for life outside our planet, and decrease the risk of Earth being hit by … Continue reading

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At 50, Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition Magnifies the Minuscule | Colossal

October 21, 2024 Nature Photography Science Kate Mothes Steven A. Valley, Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) Entomology Lab Albany, Oregon. Immature male damselfly (Calopteryx aequabilis). All images © the photographers, courtesy of Nikon’s Small World Nikon’s Small World 2024 Photomicrography … Continue reading

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EXTREMELY RARE PIEBALD MOOSE SPOTTED IN MAN’S BACKYARD IN NORWAY

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Red-crowned Barbet

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Ten years of neuroscience at Google yields maps of human brain | Google Research – Blog

May 2, 2024 Viren Jain, Research Scientist and Technical Lead, Connectomics at Google Researchers built a 3D image of nearly every neuron and their connections within a small piece of human brain tissue. The left [top] image shows excitatory neurons … Continue reading

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Whistles, songs, boings, and biotwangs: Recognizing whale vocalizations with AI | Google Research – Blog

September 18, 2024 Lauren Harrell, Data Scientist, Google Research We introduce our new whale bioacoustics model, which can identify eight distinct species, including multiple calls for two of those species. The model also includes the “Biotwang” sounds recently attributed to … Continue reading

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This intricate map of a fruit fly brain could signal a revolution in neuroscience | Aeon Videos

This video features images of the largest and most complex brain ever fully mapped by scientists – that of an adult fruit fly. To bring these detailed images to life, it took scientists from 146 labs and 122 institutions in … Continue reading

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Euclid’s 208-Gigapixel glimpse into the Universe

Discover the first page of ESA Euclid’s great cosmic atlas and marvel at millions of stars and galaxies captured in pristine detail, in a huge 208-gigapixel mosaic. The mosaic covers an area of the Southern Sky more than 500 times … Continue reading

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Honey bees hauling pollen in slo-mo

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Close-up of a human molar tooth

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