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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bill Nye The Science Guy - Energy⚡⚡⚡ I've completely revised my remastering techniques for all my episodes from now on, so I hope I'm doing these shows even more justice now. Thanks for all the feedback folks, it only helps me get better.

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Bill Nye Energy: Full Episode, Questions and Lesson

The science of energy: how stored (potential) energy turns into motion (kinetic) energy, why energy is never destroyed, and how the world converts wind, water, coal and sunlight into electricity.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Noooo It's the Sun, the Space Station AND a plane! ☀️🛰️✈️ What began as an ordinary afternoon chasing sunspots over Czechia turned into a one in 30 million capture, all lined up in a single split-second frame. Awesome! 📷 Petr Horálek / NASA APOD

Telephoto photo of the Sun as a large golden-yellow disk on a black sky, cropped at the right and bottom edges. A commercial airplane crosses the upper left of the disk as a huge dark silhouette, angled diagonally with wings and tail clearly outlined but slightly soft, as the lens was focused at infinity. A faint blurred plume trails behind it. Just below its tail, a tiny dark H-shaped speck with solar panels is the International Space Station. Small dark sunspots dot the disk: a line of spots across the middle and a larger cluster lower down. Sunspots are cooler regions where concentrated magnetic fields suppress the convection carrying heat to the surface. The ISS orbits about 400 km up and crossed the Sun in about a second; the plane flew roughly 10 km up, so it looks far larger even though the station's 109-metre span is wider than an airliner's wings. Labels read: Sun and the Sunspots, Plane, International Space Station.

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ? Answer this quick 5-min survey: 👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚 Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏 🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴

Flyer for the BIODIFUL Soundscapes survey. Text reads: 'Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica? Please answer our online questionnaire: Voices of the Tropical Forest.' Photo of a lush tropical forest interior, overlaid with a translucent ear icon surrounded by sound waves. Text continues: 'This anonymous survey will take only 10 min. https://www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en.' Logos at the bottom: BIODIFUL, ETH Zürich, CNRS, and Station d'Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I bought 2 Khoi Guppies for my Walstad Method natural tank today and arrived home with 15... Happy Days! 🐟🐡🐠🦐

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Colony of Leopard Lacewing caterpillars (Cethosia cyane) feeding on a passionflower vine. Watch how they freeze the moment I tap the stem.. This is so predators focus on the warning colours instead of movement. Classic aposematism, backed up by toxins the caterpillars pull from the host plant.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

At first glance this image looks like a soft blend of light, until you realise that every single dot no matter how far you zoom in is an entire galaxy; over 45,000 in total.. Mind Blown! 🤯 Credit: JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES)

A mind blowing deep space view captured by the James Webb Space Telescope across the GOODS-South field. At first glance the scene appears as a gentle dusting of light against the black void, but looking closer reveals that almost every single point of light is an entire galaxy containing billions of stars. Over 45,000 individual galaxies populate the frame. In the foreground and midground, larger spiral galaxies display glowing golden and white cores with delicate, swirling arms, while luminous elliptical galaxies appear as smooth, bright spheres of starlight. Scattered throughout the vast expanse and stretching into the deepest background are thousands of faint, ancient galaxies appearing as tiny reddish-orange and crimson dots, streaks, and subtle smudges. The dense clustering and layered cosmic perspective create an immense sense of three-dimensional depth, revealing the sheer scale of the early cosmos.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There's a sundial on Mars and Bill Nye helped design it. His father spent nearly four years in a Japanese prison camp with no watches, so he learned to read time off shadows. New biography: the sundial, the engineering career and the Disney lawsuit he unfortunately lost. 🪐🕰️

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Bill Nye: Please Consider the Following

Explore Bill Nye's full biography. See his journey from Boeing engineer to the iconic 'Science Guy' and discover his most important inventions.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’m not sure anyone could get away with so many song parodies on network TV today 📺 But Bill Nye's Soundtracks of Science absolutely nailed it 🎯.. In December 1995, Bill turned his studio into the NTV Music Awards! Can you name all the original songs and artists? 🎶

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Bill Nye The Science Guy | NTV Music Videos | Full Episode

A special episode: eleven of Bill Nye's parody science songs, each set to the tune of a familiar chart hit, counted down from the bloodstream all the way to the water cycle at number one.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Amazing view of 'Totality' from San Millán de los Caballeros in northern Spain. The corona is golden rather than white because the Sun sat just around 10° above the horizon, so therefore, much more atmosphere to scatter the light..

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Curiousity climbed the Mountain! This HiRISE pan and zoom finds the 'family car sized' Curiosity Rover climbing Mount Mercou in Gale Crater on Mars. From 269 km up, HiRISE resolves objects down to about a meter, enough to catch a whole rover as one bright dot. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A NASA simulation of gas orbiting a black hole. The disk is completely flat - but the black hole's gravity bends light so hard you can see the underside of the far side wrapping above and below the shadow. Credit: NASA Goddard/Jeremy Schnittman #nasa

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Do you remember where you were on 11 August 1999 for the last total solar eclipse over Europe? 🌘 I do and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my entite life.. Even the scientist in me couldn't help but feel a little druidy as day turned to night and the troposphere froze. Yay Totality!

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Total Solar Eclipse 2026: Live Countdown & Best Views

Total solar eclipse on 12 August 2026, the first over mainland Europe since 1999. Live countdown, path of totality, local times and viewing tips.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

OK so I was repotting some plants and look what I found.. So I know what my wife wants me to do with them but I know what I'm going to do with them.. All I see here is a great opportunity for science class ;)

Macro close-up of a scarab beetle grub, likely Oryctes rhinoceros (the coconut rhinoceros beetle), photographed in Vietnam. It shows the classic C-shaped "white grub" body plan common across the rhinoceros beetle subfamily Dynastinae. The cream-colored, semi-translucent skin reveals a row of brown spiracles along each side, three pairs of short legs clustered near the reddish-brown head capsule, and visible mandibles. A yellow tape measure alongside it reads roughly 8 to 9 centimeters, suggesting a large, likely third-instar larva nearing pupation. A second, soil-crusted grub sits just out of frame in the lower left.

A large scarab beetle grub, a suspected coconut rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) larva, uncovered while repotting plants in a home garden in Vietnam. The pale, C-shaped grub rests at the edge of a white ceramic dish filled with fresh potting mix, its cream-colored body and small legs visible against the dark, chunky soil. A black plant pot sits blurred in the background on a wooden garden table, part of the coconut palm setup the grub was found growing near, a detail that lines up with this species' habit of breeding in decaying organic matter close to palm trees.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The Voyager probes have always had a special place in my heart 🛰️✨ They've been falling away from the Sun for almost as many years as I've been travelling around it.. 😉 And now Voyager 1 is about to reach one light day from Earth🌍 .. A place no machine has ever been, so I started the countdown⏱️👇👇

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Voyager 1 Live Countdown: One Light Day From Earth

Watch Voyager 1 reach one light day from Earth on 18 November 2026. A live countdown, real-time distance and signal delay, and the full mission story.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Personally, I think this should be one of the most watched Bill Nye The Science Guy episodes - Pseudoscience 👣🛸👻 It really hones in on the importance of the scientific method & critical thinking! 🧠 As I try to do with each video now, I've added an interactive lesson and a complementary worksheet. 🔬

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Bill Nye The Science Guy | Pseudoscience | Full Episode

Bill Nye the Science Guy investigates pseudoscience! Learn how to separate fact from fiction, spot fake claims, and understand why evidence matters.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

📺 Classic Bill Nye + Interactive Science Lessons! 🥼 Currently I'm busy rolling out interactive lessons for each video to help students review what they learned while watching.. It's a work in progress, so any feedback is much appreciated! Check out the Spinning Things episode and lesson here: 👇

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Bill Nye The Science Guy | Spinning Things | Full Episode

🌀Bill Nye explores spinning things! Learn how rotation, momentum, and torque keep objects moving, from bicycles to planets and beyond.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Continuing the celebration for Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday! 🎂 I am now rolling out interactive lessons with every video. In this one, you can also pilot your own submersible. 🕹️ Any feedback is much appreciated so I can keep improving these for our students. Enjoy the video! 🍿

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Sir David Attentenborough | Monterey Bay Lights in the Abyss

Join David Attenborough in the Monterey Bay twilight zone to discover deep sea bioluminescence, the burglar alarm theory, and bizarre marine adaptations.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Happy 100th birthday to the greatest natural historian of our time 🎂 To mark this day I'm streaming his Galapagos series, all three episodes back to back, completely uninterrupted.. Just Galapagos, the way it was made to be watched.. 🐢🦎 Thank you Sir David, for introducing us to Our Planet! 🌍

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Live Science Streams: Volcanoes, Space, Safari and Wildlife

Watch 18 live science streams including an erupting Hawaiian volcano, the ISS orbiting Earth, SpaceX Starbase, African safari waterholes, coral reefs and a bald eagle nest. Free, 24/7.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Imagine having to work this hard as a parent..?

A live webcam capture of a bald eagle standing over its chicks in a large, snow-covered stick nest during a harsh winter storm. This feed comes from the famous Big Bear Valley eagle nest high in a Jeffrey Pine tree in California, where these raptors endure freezing temperatures and heavy snow to protect their young.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Saw Blue Jays trending... Thought I was going to see some nice pictures of birds, doh! Watcth out for St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, Miami Marlins, Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago Cubs and Tampa Bay Rays as well 😀

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Experience reentry as it would have been viewed by the Artemis II crew! 🌍🔥 Plunging into the atmosphere at Mach 32, the Orion capsule generates a 2,760°C (5,000°F) plasma shield before a pinpoint ocean splashdown. #NASA #SpaceExploration #Splashdown

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

🔴 LIVE REPLAY! The Artemis II capsule has completed a textbook splashdown! 🌊🚀 Witness the exact moment humans safely returned from the Moon for the first time in 50 plus years. 🌍✨ #Artemis2 #NASA #SpaceExploration

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

We have splashdown! 🌊 Welcome home to the incredible Artemis II crew: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen. An absolutely brilliant day for space exploration and a huge leap forward, lets hope its just the begeiing of even bigger things! 🚀🌕

The Orion spacecraft capsule descending, suspended by three large, fully deployed parachutes with a red and white patterned design. The capsule and parachutes are set against a solid, deep navy blue background.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Yay, metamorphosis complete, first frog to emerge from the tadpole experiment. Time to find this fella a better n bigger home now ;)

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This has to be one of the most amazing photos ever taken by humanity.. 📸 A total solar eclipse captured from the Moon during Artemis II! Notice the faint 'Earthshine' lighting up the left edge and looking closely at the bottom right... Those tiny bright dots are Saturn and Mars! 👨‍🚀

A breathtaking deep-space photograph of a total solar eclipse captured during the Artemis II mission. A massive, pitch-black lunar disk dominates the centre of the frame, completely obscuring the Sun. Surrounding the Moon is a brilliant, glowing white halo composed of the solar corona and zodiacal light, stretching outwards and fading into the black vacuum of space. On the left edge of the lunar disk, a faint sliver of the cratered surface is visible, subtly illuminated by 'Earthshine' (sunlight reflecting off Earth). The background is a vast, dark starfield. In the bottom right quadrant, two distinct bright dots stand out against the distant stars; the one closest to the lunar edge is the planet Saturn, and the point further to the right is Mars.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Clean, no-distractions live stream of the Artemis II flyby! 🚀 🌑 Blackout: 18:44 EDT | 22:44 UTC | 05:44 ICT 🚀 Closest: 19:02 EDT | 23:02 UTC | 06:02 ICT 📏 Record: 19:07 EDT | 23:07 UTC | 06:07 ICT 🌎 Earthrise: 19:25 EDT | 23:25 UTC | 06:25 ICT ☀️ Eclipse: 20:35 EDT | 00:35 UTC | 07:35 ICT Say hi! 👋

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LIVE: Artemis II Lunar Flyby (Clean Feed / No Distractions)

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Beyond the EPIC photo ops, there's some pretty cool SCIENCE on board Artemis II.. The crew is battling deep space hazards with cutting-edge tech.. From AVATAR chips mimicking human tissue 💓 to ARCHeR biometric trackers ⌚, NASA is starting to unlock the secrets of the human body in deep spacce..🌔

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Artemis II Science Experiments: The Tiny Living Payload

For the first time in 53 years, humans are heading to the Moon. Discover the groundbreaking Artemis II science experiments changing the future of medicine.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Will all future road trips one day have views like this? This incredible shot from Artemis II feels like the ultimate version of staring out the back window on a family holiday, only the destination is the Moon. Looking back at home as Orion pushes into deep space. Image credit: #NASA

A high resolution photograph captured from inside the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission, providing a unique perspective of Earth through one of the cabin windows. The composition creates a powerful sense of being a passenger on a deep space journey, reminiscent of looking out the window during a long road trip. The foreground is dominated by the dark, technical interior of the spacecraft, including the thick metallic frame of the window, visible bolts, thermal insulation blankets, and various electrical cables and connectors running along the hull. Through the rectangular pane of the window, the Earth is visible as a brilliant blue and white marble suspended in the infinite blackness of the vacuum. The planet appears as a partial sphere, with sunlight illuminating the swirling white cloud patterns and the deep sapphire of the oceans. The vastness of space surrounding the planet highlights the isolation and distance of the crew as they continue their historic manoeuvre towards the Moon. The lighting within the cabin is dim, allowing the natural light from Earth to serve as the primary focal point of the scene. This high resolution file has been kept in its original state, unedited except for slight noise removal by seriouslyscientific.com to ensure the clearest possible view of our home planet from deep space.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Artemis II Captures the Terminator Line (Hi-Res) A view of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman from one of the Orion spacecraft's four windows after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026. Image Credit: #NASA

A high resolution photograph of Earth captured from the Orion spacecraft during the NASA Artemis II mission. The image shows a stunning crescent Earth set against the absolute blackness of deep space, specifically highlighting the terminator line – the moving boundary that separates the daylight side of the planet from the darkness of night.

The Earth occupies the left and bottom portions of the frame, showcasing a vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean decorated with intricate, swirling white cloud formations and weather systems. The terminator line is visible as a soft, curved gradient rather than a sharp edge, a phenomenon caused by the Earth's atmosphere scattering sunlight and creating a twilight zone between day and night. The intense blue of the oceans transitions into a deep shadow as the line progresses across the planetary disc.

This specific view was captured by Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman on 3 April 2026, using one of Orion's four cabin windows. The photograph was taken shortly after the spacecraft completed its translunar injection (TLI) burn, the critical manoeuvre that propelled the crew out of Earth's orbit and on a trajectory towards the Moon. This version of the image is unedited except for slight noise reduction by seriouslyscientific.com to enhance the clarity of the high resolution file while maintaining the integrity of the original NASA capture.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

History in the making. 🚀 🌕 For anyone who missed the livestream: here are the first 10 minutes of the NASA Artemis II mission. Humanity is officially heading back to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years! #NASA #ArtemisII #Space #MoonMission

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NASA Artemis II Moon Mission - First 10 Minutes - Countdown & Launch

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🚀 Artemis II: Returning to the Moon 🌕 NASA is sending humans beyond Earth orbit for the first time since 1972. Join Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen for a 10-day live-streamed journey into deep space. The SLS is fuelled and ready. #ArtemisII #NASA Watch it live:

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NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Something for the weekend? 🍿 Dive into the crystal clear waters of the Galapagos with Sir David Attenborough... 🌋 Discover the fiery birth of nature's greatest experiment! See how deep ocean currents fuel abundant marine life and how Antarctic penguins shrank to beat the equatorial heat.. 🐢

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David Attenborough – Full Documentary – 4K | Galapagos – Origin

David Attenborough's Galapagos documentary uncovers evolution in action. From marine iguanas to giant tortoises - discover nature's incredible adaptations.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.” – Pythagoras 🏛️📐 There is also a geometry in the flying of the ISS. 🛰️ I plotted the projected path of the International Space Station for the next 4 days.. Look up when you can 🔭 #ISS #NASA #Space

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The ISS Projected Path for the Next 4 Days + NASA Mission Control Radio | Seriously Scientific

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Floating 400km above the Caribbean on the ISS. 🛰️ Listen to the crackle of NASA mission control as the Great Bahama Bank reveals its vibrant turquoise waters. The sheer unadulterated beauty of our very own spaceship is mesmerising. 🌊⛅ #Space #ISS

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Surgeons have always been REAL Superheroes, but now they can be Spider-Man as well. 🕷️✨ Oxford researchers are using Golden Orb Spider Silk to bridge massive nerve gaps - upto 20cm in some proven cases and possibly upto 80cm 🙏 It is restoring movement once thought lost forever. Full article here:

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Spider Silk Nerve Repair: How Surgeons Become Peter Parker - Seriously Scientific

Discover how Oxford scientists are using golden orb-weaver silk in 2026 clinical trials to bridge massive nerve gaps and restore human movement and feeling.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Microscopic Marvels - Aquatic Annelids 🧬 Left: Chaetogaster, a predator with a large pharynx to engulf prey. Right: Stylaria, showing its sensory proboscis & orange chloragogen tissue. 🎬 Rubén Duro & Team: scienceintoimages.com ✨ HD by seriouslyscientific.com #microbiology #biology #science

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Happy International Womans Day! A huge thank you to all the women out there as we litterally wouldn’t be here without you. :) So apart from my Mum and Wife, here's another 10 amazing women I feel have changed the world for the better! 🧬✨ Comment to suggest anyone else who deserves a mention! 👇🚀

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International Women’s Day: 10 Scientists Who Changed the World

Celebrate 10 female scientists who changed the world. From mapping DNA to calculating the Moon landing, discover the women who built our reality.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Remembering Janaki Ammal on International Women's Day! In the 1930s, India’s sugarcane was weak and low-yield. Janaki used cytogenetics to "engineer" the crop, cross-breeding it with wild grasses to create the sweet, robust hybrids that feed millions today. 🌿🔬 #WomenInScience

A restored and colorized historical portrait of the pioneering Indian botanist Janaki Ammal. She stands outdoors in a garden setting, looking directly at the camera with a calm and determined expression. She is wearing a traditional sari in shades of white and green. The natural lighting of the outdoor setting highlights her features and the textures of her clothing. The image captures Ammal as a trailblazer, the first Indian woman to earn a PhD in Botany at the height of her influence in the field of cytogenetics. Digital restoration and colorization by Seriously Scientific.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Remembering Katherine Johnson on International Women's Day! A literal human computer, her hand-calculated trajectories were vital to the first human spaceflights and the Apollo moon landings. She didn't just calculate orbits; she mapped the path for humanity to reach the stars!🚀⭐ #WomenInScience

African American mathematician Katherine Johnson seated at her desk at NASA’s Langley Research Center in the mid-1960s. She is wearing glasses and a white dress, with her hands resting on a desk covered in mathematical papers and charts. Behind her is a large celestial globe used for tracking orbits and a Friden mechanical calculator. She is looking intently at a document. The scene captures the precise, manual calculations that served as the final verification for NASA’s early electronic computers, which she performed at a time when women of color were barred from using many standard facilities. Digital restoration and colorization by Seriously Scientific.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Remembering Barbara McClintock on International Women's Day! She discovered that genes aren't static, they can actually "jump" around on a chromosome. Her discovery of transposons ("jumping genes") fundamentally changed how we understand evolution and the complexity of DNA! 🧬🌽 #WomenInScience

A detailed digital composite image based on the 1947 historical photograph of geneticist Barbara McClintock. McClintock, with her characteristic short hair and round glasses, is seated at a microscope, using tweezers in a Petri dish. While based on the original photo distributed for her AAUW award, this image presents a significantly expanded and fictionalized laboratory environment. The simple wooden workbench is now densely populated with a vast, colorized collection of complex glassware, numerous amber-colored reagent bottles, intricate distillation columns, and botanical specimens relevant to maize cytogenetics, creating a rich, illustrative narrative of her "jumping gene" research context that was not present in the original photo. The expanded background shows complex vintage laboratory cabinetry. This image explicitly states it is a composite: a digital recreation where Seriously Scientific has taken the historical figure and placed them into an augmented, complex fictionalized environment. Based on original source from Smithsonian Institution Archives. Digital composite by Seriously Scientific.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Remembering Dorothy Hodgkin on International Women's Day! While Fleming found the mold, Hodgkin solved the 3D atomic puzzle of Penicillin. Using X-ray crystallography, she mapped the molecule's structure, allowing it to be mass-produced and saving millions of lives! 🔬🗺️ #WomenInScience

British chemist Dorothy Hodgkin in her laboratory in 1964. She is sitting at a wooden desk, wearing a blue cardigan and green skirt, resting her chin on her hand as she looks thoughtfully toward the camera. On the desk beside her sits a black and gold microscope and a glass display case containing a large, complex crystal structure model. To her left, bookshelves are packed with scientific texts, including a prominent red spine titled "Penicillin Crystal Structures." This image captures the Nobel Prize winner in the environment where she produced the world’s first 3D atomic maps of essential medicines like penicillin and insulin. The scene highlights her intense intellectual focus and the physical tools of her pioneering work in X-ray crystallography. Digital restoration and colorization by Seriously Scientific.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Remembering Alice Ball on International Women's Day! At just 24, this brilliant chemist developed the first effective treatment for leprosy. Her 'Ball Method' made Chaulmoogra oil injectable, saving thousands of people from lifelong isolation and exile. 🧪💉 #WomenInScience

African American chemist Alice Ball in her laboratory around 1915. She is wearing a white lab coat and a patterned blue scarf, holding a glass test tube and using a pipette to precisely transfer a liquid from a small vial. This scene represents her development of the "Ball Method," where she transformed thick Chaulmoogra tree oil into a soluble, injectable treatment for leprosy. The dark wooden laboratory bench is filled with period-accurate glassware, glass stir rods, and amber-colored bottles containing the raw oil. In the background, a metal centrifuge and laboratory cabinetry are visible. The image captures the specific moment Alice created the medical breakthrough that saved thousands from forced exile. Digital restoration and colorization by Seriously Scientific.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Remembering Ada Lovelace on International Women's Day! A century before computers, she saw that machines could do more than just math. By writing the first algorithm for the Analytical Engine, she became the world’s first programmer and predicted the digital age we live in today!💻 #WomenInScience

A striking digital composite celebrating Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer. On the left is a vibrant, colorized restoration of her iconic 1838 portrait, showing her in a deep purple velvet gown with white lace accents and an elegant headdress. She gazes with sharp, visionary intelligence toward the right of the frame. Occupying the right side of the image is the intricate mechanical hardware of the Analytical Engine trial model - a complex assembly of vertical brass rods, interlocking gears, and polished metal dials. Floating subtly over the mechanical parts is a translucent overlay of her handwritten 1843 Bernoulli algorithm (Note G), showing the logical mathematical table that served as the world's first software. The composite beautifully illustrates the transition from 19th-century mechanical engineering to the birth of modern computing, representing Ada’s unique philosophy of "Poetical Science." The lighting unifies the historical portrait and the brass machinery into a single, cohesive moment of discovery. Credit: Seriously Scientific.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Remembering Mary Anning on International Women's Day! In the 1800s, the word "dinosaur" didn't even exist. With just a hammer and chisel, Mary unearthed "sea monsters" from shale cliffs, providing the raw evidence that proved extinction and founded the science of paleontology! 🦕⛏️ #WomenInScience

A striking digital composite that bridges two centuries of scientific history. On the left, a colorized version of the famous 1842 oil painting shows Mary Anning looking resolute in her practical cloak and bonnet, holding her geological hammer. On the right, the image transitions into a modern, high-definition photograph of a complete Ichthyosaurus fossil from a museum exhibition. The fossilized skeleton is embedded in dark, textured shale, showing the creature's long snout, massive ribcage, and distinctive paddles. The composite creates a "then and now" effect, placing the 19th-century pioneer right next to the raw evidence that proved the world was once ruled by extinct reptiles. The lighting on the colorized painting is matched to the museum spotlights on the fossil, making it look as though Anning is standing inside the display itself. This unique artwork highlights her role as the woman who bridged the gap between myth and the modern science of paleontology. Digital composite by Seriously Scientific.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Remembering Chien Shiung Wu on International Women's Day! Physicists thought the universe was perfectly symmetrical. By freezing radioactive atoms near absolute zero, Wu proved them wrong! She found nature is actually "left-handed," fundamentally shattering the Law of Parity! 🧲⚛️ #WomenInScience

A highly detailed, digitally colorized archival photograph of the pioneering experimental physicist Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu. She is positioned in the center of a complex mid-20th-century physics laboratory. Dr. Wu is smiling warmly and looking directly into the camera with an expression of calm, approachable brilliance. She has neatly styled dark hair and is wearing a crisp white laboratory coat over a dark, high-collared shirt. The digital colorization process brings realistic, warm skin tones and vibrant depth to the historic scene. Surrounding her is a spectacularly intricate maze of scientific equipment used for her groundbreaking parity violation experiments. The apparatus includes gleaming silver metal cylinders, delicate glass vacuum tubes, thick electrical wiring, large magnetic coils, and heavy steel framing. The lifelike color highlights the contrast between her confident posture and the massive technical complexity of the supercooled machinery she mastered to rewrite the laws of physics. At the bottom, a credit line reads: Original photograph by the Smithsonian Institution Archives, digital colorization by Seriously Scientific.

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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Remembering Marie Curie on International Women's Day! Marie spent years working in a dank, leaky shed boiling down tons of toxic pitchblende to extract a 0.1 grams of pure radium. She physically proved that atoms break apart, laying the exact foundation for cancer treatments! ☢️🔬 #WomenInScience

A highly detailed, digitally colorized close-up portrait of the pioneering physicist and chemist Marie Curie. She is looking directly into the camera lens with an incredibly intense, intelligent, and focused expression. The fingers of her left hand are gently resting against her cheek and neck. She has curly, textured brown hair pulled back loosely. She is wearing a dark blue, utilitarian dress with fine vertical pleats on the shoulder. The warm, realistic skin tones and soft lighting of the colorization process give this historic archival photo a highly modern, lifelike feel. Original archival photograph by Henri Manuel. Digital colorization by Seriously Scientific.

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