Coffee's scorched drupe #tea:
Madder beans get burnt and boiled
for that tortured smell.

#scihaiku

Coffee is in the madder/bedstraw family. The fruits are drupes (stone fruit), not true beans (legumes/pulses.)

There's still no use in calling them coffee drupes, though.

#CATKINS

Branches pause mid-winter
to dangle firm ament bling
for wind-swept dates.

#WildWalkPrompt #haikufeels #pause #scihaiku

Note: catkins, also called aments, are generally male flowers.

Carbon dioxide
Can fizz oceans just so far
before mussels fail.

#SciHaiku

Chronic Illness and Ambiguous Loss When illness doesn't kill you but cannot be cured, you're living with "ambiguous loss." Learn what this is and how to cope with it.

Chronic illness

To be, yet not be
The self one recalls fondly--
Ambiguous loss.

#scihaiku

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/chro...

#vss365 #prompt #oddball #senryu #scihaiku

Normal normal norm
all normal normal normal
norm-ODDBALL!- normal...

Oddball paradigm: "(neuroscience) A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant."

ON PURPLE'S MAJESTY IN FLOWERS & FRUIT

pH-sensitive
Anthocyanins garnish
piquant verdure.

#Purple #WildWalkPrompt #scihaiku #gardening

#scihaiku

#scihaiku

Travel is travail;
both born of trepalium,
The Roman stake torture.

Travail is travel
in most occult syzygy;
like moon hiding sun.

Spirograph travel:
In year-long ellipses
Earth orbits the sun,
As it moves through the cosmos--
a three-stake problem for sure!

#vss365 prompt is #Travel #scihaiku

#scihaiku #astronomy

UPON A SUSPECTED SUPERKILONOVA

Celestial tango
Of new-born neutron stars ends
In heavy metal--

#scihaiku #haiku #astronomy #supernova

Wildcat denizens
Got usurped by invaders
With better patrons...

#scihaiku #cats

This late dispersal of domesticated cats overall helps to explain why cats didn't reach the Far East until the 5-6th century AD and that also from fairly limited gene pools. Yes, cats are still being domesticated.

Seeing faces in things
is called pareidolia!
Birds in skies? Common.

#senryu #astronomy #scihaiku #HeronGalaxy

Seeding Ice Clouds with Wildfire Emissions - Eos Wildfires create airborne plumes of organic and inorganic matter as they burn. These particles can nucleate cloud-forming ice crystals and affect cloud dynamics, precipitation, and climate.

#SenseWrds #Prompt157

Firework shows enthrall
The crowds ignoring the smoke
And the rain it calls--

#scihaiku #cloudformation

eos.org/research-spo...

Earthworms' industry
mulls grass roots and leaf litter
into mull humus.

#haikufeels #scihaiku

Old Martian moonrise
Rollin' tides, tuggin' big moon:
All's gone kablooey--

#haiku #scihaiku

Yet moony debris
keeps on keepin' in orbit-
double the moonrise.

When the waters calm:
Light waves bounce off smooth thresholds
for clear reflections.

#haikufeels #scihaiku

Scientists Built a Working Computer Memory Out of Shiitake Mushrooms A computer that relies on fungal mycelium to store information could one day be a low-cost alternative to the current generation of memory hardware.

The Memristor 2:
Shiitake cyborg takes Mars
Then thinks about things.

#scihaiku

www.sciencealert.com/scientists-b...

From some DNA
Unravel deep mysteries--
behold miracles.

#haikufeels #scihaiku

#scihaiku #haikufeels

Get down in that street
Pump these cross-modal neurons
Dance your reality

#haikufeels #scihaiku #senryu

(yes "aesthetic" is 3 syllables and more accurate per article, but "reality" just vibes better, per my aesthetic.)

A spark of goodness
Dancing through neurons goes poof--
Valence flips to bad.

#haikufeels #scihaiku

Gray Hair May Be Your Body’s Secret Cancer Defense The study reveals how hair pigment stem cells respond to DNA damage by making fate decisions that can result in either hair graying or the development of melanoma. Throughout life, our cells face cont...

#haikufeels #scihaiku

Brittle melanocytes
Bombarded by all toxins:
Grey death-- or cancer?

cf: scitechdaily.com/gray-hair-ma...

More accurately, better they die vs go on a mutated rampage.