This cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer has an unusual helical... axis distortion, which leads to this 🌈 of colours on stretching Read the article:show more

This has to be the best looking liquid glass... on Mac.show more

Just an ABSURD sequence of bounces leads to Matthew... Schaefers 19th goal of the season 🔥🚨 The dude has more goals this season than years on earth! 😂show more

This 💧 of water in oil becomes charged in... an applied electric field. The electrode above can then transport it over to the 🔴 dye particles to the left. Read the article:show more

This is one of the most futuristic things I've... seen at #UnitedXR Europe: an XPANCEO smart contact lens powered by a wireless power supply installed on the head. Read about this and the contact lens prototypes I've tried in this article: #AugmentedReality #wearables #technologyshow more

🚨 An unusual animal was spotted in the Maasai... Mara National Reserve. Which animal is this? Aki vaane!show more

#Daredevil star Charlie Cox says stretching has become an... “imperative” part of playing the role: “It’s kind of vital for me to keep doing this job.”show more

🔴 Donald Trump has shared an AI-generated video of... himself as a fighter pilot wearing a crown and bombing protestors with a brown liquid. This came a day after insisting on Fox News that he is “not a king”. Read the full story ⬇️show more

Say 👋 to the smallest of all kingfisher species...... the Oriental dwarf #kingfisher. This bird may be small, but its stunning colours are larger than life! 🌈show more

this still has to be the funniest line read... in the history of gundamshow more

That Blackhawk Down campaign has a localized spacetime anomaly... that has caused a causality violation, allowing an object from 1999 to manifest in 1993. This means temporal distortion exists in 1993 Mogadishu within the events of Op: Irene. What does god mean by this?show more

Liquid Glass bends car lights into rainbow colours.. this... is bonkers Software Design ❌ Software Physics ✅show more

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee: There has been... an unusual level of partnership between the U.S. and Israel, not an unusual level of partnership between the U.S. and Türkiye. Source: Israeli Channel 12show more

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump responds to New York Times... article about Elon’s alleged drug use: "I don't want to comment on this news, I don't know what his status is and I read an article in The New York Times and I thought it was, frankly it sounded very unfair to me."show more

Most chiral molecules arise from carbons being bonded to... 4 different atoms, which are called sterocenters. The makes the molecule have a different mirror image that cannot arise from simple rotation. But, you can have chiral molecules not from stereocenters. You can have chirality that doesn't come from a single point in the molecule. It comes from some global property. The classic example is helicene, which doesn't have any stereocenters, but has chirality because of hits helical structure. This means you cannot capture this molecule with a graph, and thus SMILES or a string representation cannot capture this. Of course natural language comes to the rescue (just say in words if it's left-handed or right-handed helix), but it's an interesting failure mode for viewing molecules as just a graph. Another example of a molecule with helical chirality is DNA. DNA is actually chiral in two ways, which is kind of confusing. It has both helical structure and stereocenters. You won't find the stereocenters ever flipped, but left-handed helical DNA can exist (called Z-DNA). Interestingly, making the flipped stereocenter of DNA could be part of an entire mirror organism (mirror RNA, DNA, AAs, sugars) that would then be potentially invisible to our immune systems. This has been recently proposed as a "mechanism" for how a runaway AI system could cause harm to Earth. I find it to be a pretty tedious and difficult way to cause harm, but it is intellectually cool. Anyway - this came up in a PhD defense and I have a lot of arcane knowledge about this I wanted to dump.show more

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This is the gorgeously transparent leptocephalus larva of an... eel. These are clear enough to read a book through and their bodies are flattened, which helps make them clear.show more