The full caption of this figure reads “Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism) of branches of coronary a…
Read moreThis is a switch for “constant current” electricity to go into a building, a “A modern commercial form of this …
Read moreUnblinking, the lidless eye gazes out from its skull, unseeing.
I found this anatomical image while browsin…
Read moreThis is an image from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, a German natural history museum, where they have a skel…
Read moreAn image from an ad from the Jan/Feb 1974 issue of the Journal for the Society for Informational Display.
T…
Read moreIs it strange how much this resembles a 1950s comic-book cover about dashing flying saucer pilots? And we made …
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The full caption of this figure reads “Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism) of branches of coronary arteries in a case of anomalous origin of the left coronary from the… Read the rest “Science Art: Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism)…, 1915.”
IFL Science has a new explanation of “The Great Unconformity,” a worldwide phenomenon in which about a billion years of rock deposits are just missing, everywhere around … Read the rest “A new explanation for the missing billion years in Earth’s geologic record.”
Last month, BBC’s Science Focus reported on an “astonishingly” large dinosaur discovered in the Sahara Desert of Niger — a bus-sized behemoth with a crescent-shaped… Read the rest “School bus-sized spinosaur discovered”
This is a switch for “constant current” electricity to go into a building, a “A modern commercial form of this switch,” is what the book calls it.
The book in question… Read the rest “Science Art: Modern Electrical Construction, Fig. 58, 1905”
Nature reports on research that gave mice acetate, a common byproduct of digesting alcohol, glucose, or fiber… and found that it improved long-term memory — in the female … Read the rest “Better long-term memory … for females, at least.”
I have the bones of a song, but no proper lyrics. I owe you a song, and a penitential cover. Mea maxima culpa.
Unblinking, the lidless eye gazes out from its skull, unseeing.
I found this anatomical image while browsing through the “Featured Images” collection on Wikimedia Commons… Read the rest “Science Art: Eye orbit anatomy anterior 2, by Patrick Lynch.”
PhysOrg considers the flight paths of honeybees in three dimensions and finds that the insects are even more precise than anyone imagined:
… Read the rest “Honey bees navigate VERY precisely.”A team from the University of Freiburg led by neurobiologist
PhysOrg reports on a very old tool – does it count as a power tool? At any rate, it was made in Egypt thousands of years ago, rediscovered in the 1920s and then, on re-examination now, … Read the rest “A drill older than the pharoahs”
This is an image from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, a German natural history museum, where they have a skeleton of a stegosaurus relative unearthed in Tendaguru, Tanzania.
It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Kentrosaurus aethiopicus, by H. Zell.”
NPR shared the story of Lazarus Kgasi, who started as a laborer but fell in love with the science — and is now helping shape what we know of life’s origins:
… Read the rest “Black South African digger becomes paleontology star”This is the story of how
An image from an ad from the Jan/Feb 1974 issue of the Journal for the Society for Informational Display.
The edition is pretty light on scientific illustrations and pretty heavy on flowcharts… Read the rest “Science Art: Cathode Ray Tubes, 1974”
Science reports on a discovery researchers are putting up there with GLP-1 anti-obesity drugs. In this case, snakes can survive long, and foodless, periods of hibernation by getting rid… Read the rest “Snakes can fast because they got rid of a hormone.”
A University of Pennsylvania grad researcher has found that teenagers who smoke tobacco are at higher risk for addiction to morphine, heroin, or fentanyl, because early nicotine exposure… Read the rest “Teenage cigarettes lead to grown-up opioid trouble.”
Is it strange how much this resembles a 1950s comic-book cover about dashing flying saucer pilots? And we made it real, and we sent it to space piloted by remote control computers with a crew… Read the rest “Science Art: Curiosity Approaching Mars, Artist’s Concept, 2012”
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