Bacterium Under Microscope
You may think these alien-looking bacteria would be unwelcome guests, but these lifeforms
actually make up 90 per cent of the living cells in our bodies. As these
incredible CGI images show, the human body is home to trillions of
weird and wonderful lifeforms.Tube shaped escherichia coli use their
three tails to swim vigorously up and down our guts, while salmonella
which are famous for food poisoning scares live happily on our skin with
no ill effects to us.
One Of The World’s Most Magical Places
Reed Flute Cave, Guilin, Guangxi, China
The cave got its name from the verdant
reeds growing outside it, with which people make flutes. Inside this
water-eroded cave is a spectacular world of various stalactites, stone
pillars and rock formations created by carbonate deposition.
Illuminated by colored lighting, the fantastic spectacle is found in
many variations along this 240-meter-long cave.
Devils Tower
Devils Tower is a monolithic igneous intrusion or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding terrain and the summit is 5,112 feet (1,558 m) above sea level.
Also known as Bears Lodge, it is a sacred site for many American Indians. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower the first national monument in 1906.
Devils Tower is made of phonolite porphyry. Phonolite refers to the ringing of the rock when a small slab is struck, and its ability to reflect sound. Porphyry refers to its texture, large crystals of feldspar embedded in a mass of smaller crystals.
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