Is this a mad scientist being busted? Something worse?
Ars Technica covers a weird, almost cinematic story out of California, where law enforcement officials have, following a code-enforcement tip, just busted an illegal lab […]
Month: July 2023
Science Art: If Bodies fill the Same Angle, their Size is Proportional to their Distance, 1898
This is an oddly domestic example of an astronomical principle … or maybe it only seems domestic to me because I keep a bicycle in […]
Theater of Nero discovered in Rome.
The expat news magazine Wanted in Rome reports on an archaeological discovery in the shadow of the Vatican – a theater dedicated to the notorious […]
Parrot-heads, celebrate: New isopod discovered in Florida Keys named for you-know-who.
PhysOrg introduces us to Gnathia jimmybuffetti, a little marine mystery-bug (or literally, “cryptofauna”) related to roly-poly pillbugs but named for that fella still looking for […]
Science Art: Armstrong Through the Years – LLRV-3 by NASA Graphics/Kirstin Sharrer
The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle-3 was an experimental Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle – a fancy hovercraft – that the Apollo astronauts used to […]
SONG: The Scientist (a penitential Coldplay cover)
SONG: “The Scientist (a penitential cover)” [Download] . (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This isn’t based on research It’s a cover of this […]
Bone jewelry means humans were in the Americas *before* the Bering Land Bridge.
IFLScience reports on some stylish, retro bangles coming from a Brazilian designer that are taking the world by storm … because they were made from […]
Science Art: Osprey in Flight, by Enrique Patino, 2011
The osprey is also known as the fish hawk, and as Pandion haliaetus, a name that comes from two parts: King Pandion II, the eighth […]
Ivory Lady was a prehistoric warrior queen (and maybe a warrior witch queen, too).
CNN reports on a Spanish discovery that a 5,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elephant tusk, an ostrich egg, an ivory comb and two daggers – […]
A human-like ape might have decorated the graves of its dead 330,000 years ago.
Science News reports on a controversy over Homo naledi, a human-like ape from 160,000 years before the first Homo sapiens, who might have been burying […]
Science Art: Binary Operations – Multiplication Mod 16, by Inductiveload.
This is a diagram of a times table. As the drawing’s description on Wikimedia Commons reads: Binary ring diagram to illustrate operators on binary numbers. […]
Astronomers might finally have seen the universe’s first stars.
Scientific American reports on a James Webb Space Telescope discovery, allowing scientists the first possible glimpses of the very first stars ever to shine in […]
AI trained on AI tends to collapse (like most cannibalizing systems do).
Venture Beat, a tech investing magazine, weighs in on research that looks directly at the problems that arise when AI is used to generate web […]
Cooking with gas increases cancer risk.
I hate to read it, but NPR reported on a Stanford study that found gas stoves increase levels of benzene in the home – a […]
Science Art: 100 years of international meteorological collaboration, by Karl Oskar Blase, 1973.
30 pfennigs could get you a lot of weather back in 1973 in West Germany. It commemorates a century of teaming up to watch the […]