The oldest animal.
The Guardian pulls back the veil – using fossilized cholesterol, of all things – on what could be the world’s oldest animal – an oval-shaped […]
The Guardian pulls back the veil – using fossilized cholesterol, of all things – on what could be the world’s oldest animal – an oval-shaped […]
Space.com makes an announcement that sounds… more fun than usual. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency landed two rovers that hop (like fleas? like springtails? like […]
Click to embiggen Electrical history from PW Lanier and the Minneapolis Institute of Art: This tabletop Tesla coil was likely made for science classes, producing […]
Observing the equinox. Have music (roughly) but no good words… yet. Song and penitential cover coming soon.
It’s an iconic, stress-inducing sound – think about medical dramas or crime thrillers set in hospitals. And now, we bring the beep home, some of […]
Nature asks the question raised by University of Florida astronomers: how did Roddenberry know there’d be a hot, heavy, but Earth-like planet orbiting 40 Eridani?: […]
Popular Science shows what it takes to get data sometimes – when the enormous marine reptile you affixed your tracking equipment to carries on migrating […]
Click to embiggen Not just a kangaroo, and not just a nail-tailed kangaroo. A lunated nail-tailed kangaroo. And a cute one, too. From John Gould’s […]
Science News goes deeper into a rock that bears a cross-hatch pattern made 73,000 years ago in a South African cave: The discovery “helps round […]
The Guardian unveils the bonnethead as the first confirmed omnivorous shark species: Scientists at the University of California in Irvine, and Florida International University in […]
Click to embiggen This is a view of one of the automatic music-making devices collected by the Centre International de la Mécanique d’Art (CIMA), a […]
Science Daily reports (factually) on a UC Berkeley study that reveals how the feedback we get makes us so certain about our wrong beliefs: “If […]
Science Daily asks a strange question and the University of Exeter gets a strange answer. At night, when the zookeeper is asleep, what do flamingos […]
Science Direct has a social media study from psychologists at Toronto’s York University and Adelaide’s Flinders University, who’ve found that women feel worse about themselves […]
Click to embiggen This image is from the Public Domain Review’s essay, “The Poetry of Victorian Science,” which is as much up this site’s alley […]
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