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Yellowstone National Park’s Prismatic Pool
The photo above shows the brightly colored Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The red and yellow colors of the pool in the foreground contrast sharply with the azure blue color in the mid-ground and with the greens and tans of the slope in the background.
Red and yellow colors are caused by pigmented bacteria and thermophiles (heat-loving algae) inhabiting the hot spring. Specific colors of the thermophiles correspond to a particular temperature range of the naturally heated springs – temperatures are 160 F (70 C) at the spring’s source.
Colors are also a result of the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids – red/orange is observed during summer but typically, dark green is favored during the colder months. The inset photo shows a close up of a thermophile colony.
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Listen to the eastern sea
Listen to koji
Wish they would play here.
It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
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Seahorse’s Armor Gives Engineers Insight Into Robotics Designs
The tail of a seahorse can be compressed to about half its size before permanent damage occurs, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found. The tail’s exceptional flexibility is due to its structure, made up of bony, armored plates, which slide past each other.
Researchers are hoping to use a similar structure to create a flexible robotic arm equipped with muscles made out of polymer, which could be used in medical devices, underwater exploration and unmanned bomb detection and detonation. UC San Diego engineers, led by materials science professors Joanna McKittrick and Marc Meyers, detailed their findings in the March 2013 issue of the journal Acta Biomaterialia.
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