SONG: We Ate Each Other’s Wings
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
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SONG: We Ate Each Other's Wings
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
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Read moreScience Art: Mars - Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreScience Art: Earth-moon Relationship MSC, HOUSTON, TX
This is a line drawing of the Apollo mission’s lunar module reaching the Moon, staying a while, and then coming…
Read moreScience Art: Chromista
An illustration from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “Biological Illustration” collection of chromista, whic…
Read moreScience Art: Eyes of Epeira conica x30, 1884
A spider’s face seen at 30-times magnification, from the February 1884 issue of Science Gossip.
This is i…
Read moreSONG: Birds Are Digging
SONG: “Birds Are Digging”. (OGG version here.)
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Science Art: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is the China National Space Administration – this… Read the rest “Science Art: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck”
The sacred stone axes hunted cosmic game
IFL Science looks back in time, studying handaxes made by Homo erectus from unlikely materials like crystals or fossils … which seem likely to have been created for religious reasons,… Read the rest “The sacred stone axes hunted cosmic game”
Diagnosed by your contact lens
Science Adviser looks at medical advice given by an optometrist on a contact lens:
… Read the rest “Diagnosed by your contact lens”When your optometrist asks you to look through a machine at the red hot air balloon in the distance and warns
The Carroll Crater
Mashable is one of the outlets that reported on the naming of a newly identified lunar crater by the astronauts of the Artemis mission… one of the most moving stories from this voyage… Read the rest “The Carroll Crater”
Science Art: Earth-moon Relationship MSC, HOUSTON, TX
This is a line drawing of the Apollo mission’s lunar module reaching the Moon, staying a while, and then coming back home.
It’s a few decades old now. I think we’re getting… Read the rest “Science Art: Earth-moon Relationship MSC, HOUSTON, TX”
France ditches Windows for Linux
Not the people; the country. Techcrunch reports on a European government switching operating systems to avoid relying on U.S. tech:
… Read the rest “France ditches Windows for Linux”Linux is an open source operating system that is free
Science Art: Chromista
An illustration from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “Biological Illustration” collection of chromista, which is a proposed kingdom of life. As in animal, vegetable,… Read the rest “Science Art: Chromista”
Hammerheads “thermal hustle” for better hunting
BBC’s Discover Wildlife reports on a shark study that finds some simple ways hammerhead sharks are shifting to cope with the warming seas from climate change:
… Read the rest “Hammerheads “thermal hustle” for better hunting”All living things have
New star tells oldest story, 12 billion years later
Mashable reports on a newly discovered star that can serve as a time capsule for the some of the earliest days of the universe, made out of remnants of one of the first stars ever to wink on and… Read the rest “New star tells oldest story, 12 billion years later”
Science Art: Eyes of Epeira conica x30, 1884
A spider’s face seen at 30-times magnification, from the February 1884 issue of Science Gossip.
This is illustrating a sort of study, or perhaps prose poem, about this spider species.… Read the rest “Science Art: Eyes of Epeira conica x30, 1884”
Brains keep developing at every age.
Nature reports on the first atlas of brain development — a map of where and when new cells develop in human brains — and the surprising finding that human brains never stop developing,… Read the rest “Brains keep developing at every age.”
SONG: Birds Are Digging
SONG: “Birds Are Digging”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “How A Black Fossil Digger Became a Superstar in the Very White World of Paleontology”… Read the rest “SONG: Birds Are Digging”
Cockroaches bond by eating each other’s wings.
NPR shares romance among the insects with research that shows at least one species of cockroach, Salganea taiwanensis, forms long-term pair-bonds. And, poetically, these cockroach … Read the rest “Cockroaches bond by eating each other’s wings.”
Science Art: OSIRIS-REx after SRC release, 2023
This is a still from an animation showing what a larger spaceship does after firing a small capsule toward Earth. The capsule is filled with samples from an asteroid.
The description, from… Read the rest “Science Art: OSIRIS-REx after SRC release, 2023”