Climate change real-estate boom: Buy high. Really high.
Fast Company looks to the heights to chronicle a potential climate change real estate boom: Scientists and politicians have even come to the conclusion that […]
Science Art: Human Factors: Scanning Male and Standing Female, 1964.
This had to have been meant slightly tongue-in-cheek at the time… hadn’t it? Bespectacled man, meet Vitruvian…
Read moreScience Art: Amoeba. Actinophrys. by Philip Henry Gosse.
This is a scientific illustration done as a paper collage; that is, Philip Gosse took a sheet of paper, painted…
Read moreScience Art: Pianta di Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1758.
It’s a map. An old map of an even older city. This is Piranesi’s map of ancient Rome (“and Forma Urbis”) from L…
Read moreScience Art: Four Phymata species from "Notas Sobre Phymatidae Neotropicales II," October 1951.
An illustration of four ambush bugs from Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, found in the Biodiversity…
Read moreSONG: Great Big Love
SONG: “Great Big Love”. (available as .ogg here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on The Guardian, 28 Feb 202…
Read moreScience Art: HURRICANE FRAN - NARA - 17393787, by NASA.
Pictures of a storm from space. Big hurricanes are big!
Fran was a Category 3 major hurricane – so a big st…
Read moreScience Art: Plate from Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah by Abu Ja`far al-Ghafiqi.
In the 11th century, this was the pinnacle of medical knowledge – a book called Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah compiled by an Andalusian scholar Abu […]
A tsunami on the surface of the sun.
BBC has video footage taken by NASA’s SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) and Japan’s Hinode spacecraft, two satellites that have just filmed a tsunami on the […]
New language being born in Australia
I heard this on NPR, but it’s been doing the rounds lately – as all happy news should. Rather than mourning the death of yet […]
You don’t get bitten because you’re so sweet. Well, not exactly….
Smithsonian explains summer’s great mystery – why mosquitoes find some victims sweeter: An estimated 20 percent of people, it turns out, are especially delicious for […]
Prehistoric art shows psychedelic traces, scientists say.
Alternet (of course) spreads the news that researchers studying our earliest ancestors have collected some intriguing proof that cave painters were tripping: Their thesis intriguingly […]
NASA 3D prints a rocket engine part.
BBC has the details on the space-agency’s successful test of a printed fuel injector: The part is used to deliver liquid oxygen and hydrogen gas […]
Science Art: Plan for the Muscles of the Eye by John Bell, 1810
A striking gaze from Engravings of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints, Illustrating the First Volume of the Anatomy of the Human Body by John Bell, […]
The backyard plasma ships (that you can help build).
Laboratory Equipment spreads the word (and we’re spreading it farther) about these space scientists who’ve decided to use Kickstarter to send the first plasma-drive ship […]
Flying robot lands on aircraft carrier.
I’m not sure whether to be in awe of this or to be totally blase. But Reuters is reporting that for the first time, an […]
Frederick Kaufman wants to open-source genetically modified crops. And maybe save the planet.
Slate has printed his controversial plan to live up to the promise of gene science without the industrial agriculture downside: The GMO story has become […]
Wanna help explore the ocean? You can.
Nature reports on a new initiative to crowdsource oceanography: Just about the first action involved in any experiment at sea is the casting overboard of […]
Make marshes, keep Earth cool.
Laboratory Equipment recommends getting bogged down to prevent global warming, with research that shows man-made marshes can fight climate change: …[S]ays Bill Mitsch, director of […]
NASA answers 7-year-old’s letter.
Stay cool, space explorers. Never change.
Science Art: Black Hole Lensing by Urbane Legend
An animated GIF (if it’s not moving for you, click the link) showing what it looks like if you’re looking at a black hole when […]