science is pretty

so one things i have learned in my first year of grad school is how beautiful science is. yeah, mushy i know, but i don't mean the fact the we, as scientists, make the world a better place (because we do), rather i mean science is really beautiful! For example check out this picture of a mouse neural network:

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if i hadn't told you that this was a picture of a neural network you would have thought i was just posting pictures of abstract art. What about this one?

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so it looks just like any flower right? what if i told you that it is about one thousandth of a piece of your hair?

I mean we are all made of proteins, but not many people know what a protein looks like:

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so you are probably thinking, "so what Kene why does this matter?" the answer is that it doesn't i just think it is interesting and an unknown facet of science that i wanted to share!

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