🫀Why is our heart to the left and the liver to the right?

Researchers from UG/TUe built a world-first artificial embryonic node that mimics the flow pattern that decides where organs grow during embryonic development.🤰

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/health-and-life/why-is-our-heart-to-the-left-and-the-liver-to-the-right

Published in Science Advances

🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #biology #physics #biophysics #biochemistry #chemistry #simulation #mechanics #engineering #research #science #scientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen @TUEindhoven

Battery Tester Outperforms Cheaper Options

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/battery-tester-outperforms-cheaper-options/

I’ll be talking about the very serious helium shortage that is looming

(actually, it’s already upon us)

and risks crippling semiconductor chip production and diagnostic instruments like MRI scanners,
not to mention low temperature science..

It’s maddening because we’ve known that helium is very limited but it’s cheap
so no one recovers it.

It’ll be on BBC World Service Newshour around 13:45 BST.
#elements #chemistry #economics #profligacy

https://mastodon.social/@sellathechemist/116312371974222785

Periodic Table of the Elements

https://lemmy.world/post/45049164

🐟✨ Organisms ranging from deep-sea #predators to #forest #insects produce light through internal chemical reactions. This trait evolved independently across many lineages to assist with hunting and communication in dark environments.

👉 https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2026/03/31/why-do-animals-glow-the-science-of-bioluminescence/

#bioluminescence #biology #nature #science #ocean #deepsea #evolution #chemistry

Quantum Computing Built An Impossible Molecule — With Big Implications

https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2026/03/30/quantum-computing-built-an-impossible-molecule---with-big-implications/

#science #chemistry #quantumcomputing