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Full Size Dinosaur Model from Recycled Materials at The Potteries Museum and Gallery, Stoke on Trent, 5.10.19.
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Staffordshire Hoard Decorated Panels, The Potteries Museum and Gallery, Stoke on Trent, 5.10.19.
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To survive its first few days of life, the P. hirtus railroad worm must switch on natural lights. In tiny spots along its back an enzyme called luciferase sets to work on a chemical called luciferin, producing bright yellow-green luminescence to scare predators. But that’s not all – the worm carries a different form of luciferase which produces red ‘head lights’, helping the worm to see in the dark. Finding differences in the molecular structures producing these different colours, researchers seized an opportunity – combining natural luciferases with artificially altered luciferin molecules, produces a bright red light in the lab. Shining at the far-red end of the visible spectrum, this ‘new’ colour can be adapted to shine inside human cells – in tissues where yellow-green luminescence is too readily absorbed and lost – potentially revealing details about our circulatory system and muscles.
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The Galaxy Above
Image Credit & Copyright: Rodrigo Guerra
Explanation: Have you contemplated your home galaxy lately? If your sky looked like this, perhaps you’d contemplate it more often! The featured picture is actually a composite of two images taken last month from the same location in south Brazil and with the same camera – but a few hours apart. The person in the image – also the astrophotographer – has much to see in the Milky Way Galaxy above. The central band of our home Galaxy stretches diagonally up from the lower left. This band is dotted with spectacular sights including dark nebular filaments, bright blue stars, and red nebulas. Millions of fainter and redder stars fill in the deep Galactic background. To the lower right of the Milky Way are the colorful gas and dust clouds of Rho Ophiuchus, featuring the bright orange star Antares. On this night, just above and to the right of Antares was a bright planet Jupiter. The sky is so old and so familiar that humanity has formulated many stories about it, some of which inspired this very picture.
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Education and Public Outreach Coordinator
Joint ALMA Observatory, Santiago — Chile
Phone: +56 2 2467 6519
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, Tokyo — Japan
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Public Information Officer
National Radio Astronomy Observatory Charlottesville, Virginia — USA
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Mariya Lyubenova
ESO Outreach Astronomer
Garching bei München, Germany
Phone: +49 89 32 00 61 88
Email: mlyubeno@eso.org
Meet the ‘mold pigs’ a new group of invertebrates from 30 million years ago http://www.geologypage.com/2019/10/meet-the-mold-pigs-a-new-group-of-invertebrates-from-30-million-years-ago.html
Meet Siamraptor suwati, a new species of giant predatory dinosaur from Thailand http://www.geologypage.com/2019/10/meet-siamraptor-suwati-a-new-species-of-giant-predatory-dinosaur-from-thailand.html
Ice core source discovery adds to study of volcanic activity, climate system interactions http://www.geologypage.com/2019/10/ice-core-source-discovery-adds-to-study-of-volcanic-activity-climate-system-interactions.html
Prospecting for gold just got a lot easier http://www.geologypage.com/2019/10/prospecting-for-gold-just-got-a-lot-easier.html
Liddicoatite | #Geology #GeologyPage #Minerals
Locality: Malkhan, Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russian Federation
Size: 7.8 × 7.6 × 0.4 cm
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Opal | #Geology #GeologyPage #Minerals
Locality: Saricakaya, Eskişehir Province, Central Anatolia, Turkey
Size: 11.1 × 9.2 × 4.2 cm
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Staffordshire Hoard Helmet Reconstruction, The Potteries Museum and Gallery, Stoke on Trent, 5.10.19.
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Fluorite | #Geology #GeologyPage #Minerals
Locality: Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
Size: 5.1 × 5.7 × 4.7 cm
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Distinguishing earthquake foreshocks and aftershocks http://www.geologypage.com/2019/10/distinguishing-earthquake-foreshocks-and-aftershocks.html
Tourmaline Var Indicolite & Quartz | #Geology #GeologyPage #Minerals
Locality: Kanakana Village, Darra-I-Pech Pegmatite Field, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
Size: 6.3 × 5.3 × 3.5 cm
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During birth, a human baby has to twist around and squeeze its relatively large head and shoulders through mum’s pelvis on its journey to the outside world, often needing assistance from a helper such as a midwife along the way. For our primate relatives, whose babies have smaller heads, the process of birth is much shorter and less arduous. So, when did things change, and why? One new clue comes from these computer reconstructions of the fossilised pelvis of our human ancestor, Australopithecus sediba, who lived nearly two million years ago. Although an ancient Australopithecus baby’s head entered the pelvis in the same way as a human infant, there’s more space. This means there’s no need for the complex twisting manoeuvres of modern childbirth. By comparing this reconstruction with older fossils and modern mothers, researchers are starting to build up a picture of how the mechanics of childbirth have evolved.
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