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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

We’ve found a “third state” between life and death.

Some cells refuse to accept death when the organism does. Instead, they adapt, reinvent themselves, and sometimes start over.

Researchers have found that certain cells, taken from a recently deceased body and placed in the right conditions, can awaken into a surprising new existence. They self-organize into living, moving entities that behave in ways their original bodies never did. Scientists describe this neither as full life nor true death, but as a third state—something in between.

In a landmark experiment, skin cells from deceased frog embryos were scattered into a dish. Within days, they gathered into multicellular clusters called xenobots. These tiny creations could crawl, self-repair, and—most astonishingly—reproduce by sweeping loose cells into piles that then became new xenobots.

The phenomenon isn’t limited to frogs. Human lung cells, harvested postmortem, recently formed anthrobots—microscopic blobs that propel themselves through liquid and can even encourage healing in damaged neural tissue nearby.

This remarkable plasticity reveals that even after the organism dies, many of its cells retain not only basic function but a kind of creative agency—the ability to change identity and build entirely new structures.

The implications are profound. In the near future, patient-derived biobots could be engineered to deliver drugs directly to tumors, scrape plaque from arteries, or mend injured tissue, then harmlessly dissolve after weeks without triggering immune reactions.

Death, it turns out, is not always final at the cellular level. Some of our cells may still have work left to do long after we’re gone.

["Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms − pushing the boundaries of life, death and medicine." The Conversation, 2024]

[Astro Poets @poetastrologers]

Week of 11/9 in Gemini: So the music. Let itself be seen. With wishes. With ways of knowing.

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

The stunning ‘Butterfly Nebula’ by Hubble space telescope 🦋

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

In a new quantum experiment, scientists saw something that challenges everything we think we know about time. Instead of flowing forward like a river, time seemed to loop and fold back on itself. Particles behaved as if their future could affect their past, blurring the line between cause and effect in ways that defy ordinary understanding.

This strange behavior was observed through quantum entanglement a phenomenon where two particles remain mysteriously linked, no matter how far apart they are. When scientists changed how they measured one particle, it seemed to alter the history of its partner retroactively. It’s as if “now” and “then” exist together, constantly reshaping each other in a single, connected moment.

The findings hint that time may not be a one-way path but a flexible structure that bends and connects distant events. Your choices don’t rewrite your past, but on a quantum level, the universe might not follow the rules of linear order at all. Reality could be stranger than we’ve ever imagined.

[astrology bot @hourIyhoroscope]

this is just the beginning, gemini.

[pho @photonisdead]

all that remains

[pastoral fantasies @apastoraldream]

you take to the mountains

[pastoral fantasies @apastoraldream]

you sit out on the hill and watch the sunset before walking home together in the deepening twilight

[𝗞lark @KnightClawk]

The Clearest Image of Jupiter ever taken!

[pastoral fantasies @apastoraldream]

after a few nights of heavy cloud cover, you step out to see the stars

[soli @solisolsoli]

Edge of Darkness by Ben J

[Mythology Bot @MythologyBot]

D1812.5
Future learned through omens.

[Mythology Bot @MythologyBot]

F80.1.1
Castle
in lower world.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Today's Huge Eruption On The Sun (Credit: NOAA/NASA/GOES-R)

[YUDHO @YUDHO_XYZ]

"𝕺𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕰𝖉𝖌𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖔𝖘"

¹/¹ 🔗 ʏᴜᴅʜᴏ .xʏᴢ ←

[Mythology Bot @MythologyBot]

H1337
Quest
for sword
of light.

[David Lynch @DAVID_LYNCH]

Remember, the individual is cosmic.

[BLΛC @blac_ai]

the path reveals itself.