The molding city is a photo installation from a swedish artist and theatre deisgner Johanna Mårtensson. It was built completley out of bread and then the artist just let it mold, and photographed the process.
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This is a bacteria belonging to the genus Streptomyces. You may recognize it by its earthy odor. It is the bacteria that is responsible for the wet pavement smell when it rains after a dry spell!
8 brilliant scientific screw-ups
Anesthesia (1844)
Mistake leading to discovery: Recreational drug use
Lesson learned: Too much of a good thing can sometimes be, well, a good thingFor decades Nitrous oxide was considered no more than a party toy. Finally, in 1844, a dentist came upon the idea after witnessing a nitrous mishap at a party. High on the gas, a friend of fell and suffered a deep gash in his leg, but didn’t feel a thing. In fact, he didn’t know he’d been seriously injured until someone pointed out the blood pooling at his feet.
7 other accidental scientific discoveries
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Anonymous asked: what is the basic difference between gene or allele
Genes are the sequence of DNA that code for a specific trait whereas alleles are variations of that trait. For example, you can have a gene that makes your hair brown but there are different alleles of that trait that can make a persons hair blonde, black, or red. I hope that helped :)
Mouse fetuses will send stem cells into their mother’s heart to repair damage – and perhaps boost their own survival prospects
All I could think of while reading this article was Stargate and the Goa’uld symbiotic relationship with their hosts…..shocking revlation, human fetus are actually evil alien overlords! XD
