Science Art: The “Johnson” Bucket Excavator, from American journal of railway appliances, 1886.
Click to embiggen A triumph of engineering. It moves earth! Using “the bucket principle”! As found in The Linda Hall Library.
Click to embiggen A triumph of engineering. It moves earth! Using “the bucket principle”! As found in The Linda Hall Library.
This is far funnier and more exciting than it has any right to be. Stephen Hawking playing chess over a computer with Paul Rudd. For […]
The Japanese strategy game, Nature reports, is the latest battlefield on which artificial intelligence has defeated human experts: The best human players of chess, draughts […]
Science Daily clinches it – not because of inaccuracy, but because of the sheer despair in considering that we’re not hearing anyone in our galaxy […]
Popular Mechanics celebrates a milestone for corporate spaceflight: The rocket once again passed through the Karman Line, a distance 100 kilometers (or 62 miles) above […]
Click to embiggen A big moon and a little moon, orbiting Saturn. Moons like Tethys (660 miles or 1,062 kilometers across) are large enough that […]
Science Daily reveals the unbalancing news that if you’re worried, you’re more likely to veer leftward while walking: New research led by Dr Mario Weick […]
Nature surveys the growing body of evidence of *something* very big orbiting at the fringes of the solar system: “If I read this paper out […]
The Guardian gives my inner paranoid schizophrenic ever more powerful wings to soar with news of a brain-monitoring implant that tracks your nerve impulses for […]
New Scientist delves into the advanced mapping of pizza slicing for *everyone’s* preferences: Most of us divide a pizza using straight cuts that all meet […]
Click to embiggen This is a detail of a page from Geology for Beginners, comprising a familiar explanation of geology, and its associate sciences, an […]
Science Daily reports that Japanese observers have just found the second-largest black hole in the Milky Way – by looking at clouds of gas: Astronomers […]
Wired reveals a pair of smart glasses that don’t look any different than any other pair of prescription frames – wearable computers just the way […]
Science Direct has a copy of the study recommending a soundproofed sanctuary for dolphins and other sonar-using marine life: Many marine organisms, from invertebrates to […]
Science Daily reports on the discovery of the brain circuit that recognizes danger: Researchers at Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and […]
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