This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
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Read moreReally, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreThis is a line drawing of the Apollo mission’s lunar module reaching the Moon, staying a while, and then coming…
Read moreAn illustration from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “Biological Illustration” collection of chromista, whic…
Read moreA spider’s face seen at 30-times magnification, from the February 1884 issue of Science Gossip.
This is i…
Read moreBBC’s Science Focus is digging in the dirt to get inside the mystery of “dark earth,” which seems to make the Amazon as fertile as it is… though no one knows how it… Read the rest “Trees grow six times taller in strange Amazonian soil.”
This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorologist, and a Theosophist mystic who died in 1922.
There’s a collection… Read the rest “Science Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.”
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
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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”
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”
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
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”
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”
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
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”
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
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”
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”
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”. (OGG version here.)
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