The first green star
RNZ reports on the discovery of an astronomical first, as astronomers used to identifying red giants, black holes, white dwarfs, and stars of a few […]
Science Art: MOON: For the Benefit of Humanity, 2023
It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreScience Art: Bubble chamber with colour enhanced tracks, 2026
This is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreScience Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.
Starfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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1 Arm
2…
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
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Science Art: MOON: For the Benefit of Humanity, 2023
It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equipment, as well as what I make out as […]
Perseverance beats Opportunity on Mars
IFL Science reports on a new record set by a Mars rover. Perseverance has, in just 5 years, beaten Opportunity’s 15-year record for the furthest […]
Science Art: Bubble chamber with colour enhanced tracks, 2026
This is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-century eyes. As it says on […]
The couples that rock together, stay together….
BBC Science Focus finds that one factor has an edge in determining whether romantic partners really are compatible … and that’s similar taste in music: […]
The only workout to lose fat and keep muscle: high-intensity.
So much for my tai chi. After a six-montd, y stuyScience Daily says, especially with older adults, only one kind of exercise reliably loses fat […]
RIP Margaret Hamilton, moon-shot programmer
MIT News was one of several science outlets to mark the passing of the woman who made the Apollo program happen, by programming the computers […]
Science Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.
Starfish anatomy. If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are: Legend 1 Arm 2 Ampullae 3 Radial canal 4 Gonads […]
Loud, loud birds
404 Media reports on two new contenders for the world’s loudest bird — the bare-throated bellbird and the red-legged seriema — both of whom can […]
Science Art: Jupiter’s Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a little more. It’s […]
SONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version
Science Art: Beebe’s Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was created by Swiss explorer/geologist/teacher/photographer Leo Wehrli… maybe. […]
First new cat species IDed in a century.
NBC News reports on Bolivia’s tilcayo tiger cat, a creature that looks like a cheetah or an ocelot but is smaller than a domestic cat […]
Science Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes. As the caption from Popular Electronics says (found here, on archive.org): A fossil particle was […]
Boat-wrecking orcas might only be playing.
Science looks at the much-publicized rash of attacks on yachts and other oceangoing vessels by killer whales and finds the whales don’t really seem to […]