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This Is What the Oldest Living Organisms Look Like

by Noemi Twigg
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This Is What the Oldest Living Organisms Look Like

And I thought I was old! Thanks to the work of people like Rachel Sussman, I get a better perspective on age. ;) Seriously, though, her recent photography collection about some of the oldest living organisms on Earth is something to marvel at. She went trotting around the world to capture amazing things with her camera, bringing science to life for us. This photo is of Siberian Actinobacteria, which is supposed to anywhere from 400,000 to 600,000 years old. Ancient is an understatement! What’s even more amazing is that these organisms live in permafrost and they do DNA repair even in that state! This is La Llareta, or Yareta. Is Read more »

The Mothership Has Come. To Montana.

by Robin Parrish
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The Mothership Has Come. To Montana.

Have you ever in your life seen anything so freaky? It’s like concept art from an alien invasion movie. Seriously: wow. This is no visual effect. According to NASA, it’s an actual supercell storm cloud photographed this past July over Glasgow, Montana. If it looks like the biggest tornado ever, there’s good reason. Apparently it’s a “rotating updraft” spanning several kilometers, and dropping heavy rain and hurricane-force winds. NASA says that in this type of storm cell, it’s common for the outer edges to sport “jagged, sculptured clouds” while “wind swept dust and rain” are what’s coming down out of the center. That tiny little thing on the ground is Read more »

A personal plea

by Jim
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A personal plea

Here’s a concept design that inspires you (in a way) to seriously consider the smallest effort one needs to begin to lessen their negative impact on mother nature. Recycling used batteries may be a small task, but if one person doesn’t, their batteries pile up somewhere. Did you know that Americans dispose at the very least 1 billion batteries a year? That is a staggering figure considering that the USA is inundated with much material for environment care.? Read more »