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Courtship of the Peacock jumping spider in Australia.

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The Crystal Dome (by Swarovski)

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Stop everything you’re doing and go on a gorgeous journey through the universe:  Your spaceship? The web.

An army of penguins will be delivering your presents this year. (via Some Penguins Dressed Up In Christmas Outfits)

An army of penguins will be delivering your presents this year. (via Some Penguins Dressed Up In Christmas Outfits)

scinerds: Coral Autopsy Reveals Great Barrier Reef Collapse Nutrient-rich slurry from farms has been causing coral populations on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to crash for 90 years. The corals collapsed between the 1920s and 1950s, say John Pandolfi at the University of Queensland in Brisbane and his colleagues. The team took cores from three reefs and worked out when the corals died. Two had little coral left after the 1950s, while the third had been colonised since then by different types. By the 1920s, European settlers were farming intensively near rivers flowing onto the reef, boosting agricultural run-off by up to a factor of 20. Events like cyclones kill coral, but the extra nutrients in the water help seaweed move in afterwards, preventing coral from regenerating, says Terry Done of the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville, Queensland. The reefs were already in decline again when monitoring began in the 1980s, says Joana Figueiredo of James Cook University, also in Townsville. Pandolfi’s work shows that it was pristine until the 1920s. Journal reference: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2100

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Coral Autopsy Reveals Great Barrier Reef Collapse

Nutrient-rich slurry from farms has been causing coral populations on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to crash for 90 years.

The corals collapsed between the 1920s and 1950s, say John Pandolfi at the University of Queensland in Brisbane and his colleagues. The team took cores from three reefs and worked out when the corals died. Two had little coral left after the 1950s, while the third had been colonised since then by different types.

By the 1920s, European settlers were farming intensively near rivers flowing onto the reef, boosting agricultural run-off by up to a factor of 20. Events like cyclones kill coral, but the extra nutrients in the water help seaweed move in afterwards, preventing coral from regenerating, says Terry Done of the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville, Queensland.

The reefs were already in decline again when monitoring began in the 1980s, says Joana Figueiredo of James Cook University, also in Townsville. Pandolfi’s work shows that it was pristine until the 1920s.

Journal reference: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2100

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Stephen Hawking at age 21 (1963). More photos from the shoot at http://www.howardgrey.com/sets/stephen-hawking/ . letsdolaunch: Young Stephen Hawking.

Stephen Hawking at age 21 (1963). More photos from the shoot at http://www.howardgrey.com/sets/stephen-hawking/ .

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Young Stephen Hawking.

trextrying: T-Rex Trying to Take his own Profile Pic… #TRexTrying

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T-Rex Trying to Take his own Profile Pic…

#TRexTrying

Even Victorian microscope slides were beautifully ornate

Even Victorian microscope slides were beautifully ornate

2020: The beginning of an era of digital medicine: Digestible microchips embedded in drugs are the first ingestible devices approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

2020:

The beginning of an era of digital medicine: Digestible microchips embedded in drugs are the first ingestible devices approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

biocanvas: The reproductive branches of Amansia, a red seaweed, at 100-times magnification. Image by Dr. John Huisman, Murdoch University.

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The reproductive branches of Amansia, a red seaweed, at 100-times magnification.

Image by Dr. John Huisman, Murdoch University.

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