What your face would look like without muscles. Via scienceporn.

If you think that Leslie’s reaction to meeting Michelle Obama is any different to what your reaction would be, you’re just lying to yourself.

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Some of the winners of the Nikon 2015 Photomicrography Competition. Click on images for descriptions.

On a scale of Matt Damon

to Matt Damon

how well do you handle being stuck alone on an inhospitable planet

Waiting to hear back on my paper like

Imagining a story in your head:

Writing down the story:

Humans have been floating around the Earth on the International Space Station for 15 years today

Bacteria art contest - WTF fun facts

Hopeless by Travis Anthony

Dr. Ian Crozier survived Ebola, only to have his normally blue left eye turn green because of inflammation. Though the rest of his body, including his tears, was Ebola-free, his eye was teeming with the virus.

It turns out Ebola can hide out in eyes, testicles, the uterus, the spine.

“It presents a huge challenge, because how do we get enough antivirals into these sites?” says Ilhem Messaoudi, a viral immunologist and professor of biomedical sciences at the University of California, Riverside, who is studying how the virus works in the human body. “How do we eradicate those reservoirs? And why do some people end up developing these reservoirs and other people don’t?”

Read the full story here.

Image credit: Emory Eye Center

Don’t argue with the science, guys. Some important & really great points in this one.

It’s bad guys.

Video of the explosions.

Full death and injury toll not yet known but at this time it stands at 17 dead and hundreds injured.

Green circle is 3KM. There are no survivors in the 1km range.