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It’s one of w…
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This is part of a graphic from a 1953 issue of Natural History, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History’s magazine. The article it’s illustrating is about taking a life mask… Read the rest “Science Art: Lincoln’s Measurements, compared with “Old Americans,” 1953 (detail).”
Space reveals that the far side of the moon was once a vast, glowing ocean of magma, according to samples retrieved by a Chinese lunar lander:
… Read the rest “Far side of the moon’s fiery past.”The Chang’e 6 mission launched in early
Nature chats with a few researchers about something that’s been known for more than 30 years but is still not really widely accepted – that there’s a demonstrated link… Read the rest “Alcohol and cancer”
This is the largest volcano in our solar system, as far as anybody knows — the mighty Olympus Mons, as snapped by the ESA Mars Express mission’s HRSC, or High-Resolution Stereo… Read the rest “Science Art: Mars, Olympus Mons near the terminator, Andrea Luck, 2025”
Have I cited TechDirt here before? I’m pretty sure I have. Anyway, in a sign of the weird times today, they’ve just come out and said that because they’re an outlet for … Read the rest “TechDirt is a democracy blog.”
Nature reports on a new record from the transplant waiting list, with an Australian patient who spent 100 days waiting for a donor organ with a mechanical heart made of titanium pumping in… Read the rest “100 days with a titanium heart”
This is the illustration from a full-page ad from the Hughes Aircraft Company in the Jan/Feb 1966 issue of Information Display magazine.
This isn’t selling a product — at least… Read the rest “Science Art: Opportunities for Design & Development Engineers…, 1966.”
National Geographic marvels at a recently discovered sea creature named, due to its bizarrely voluptuous curves and clefts, the pigbutt worm:
… Read the rest “The pigbutt worm: a marine mystery.”Such was the case in 2001 when experts from
Nature: Scientific Reports wants you to know why your cat is making faces at you. They’ve published a study that uses artificial intelligence to decipher “CatFACS codings”… Read the rest “AI to translate cat faces.”
This is an image from The New Astronomy, a textbook of space sciences I found on archive.org.
It’s one of what was at the time the largest telescopes ever built, a reflector that used… Read the rest “Science Art: The Great Paris Reflector, 1898.”
I grew up learning (rightly or wrongly) that pancreatic cancer was “one of the bad ones,” fast-moving and tough to beat. Now, Science Friday is announcing that there’s… Read the rest “A vaccine for pancreatic cancer.”
SONG: “Hashtag Exclamation (#!%^)”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “‘Just give me the f***ing links!’—Cursing disables Google’s… Read the rest “SONG: Hashtag Exclamation (#!%^)”
You probably shouldn’t eat these.
This is an illustration of a Lepiota mushroom from the Bulletin de la Société botanique de France. The genus includes quite a few toxic species, … Read the rest “Science Art: Lepiota Echinellus, 1887”
Mashable wants to know (along with NASA researchers) just what kind of critters are sticking to the International Space Station or surrounding it like an invisible cloud of living things… Read the rest “So just how much life are we already spreading into space?”
Food Safety Magazine reports on University of Florida researchers who are closing in on a medicine that could prevent potentially lethal, antibiotic-resistant food poisoning …… Read the rest “A vaccine against salmonella”
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