Scientific American reports on new advances made by a team of Portuguese researchers toward getting electricity from the endless motion of the ocean:
… Read the rest “Wave power is surging ahead.”Waves alone produce 32,000 terawatt-hours
This is the frontispiece to A New Astronomy for Beginners, by David P. Todd, an 1897 textbook on the latest astronomical breakthroughs. The passage on page 298 about total eclipses says … Read the rest “Science Art: Total Eclipse of the Sun (from a painting by Kranz), 1897”
Quartz reports on a major move toward a cleaner, carbon-neutral future:
… Read the rest “The world’s largest shipping firm is putting $1.4 billion into sustainable engines.”The ships will be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries and are due to be delivered by 2024, each at a price tag of $175 million,
SONG: “Curling at the Edges”.
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SOURCE: Science, 1 Aug 19, “The Milky Way is more warped than astronomers thought,” as used in the post “Our… Read the rest “SONG: Curling at the Edges”
From the June 1949 issue of Natural History, the magazine of the American Museum of Natural History (which is archived here) comes a handy reference guide for telling the temperature based… Read the rest “Science Art: The Cricket Thermometer, by Cleve Hallenbeck.”
Science magazine celebrates a test result from the National Ignition Laboratory that brings us all one step closer to cheap, clean energy by using lasers to compress a “fuel capsule”… Read the rest “One step closer to a laser-powered fusion reactor.”
Houston Methodist Neurological Institute is proud to share the results of the first human trial of a magnet helmet that generates an oscillating magnetic field that appears to have successfully… Read the rest “A magnetic helmet (that you can wear at home) just shrank a brain tumor.”
Quanta Magazine reports on the creation – using a cutting-edge quantum computer – of something very close to a perpetual-motion machine, a kind of matter that changes between… Read the rest “Google researchers created a time crystal inside a quantum computer.”
This view of North Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, and the curvature of the Earth was taken by the ISS on May 19, 2012. The station was looking down from 218 nautical miles (404km) overhead.… Read the rest “Science Art: ISS031-E-59517 (Libya: PAN-TRIPOLITANIA, CYRENAICA, G. SIDRA, ISS)”
Science reports that the Milky Way isn’t quite as flat, edge-on, as we thought. It’s got a slight but detectable S-curve, like a piece of warping plywood:
… Read the rest “Our galaxy is warped. Just a little.”To make the map, astronomers
An illustration from a book the title of which begins Bawkunst Oder Architectur aller fürnemsten/ Nothwendigsten/ angehœrigen Mathematischen vnd Mechanischen Kuensten/ eygentlicher… Read the rest “Science Art: Flight Trajectory by Walther Hermann Ryff, 1582.”
New Scientist opens a new, fertile field of biological research with the discovery at Japan’s University of Yamanashi that it’s possible to freeze-dry viable sperm and stick… Read the rest “Viable sperm sent on a postcard”
The Guardian, a British paper, opens itself to the possibility of a near-Arctic future England after looking at some cold, hard facts. The Gulf Stream, scientists warn, is showing some … Read the rest “The Gulf Stream *might* be collapsing already.”
Scientific American marvels at caffeinated bumblebees, and the researchers who give busy bees caffeine and sugar to make them more focused and efficient:
… Read the rest “Bees on java.”[University of Greenwich ecologist
From an impressive page of bird diagrams in the Rand, McNally & Co.’s Encyclopedia and Gazetteer. “Birds are in some ways the highest of vertebrate animals,” … Read the rest “Science Art: Head of Falcon, Showing Beak, Nostril, Eye, and Ear…, 1889”
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