Science Art: Voyager Spacecraft During Vibration Testing, 1977
Click to embiggen A still life from the NASA Great Images collection. This was a prototype of the craft that went on to explore the […]
Month: September 2009
Human see. Chimps do.
We’ve been watching chimpanzee’s faces. Why not? They can be funny to look at, often, and they can help us understand how we communicate emotions […]
How do geckos drop their tails?
ABC Science (the Australian network, not the American one) is taking a long look at lizards – specifically, the medical information we can get from […]
Affordable solar? Hair’s the ticket.
OK, sorry for that headline. Ahem. But here! There are these two kids in Nepal who figured out how to make solar energy a heck […]
Reclaiming forgotten power.
I just had an enjoyable email exchange with a friend who asked me about something he’d been wondering. (These are generally the best kinds of […]
Terror from the farm.
Johns Hopkins University is unleashing a wave of… no, wait. It’s farms. Johns Hopkins is just warning about it. Farms, however, are unleashing a wave […]
Science Art: Discoaster surculus.
Click to embiggen This is Discoaster surculus. Remember last week, that ocean picture that showed millions of coccolithophores floating in the ocean, sucking up CO2 […]
Welcome back to the territory, TMBG.
The association between songs about science and songs for kids is never entirely broken, I guess, since both endeavors are supposedly educational. So it’s just […]
Prehistoric squid drawn in prehistoric ink.
The Telegraph unveils a beautiful portrait of a fearsome beast – an ancient squid drawn in its own petrified ink: “It is difficult to imagine […]
The physics of finance: Or, the puppetmasters revealed.
Scientists are not just getting into creating music, InsideScience informs me. They’ve also figured out the magic of finance: A pair of physicists at the […]