Eater of planets.
Not Galactus, but Jupiter, says New Scientist. The king of planets got to be so big because it gorged itself on super-Earths sometime in its […]
Month: August 2010
Desert feeds jungle.
Nature reveals a hidden connection between Sahara dust and the Amazon rainforest: Significant amounts of plant nutrients have been found in atmospheric mineral dust blowing […]
Catch the Perseids.
Big show. Shooting stars. Tomorrow night, night after that. Space.com has some details. Go. Watch the skies.
Radioactive boars rising.
Oh. OK. Discovery is reporting that the population of radioactive boars is increasing in Europe: Radioactive wild boars are on the rise in Germany, where […]
Science Art: Ventricose Cuttlefish, probably by Charles Knight
Click to embiggen A close-up from another page of Charles Knight’s Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature. This may be mistitled – other creatures on the […]
Zeppelin reborn
The Telegraph heralds the future fleet of mighty airships: Hybrid Air Vehicles has built a scale prototype of what will soon be the largest flying […]
Bringing down the sun.
Science Daily has the skinny on cheaper solar power: Stanford engineers have figured out how to simultaneously use the light and heat of the sun […]
Gorilla glass!
The Christian Science Monitor loves primates. On the heels of the flying squirrel discovery, they’re analyzing the economic ramifications of “gorilla glass”: Two to three […]
Need to bother your monkey? Try flying squirrels!
It’s really hard to beat the Christian Science Monitor’s headline on this story…. Monkeys hate flying squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts: “Human evolution occurred alongside primate […]
Fare thee well, Triceratops.
They came for Pluto. They came for Brontosaurus. And now, BoingBoing reports, they’ve come for Triceratops: maybe we should be calling it torosaurus now, I’m […]
Science Art: Seals, from The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature.
Click to embiggen Seals and seal hunters, from Charles Knight’s Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, exact publication date unknown but currently accessible at archive.org. They […]