Simple Fluorometer Makes Nucleic Acid Detection Cheap And Easy

Back in the bad old days, dealing with DNA and RNA in a lab setting was often fraught with peril. Detection technologies were limited to radioisotopes and hideous chemicals like ethidium bromide, a…

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Attached: 1 image Another beautiful Martian vista, made out of just a small segment of a larger, 80-images mosaic, captured yestersol by Perseverance from the Pico Turquino outlook, somewhere on the slopes of the rim of Jezero Crater. #Mars Nov....

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Attached: 1 image We Are Here a beautiful visualization of Laniakea, our Home supercluster of galaxies, produced by Félix Pharand-Deschênes #laniakea #supercluster #galaxies #LaniakeaSupercluster #astronomy #cosmology #cosmography #universe...

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Attached: 4 images Mars: red alert The Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State University has just released a new batch of 52 Martian sols of images, captured by the Perseverance rover, and treated with their beautiful color processing. Check out these...

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Attached: 4 images Martian Marvels These freshly processed images by the Curiosity rover were captured on March 26, 2024 (Sol 4137) Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk #Curiosity #Mars #Sol4137 #rover #CuriosityRover #Martian #rocks...

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Attached: 1 image How amazing is that? A Martian Dust Devil captured in Stereo3D by the Opportunity Rover, March 31, 2016 (Sol 4332) To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye Credit images:...

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Attached: 3 images Some spectacular panoramas captured by the Martian rovers these past few days 1. Curiosity - Sol 4162 2. Perseverance - Sol 1130 3. Perseverance - Sol 1131 Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS &...

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Attached: 2 images Taylor Swift as an hypermagnetized neutron star #TaylorSwift #astrophysics #Swifties #neutron #star #neutronstar #magnetar #physics #astronomy #astrodon #meme #science #memes #sciencememes #space #STEM

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Attached: 1 image Here is roughly where Perseverance was located when she captured these gorgeous stereoscopic panoramas, as seen with Ryan Kinnett's fantastic Rover 3D application: https://rkinnett.github.io/rover3d/ #mars #Rover3D...

A 65-in-1 The 2024 Way

If necessity is the mother of invention, nostalgia must be its stepmother, or its aunt at the very least. The desire to recreate long-obsolete devices simply because they existed while we were grow…

A Classroom-Ready Potentiometer From Pencil And 3D Prints

If you need a potentiometer for a project, chances are pretty good that you’re not going to pick up a pencil and draw one. Then again, if you’re teaching someone how a variable resistor…

Kitchen Steganography With Turmeric

It is a classic rite of passage for nerdy kids to write secret messages using lemon juice. If you somehow missed that, you can’t see the writing until you heat the paper up with, say, an old-…

Those Tiny Bubbles When You Boil Eggs - Shuttersparks

The reason for those streams of tiny bubbles when you boil eggs.

How To Grow Rose Plant From Cuttings I Grow Roses From Stem Cutting I Roses Cutting Idea I #Amazed

#gardening #homegardening #epicgardening #amazedgardening In this video, we will guide you on how to grow #roses at home successfully. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced gardener, our step-by-step instructions will help you grow...

Hackaday Prize 2023: Tiny RC Aircraft Built Using Foam And ESP12

Once upon a time, a radio controlled plane was a hefty and complex thing. They required small nitro engines, support equipment, and relatively heavy RC electronics. Times have changed since then, a…

Machine Learning Helps Electron Microscopy

Machine learning is supposed to help us do everything these days, so why not electron microscopy? A team from Ireland has done just that and published their results using machine learning to enhanc…

Supercon 2022: Tap Your Rich Uncle To Fund Your Amateur Radio Dreams

Imagine you had a rich uncle who wanted to fund some of your projects. Like, seriously rich — thanks to shrewd investments, he’s sitting on a pile of cash and is now legally obligated t…