Discovery Lens🔍

#Amaliyot #Antimikrob_oqsillar #Biotexnologiya #ITM 🤩 O'quvchilar uchun amaliyot imkoniyati Ilg’or Texnologiyalar Markazi biotexnologiya laboratoriyasi biologiya va biotexnologiyaga qiziqqan, ilmiy izlanishga chanqoq, fidokor va maqsad sari intiluvchan maktab va litsey o’quvchilarni 3 oylik amali…

This pebble, which was found by a member of our team in eastern Switzerland during a university excursion, is made of a sedimentary rock formed from the silicate shells of tiny organisms known as radiolarians. It formed at the bottom of the ocean, several kilometres beneath the surface. If the sea f…

Did you know… Tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer to the present day than to Stegosaurus. T. Rex lived at the end of the Cretaceous around 67 million years ago and died out in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, whilst Stegosaurus lived around 150 million years ago in the Jurassic. Sourc…

Climate Change Part V: Tipping Points According to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tipping points are “critical thresholds in a system that, when exceeded, can lead to a significant change in the state of the system, often with an understanding that the change is irreversible.” It …

📢 Diqqat! Fanlar Akademiyasi uchun eng yaxshi shior tanlovi! O‘zbekiston Fanlar akademiyasi maktab o‘quvchilari va talabalar o‘rtasida ijodiy tanlov e’lon qiladi! Sizning vazifangiz – jamiyat taraqqiyotida fan ahamiyatini ta’kidlaydigan va yoshlarni ilmiy faoliyatga ilhomlantiradigan shior yaratish.…

Climate Change Part IV: More Extreme Weather ⛈ Besides increasing global average temperatures and leading to shifts in the distribution of precipitation, climate change is leading to more extreme weather events. The risks from extreme heat on land and sea, wildfires, high-tide flooding, floods, d…

#Mentors_needed #Mentorlar_qidirilmoqda Assalomu alaykum, hurmatli kuzatuvchilar! 🧬 Yoz faslida 10-11-sinf bitiruvchi o‘quvchilarining biologiya va ilm-fanga qiziqishini oshirish maqsadida yangi loyiha boshlashni rejalashtirdik. Ushbu tashabbusni amalga oshirish uchun biologiya va unga aloqador …

Climate Change Part III: Movement of Species Anthropogenic climate change is changing habitats and environments at an unprecedented rate. Among other possible changes, this can lead to habitats moving north, forcing species to move as well. However, some species have also managed to use climate cha…

Cryptobiosis and Hypobiosis: Survival Mechanisms in Extreme Conditions 🌍Life on Earth has developed remarkable strategies to survive harsh environments. Two such survival mechanisms are cryptobiosis and hypobiosis, both of which allow organisms to endure unfavorable conditions by temporarily suspen…

Climate Change Part II: Shifting Baseline Syndrome When the environment around us changes, so does our expectation of what is ‘normal’. This is known as shifting baseline syndrome, which leads to humans becoming accustomed to whatever environmental conditions they are experiencing. 2024 was the ho…

How H.M. Aided in Categorizing Memory Types 🧠The case of Henry Molaison (H.M.) played a crucial role in our understanding of memory systems. After undergoing a bilateral medial temporal lobectomy to treat his epilepsy, which involved the removal of the hippocampus, amygdala, and surrounding cortice…

Can retinitis pigmentosa be treated? 👁What is retinitis pigmentosa?👁 It is a condition which damages the cells of the retina–the part of the eye, where the image forms. It is caused by mutations in many genes (somewhere between 80 and 100), so the symptoms are various, such as poor night vision (n…

Climate Change Part I: Climate vs Weather #science #climate_change #misconceptions 🌡 This is the first part of a series of posts on anthropogenic (i.e. man-made) climate change that will be posted over the coming weeks both here on this channel and on the What’s App channel The Sponge of Know…

🧬 While you might be familiar with epigenetic changes that occur in eukaryotes have you ever wondered if such regulatory mechanism exist in bacteria? Well, they do, although they primarily involve DNA methylation and histone-like proteins, rather than chromatin modifications like in eukaryotes. So…

Did You Know Dinosaurs Still Exist? 🦖➡️🐦 You've Probably Eaten One! 🍗 Scientists once put birds in a separate class—entirely different from reptiles. But with the development of genetic studies, a surprising fact became clear: birds are reptiles! More specifically, they are the only living relative…

Treatment with oxygen You all learned about oxygen that it is vital for us, because our cells use it to produce energy. So you might not be surprised that oxygen is used to treat different conditions. However, the ways in which clinicians use it might be quite unexpected. Hyperbaric oxygen[1][2] H…