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This primeval worm may be the ancestor of all animals | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/bilaterian-worm-animal-ancestor.html

Scientists observe superconductivity in meteorites
https://phys.org/news/2020-03-scientists-superconductivity-meteorites.html

What exactly are the tests being used to detect coronavirus?
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/science-technology/what-exactly-are-the-tests-being-used-to-detect-coronavirus--69997

Gravitas: Wuhan Coronavirus, is one blood group more vulnerable?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n-rVRhRYSU

Aanandaa Farms: The joy of growing a food forest using #Permaculture Farming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZ-t30aCeQ

Convert your pool into a pond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIWUK5LprZU

#gardening

The world wasn't prepared for COVID-19: In future, AI will curb the next pandemic - The Economic Times
https://m.economictimes.com/magazines/panache/the-world-wasnt-prepared-for-covid-19-in-future-ai-will-curb-the-next-pandemic/articleshow/74776209.cms

Comet ATLAS may put on quite a show
https://phys.org/news/2020-03-comet-atlas.html

This is frightening!
#COVID19 #India
https://bing.com/covid

Where Did Viruses Come From?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X31g5TB-MRo

🌱 #EcoIndia: A Delhi-based company has taken up the mighty task of eliminating single-use plastics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQAjb0iJ5-4

#PlasticPollution #PlasticWaste

Check out their website: https://ecoware.in/

Coronavirus Outbreak: In a first, #Kerala doctors treat COVID-19 patient with anti-HIV medicine - The Financial Express
https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/health/coronavirus-outbreak-in-a-first-kerala-doctors-treat-covid-19-patient-with-anti-hiv-medicine/1903727/
The combination of the anti-HIV drugs was used on several patients in China’s #Wuhan, and has reportedly also been tested on patients in #Rajasthan and #Odisha.

"the hospital is administering the medicine to the UK patient with his consent, and they got the approval of the State Medical Board and the Indian Council of Medical Research ( #ICMR ). He further said that he couldn’t comment on the effectiveness of the drug as it was too early to tell"

Forensic linguists explore how emojis can be used as evidence in court
https://theconversation.com/forensic-linguists-explore-how-emojis-can-be-used-as-evidence-in-court-133462

In memory of Bruce McEwen: a gentle giant of neuroscience | Nature Neuroscience
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0613-y

A look at how biosafety scientists balance the need to learn about deadly pathogens and the danger of working with them. https://t.co/890Zs6dwDi

https://twitter.com/DiscoverMag/status/1242315393148039168?s=09

🔸 The central nervous system has to go from the caudal end of the spinal cord all the way to the front of the brain.

🔸 The neural plate is making the neural tube. And the central portion of the neuroectoderm folds up, and then it folds and closes and becomes a tube.

🔸 Neural tube is going to become central nervous system. Neural crest is going to become peripheral nervous system plus a lot of other stuff like melanocytes.

🔸 By the end of day 21 of gestation, we already have an invagination; and by the end of the fourth week, we're going to have a tube that stretches from one end to the other.

🔸 And the way this works is that the flat plate of neuroectoderm, invaginates — it folds in. It is called 'neural fold' or 'neural groove'.

🔸 And then that increases until you have almost a tube — people will call this an omega shape — and then that does in fact become a tube.

🔸 After the tube forms, other tissues have to come in and cover the nervous system — that's important. We don't want our nervous system to be exposed. This whole process takes a week.

🔸 And around the region where the neck of the adult will be, the neural tube first closes up.

🔸 There's one last opening where they meet. And that's called a neuropore.

🖼️ Images from: Screengrab at https://www.coursera.org/learn/neurobiology/lecture/BAy3h/neural-tube-formation and https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Formation-and-patterning-of-the-mouse-neural-tube-A-The-pseudostratified-columnar_fig3_334407321

"You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other." https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/202606

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Red ochre—Fe2O3—is a simple compound of iron and oxygen that absorbs yellow, green and blue light and appears red. It’s what makes red paint red. It’s really cheap because it’s really plentiful. And it’s really plentiful because of nuclear fusion in dying stars.

https://twitter.com/SmithsonianMag/status/1242058735167684610?s=09