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Loving Husband Turns Wife's First Scientific Publication into Christmas OrnamentKelsie Wentz is a doctoral student in inorganic chemistry at the University of Virginia. Her first scholarly publication was “Extremely Twisted and Bent Pyrene-Fused N-Heterocyclic Germylenes.” She co-wrote this article with six other researchers and published it in Chemical Communications. It was a starting point for a great career in scientific publishing, which has been followed by two more articles since that time.Her husband recently celebrated this accomplishment by framing a tiny version of her journal article in a Christmas ornament. I can make out the title, but the rest should be read in a larger font.-via Lawrence Everett#chemistry #Christmas #Christmasornament

Check Out This Santa Claus Beach MosaicBeat4Art is an art collective—well, a family—of four people who live on the rocky shores of Devon County, UK. They make whimsical and temporary mosaics on the beaches. You can view these on their Instagram page or more permanently as prints purchased from Etsy.One of their most recent creation is this Santa Claus image, of which you can see a video here. Jolly Saint Nick is ready to make his deliveries.Other Christmas-themed creations include Christmas trees made out of sea glass, a gingerbread man made out of pinecones, a snowman, and a wreath.-via Street Art Utopia#beachart #SantaClaus #Christmas

The Booziest Comet Ever! Comet 46P/Wirtanen has the Highest Alcohol Content of Any CometComet 46P/Wirtanen was nicknamed the "Christmas Comet" when it made its flyby of Earth back in 2018, due to its holiday timing and its bright green glow. Now, a new study shows why it has another reason for its holiday cheer: it's full of booze!"46P/Wirtanen has one of the highest alcohol-to-aldehyde ratios measured in any comet to date," stated cometary scientist Neil Dello Russo of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory who studied the comet at the W.M. Keck Observatory on Manuakea in Hawaii, "This tells us information about how carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen molecules were distributed in the early solar system where Wirtanen formed."Image: Martin Stojanovski/Wikimedia Commons#comet #alcohol #Christmas #astronomy #WMKeckObservatory