Category: science
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COVID-19 – Structure Explained
Awesome overview about the structure of the COVID-19 virus. You hear all these things about spike proteins and how everything goes together. This video really puts it into context.
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Psychedelic Moon Map
The United States Geological Survey published a new moon map from data of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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I (better) wear my sunglasses at Space-Night
Using data from the Fermi space telescope scientists have discovered a Star system that is bright AF! In their article published in The Astrophysical Journal, they describe that this is most likely comprised of a binary star system with a rapidly rotating neutron star as one part of the light emitting duet.
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Jupiter got a new profile picture taken by Hubble!
This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter, taken on June 27, 2019, reveals the giant planet’s trademark Great Red Spot, and a more intense color palette in the clouds swirling in Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere than seen in previous years. The colors, and their changes, provide important clues to ongoing processes in Jupiter’s atmosphere. NASA…
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Kurzgesagt – Complement System
Excellent video from kurzgesagt about the complement system. I knew next to nothing about this and I find it extremely interesting. “Cells that swallow you whole, trap you in a tiny prison and then kill you with acid”…
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Are we being exposed to unhealthy levels of radiation from our phones
Kurzgesagt did a nice video on the topic: <br /> Almost more valuable than the video is the amount of research that was gathered and made available here . If you are ever looking for information to enlighten people about this, this here is pure gold. Also some nice arguments should you ever encounter one…
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Neurons gotta Network
via dark roasted blend a video of neurons seeking to build connections. <br />
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The Bottom of the Marianna Trench Animal Crowd
For how desolate and strange a place this is, this is really a crowd
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Big Chunk of Metal Inside the Moon???
Researchers have detected a big mass/gravity anomaly basically under the moons largest observable point of impact. This was found within data from the (holy) GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) NASA mission. Maybe some nice metallic depostits from some huge AF asteroid crashing into the moon many billions of years ago? Maybe the base from…
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The Hayflick Limit
Great article by qz.com about how aging works on a molecular level: The Hayflick Limit