This is an ad from the April 1917 edition of Hugo Gernsback’s The Electrical Experimenter, which you can read o…
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This is an educational poster from the 1800s, published by L. Prang & Co., Bo…
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The description, translated from Czec…
Read moreNature reports on materials engineers stealing the secrets of octopus skin to create substances that can change color and texture on demand:
… Read the rest “Wearing octopus camouflage”Very small sub-micrometre bumps or grooves,
Science recently covered some breakthroughs in building robots that measure less than a millimeter square, but can sense surroundings, carry out commands, make calculations, and respond… Read the rest “Robots the size of microbes.”
This is an ad from the April 1917 edition of Hugo Gernsback’s The Electrical Experimenter, which you can read on archive.org here.
I can only assume this is an early blacklight bulb… Read the rest “Science Art: Violet-Rays!, 1917”
Science Daily reports on pilot whales and orcas in the Caribbean which DNA analysis has revealed are carrying “invisible” viruses we’ve never detected before:
… Read the rest “Caribbean whales have viruses we’ve never heard of.”The
Nature reports on new findings about the roots of mental fatigue — which has implications not just for generally feeling worn out, but also for conditions like chronic fatigue, surgical… Read the rest “Why is your brain so tired?”
CyberNews reports on Martha Root, a pseudonymous hacker who single-handedly infiltrated and shut down a series of websites dedicated to white power:
… Read the rest “Pink Power Ranger hacker breaks white power websites.”The leak affects WhiteDate, a white
Fifty-two breeds of chickens!
This is an educational poster from the 1800s, published by L. Prang & Co., Boston, the makers of “Prang’s American Chromos: FacSimiles… Read the rest “Science Art: The Poultry of the World, 1868”
Science ran a festive piece of research during the longest nights of winter, with biologists who’ve found that male white-tailed deer mark their territory during mating season … Read the rest “Deer pee glows during mating season”
This is one of the 10 illustrations by Dan Beard for John Jacob Aster’s book A Journey In Other Worlds. Well, actually it’s the one diagram. The other nine images show things … Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram of the Comparative Sizes of the Planets, 1895”
Science Daily shared news from University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center about mice trials that demonstrate memories actually being restored as brain energy levels are brought … Read the rest “Reversing Alzheimer’s? In mice at least….”
SONG: “Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game Theory cover)”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This is not based on scientific research; it’s a penitential… Read the rest “SONG: Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game Theory cover)”
An image of a cell, a neoplasm, from the National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine, the “Images from the History of Medicine” collection.
Gizmodo had a piece on a new heat-insulating film that’s so efficient, you can hold open flames in your hands and not be burned:
… Read the rest “Hold fire in this house bubble wrap”Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have
Biomechanics, with acrobats. A photo illustration by Karel Frydrýšek.
The description, translated from Czech, reads: “Four acrobats, chosen coordinate system, local center… Read the rest “Science Art: Akrobati, Lokální těžiště a hmotnosti, 2016”
Nature Communications has research from Cornell ornithologists and material engineers who created a new blacker-than-black dress that’s breathable and stretchable, because… Read the rest “Ultrablack dress made from bird-feather tech.”
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