thelifeguardlibrarian:

The last big bang :

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory looks at life after the Tevatron, its giant particle collider, while farmers look back on a prairie that used to be theirs

jtotheizzoe:

Humans fire laser to sky, sky laughs, responds with lightning

(They were actually firing a kind of “guide star” that is used to target and correct ground-based telescopes when this shot happened. Nature is still not impressed)

(via Short Sharp Science)

(via jtotheizzoe)

scientificillustration:

Skull of a Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex)

From: ‘On the osteology of Balaeniceps rex (Gould)’ by W. Kitchen Parker, 1860, Transactions of the Zoological Society of London Vol 4

(via biomedicalephemera)

kateoplis:

It’s blue, comes from a creature more ancient than dinosaurs, and saves countless human lives. +

Horseshoe crabs are creepy looking.  Now, more so.