Rosetta’s last kiss.
Reuters waxes poetic with their description of ESA’s Rosetta space probe giving comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko one “final kiss” before crash landing near the silent Philae lander: […]
Month: June 2016
They’ve just about got a vaccine for Zika.
Science Daily reports on a pretty quick turnaround for a health crisis: In a paper published today in the journal Nature, a research team led […]
Making batteries from seafood leftovers.
Hakai magazine explains how we can turn crab and lobster shells into batteries, plastics and (maybe) scaffolds for growing new organs: [Mark] MacLachlan [of the […]
Science Art: Theoria Satellitum Iovis et Saturni from Atlas Coelestis by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, 1742.
A geometry of the heavens (specifically the moons of Jupiter and Saturn0, as envisioned by mathematician, astronomer, and mapmaker Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, a German who […]
SONG: “Electric Wind”
SONG: “Electric Wind”. [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Water on Venus was stripped away by ‘electric wind’,” Wired, 21 June 2016, as used in the post […]
Microbes that feed on electricity
Quanta Magazine introduces us to little creatures that use electricity as food: The electricity-eating microbes that the researchers were hunting for belong to a larger […]
The electric wind left Venus without water or air.
Wired has more on how Venus was left a waterless desert due to the “wind” of charged particles from the Sun: Venus is one of […]
3D printers make a methane-eating plastic… that excretes fuel.
Science Daily has more on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers who have 3D-printed a polymer that turns methane to methanol: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory […]
Science Art: Philips H7 headlamp . Mo-cover filament polycrystals, by Ivan.V.Nemtsev
This is the filament of a headlight – a halogen bulb you put in the front end of your car, one of these – as […]
Team Rainbow Power finds Denmark’s largest trove of Viking gold.
Denmark’s The Local reports on three plucky archaeologists who (apparently) have made a historic find of Viking treasure in Jutland: The three archaeologists, who call […]
Eastern cougar: Extinct, officially.
The CBC – and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – are confirming what scientists have suspected for a long time… that the Eastern cougar […]
France – *France* – will save us all from the next killer asteroid.
Oh, yes. Nature tries to downplay it, but it’s the French who have launched an unprecedented meteor-spotting network to scan the skies: By the end […]
Lasers find lost Cambodian empire
Guardian reports on multiple medieval Cambodian cities that had been forgotten – evidence of an entire lost empire just discovered via LIDAR scans: The Australian […]
Science Art: An early map of the planet Mars, by Richard A. Proctor, 1867.
A map of the planet Mars by astronomer Richard A. Proctor. The names we use for features on Mars nowadays come from Giovanni Schiaparelli – […]
Listening to the music of the oldest stars.
Sci-News turns an ear to the heavens to learn about the oldest stars in the Milky Way – by listening to their acoustic oscillations: The […]