Scientists communicate with pictures (graphs, images, flowcharts, etc) because it’s often impossible to convey experimental results with just words. So a picture is truly worth a thousand words, right?
I checked this out by dividing the total words by the number of figure panels in a few recent Reports to Science and Letters to Nature. It seems a picture is worth more like 606 +/- 381 and 296 +/- 97 words, respectively.
Doesn’t matter anyways, because scientists are all watching movies these days. Watch the neutrophil (white blood cell) below chasing the little bacteria.
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That is too cool! I wonder how they take videos like that?
It’s like PacMan…only inside your body… Way awesome.
How hard would it be to make an organism that could survive on mars? Could it do anything useful there?
- Wolfgang