Science Art: Robert Roy (Fig. 14) Heredity of Albinism
Click to embiggen Found in VintagePrintable.com’s Life Science gallery.
Month: September 2010
Humpbacked weirdosaur.
There’s a great piece up at ScienceBlogs demonstrating how paleontology (and, even better, paleontological art) really works. It’s Darren Naish enthusing about a particularly strange-looking […]
Conching dolphins.
New Scientist tells the story of dolphins using tools to hunt: Simon Allen, a behavioural ecologist at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, was out on […]
Medical diamonds.
Discovery News digs deep for a story on things diamonds can do that are more than skin deep: Virtually any kind of protein or chemical […]
Charles Darwin: Terraformer
The BBC exposes a secret experiment by the man who brought us evolution: an island that Darwin turned into an artificial ecosystem: Ascension was an […]
Science Art: Two-Dimensional Low-Turbulence Tunnel
Click to embiggen NASA has a new collection on Flickr Commons. It’s pretty awesome. So is this wind tunnel, also known as the “ice tunnel” […]
Frog skin super-drugs…
…will beat those super-bugs. Science Daily reveals a brand new source for potent antibiotics: The scientists are currently screening skin secretions from more than 6,000 […]
What do you have to say?
That’s the question posed by a fun linguistic think-piece in the New York Times. The article looks over the latest developments in linguistic determination – […]
Lungless, projectile-tongued salamander discovered.
And it’s up to the Guardian to tell me about the latest critter found in Appalachia: Its jaw and tooth structure suggest that it uses […]