I’m not a so low level of abstraction-biology
Crack spreading in brittle solids such as rocks or ceramics involves mechanisms that span a vast range of scales: a, macroscopic metre-scale events, for example rock fracture caused by an earthquake; b, mesoscopic micrometre-scale evolution of cracks; c, atomistic nanometrescale details of the geometry of the crack tip; and d, breaking of chemical bonds at the angstrom scale. Via.
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
— Marie Curie (via scienceisbeauty)
Mayonnaise droplet is no longer a mayonnaise.
(via http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/how-to-mix-oil-and-water/)





