skarsgardianangel:

romannoodles:

madnessinthemusic:

duce-juice:

Can someone from the sciencey side of tumblr please explain this ?

This is called shape memory. It’s made from an alloy of titanium and nickel (I believe it’s called nitinol). It has the ability to “remember” the shape it’s taken.

When cold you can bend it whatever which way, but once you heat it (or in this case put it in what I presume is hot water) it will take the original shape.

WHAT!!?!?!?!?

 Coral sand by David Maitland, United Kingdom

The hard defensive calcarious structures (spicules) incorporated within the bodies of many soft-bodied marine invertebrates including Gorgonian corals, Sponges and Hoiothuria accumulate as “coral sand” on the sea floor and form a major constituent of many tropical white sandy beaches’.

actualholidaybakery:

ehretha:

A tip from your favorite nurse

(that’d be me)

Always have eggs in your fridge

You just never know when someone will split their head open

Or cut their finger while cooking

And so on

See that membrane there?

While the blood is gushing - hold pressure and crack open an egg

Peel that there membrane off and put it on the wound (continue holding pressure)

The membrane will harden and keep the wound closed until you can get to the ER for stitches

If you even need them that is

Nature: 1, Band aids: 0

You’re welcome.

I did some research on this (because I do that now, fucking science get out) and it seems that this was done in the early 1900s somewhat frequently. It was used as a way to treat just about any kind of skin wound, from burn to cut to in at least one case an ulcer. It actually helps the wound heal not by preventing blood loss but by replacing part of the skin tissue and helping it grow.

It also helps in healing scars and reducing their visibility.

Whoah science.

Neato.

Supercool.

(via N12 3D-printed bikini by Continuum Fashion and Shapeways - Dezeen)

(via 3D-printed dress for Dita Von Teese)

sirmitchell:

I can’t stop watching this. A simulation of the eventual collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies. 

Space makes so much more sense to me when sped up. As scary and violent as it seems, there would be very little colliding actually happening do to the insane amount space between objects. 

from Wikipedia: While the Andromeda Galaxy contains about one trillion (10¹²) stars and the Milky Way contains about three hundred billion (3x10¹¹); the chance of even two stars colliding is negligible because of the huge distances between each pair of stars. For example, the nearest star to the Sun is Proxima Centauri, about 3x10⁷ solar diameters (4x10¹³ km or 4.2 ly) away. If the Sun were a ping-pong ball in Paris, the equivalent Proxima Centauriwould be a pea-sized ball in Berlin (and the Milky Way would be about 1.9x10⁷ km wide, about a third of the distance to Mars).

(Source: dewogong)

thedailywhat:

Transformative Face Transplant of the Day: Richard Lee Norris, 37, was injured in a gun accident in 1997. In March, he was treated by a 100-strong team of doctors at the University of Maryland:

I am now able to walk past people and no one even gives me a second look.

Bonus: His new face takes off at least 10 years.

[dailymail]

photojojo:

This photo was shot with a slit camera! 

The Slate explains it well:

Jay Mark Johnson uses a slit camera that emphasizes time over space. Whatever remains still is smeared into stripes, while the motion of crashing waves, cars…are registered moment by moment, as they pass his camera by. 

Like an EKG showing successive heartbeats, the width of an object corresponds not to distance or size, but the rate of movement. Viewing the left side of the picture is not looking leftward in space but backward in time.

A Camera That Shoots Time

courtnog:

psychoactivelectricity:

Different densities of liquids