The world’s smallest pacemaker is smaller than a grain of rice, can dissolve in the body, and is our #PictureOfTheWeek.
Image credit: John A. Rogers/Northwestern University Our #PictureOfTheWeek is the spider-tailed horned viper. Its tail looks a lot like a spider, complete with a round "body" and several "legs," which it flicks to lure unsuspecting birds into becoming lunch.
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1. Omid Mozaffari
2. Sara Ruane
3. Sara Ruane & Stephanie Smith Our #PictureOfTheWeek shows what’s happening inside the LUX-ZEPLIN detector, which is on the hunt for dark matter particles.
Image credits:
1. Greg Stewart, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
2. Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Laboratory Our #PictureOfTheWeek shows the orbits of the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites operated by the United States.
Credit: Data visualizer, Kel Elkins (Science and Technology Corporation) Our #PictureOfTheWeek is an illustration of a new astrophysical phenomenon, a black hole star.
Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT Our #PictureOfTheWeek, a Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly, inspired biologist Matt Forister to create the Journal of Lost Species. Our #PictureOfTheWeek features astronaut Leland Melvin surrounded by floating food and drink packets in space. As NASA prepares for long-term space missions to the moon and Mars, how important is the food they send up? Our #PictureOfTheWeek features Cold War codebreaking specialists. This group of highly skilled Black women were recruited as cryptologists to decipher intercepted Soviet messages. Their role in Cold War intelligence operations has been largely overlooked, until now.
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