Science Art: Pianta di Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1758.
It’s a map. An old map of an even older city. This is Piranesi’s map of ancient Rome (“and Forma Urbis”) from Le Antichità Romane, […]
Month: March 2024
“An archive of ancient human brains.”
Science Daily has research from University of Oxford archaeologists that is potentially upending a long-standing belief about digging up our long-ago ancestors. After looking through […]
Does tweeting research help?
Nature, always hoping to increase the reach of researchers, has a study that shows using the platform formerly known as Twitter to share research will […]
Tardigrade proteins can slow aging in humans.
Science Daily reminds us again of the charms of the humble, unkillable water bear, the tardigrade, a creature that can withstand nearly anything and just […]
Science Art: Four Phymata species from “Notas Sobre Phymatidae Neotropicales II,” October 1951.
An illustration of four ambush bugs from Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Or parts of ambush bugs. At […]
SONG: Great Big Love
SONG: “Great Big Love”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on The Guardian, 28 Feb 2024, “Humpback sex photographed for first time – […]
Baby dragons commute out of their caves.
The New York Times reports on olms — blind, pale, cave-dwelling salamanders once believed to be baby dragons — regularly traveling up to the surface […]
Science Art: HURRICANE FRAN – NARA – 17393787, by NASA.
Pictures of a storm from space. Big hurricanes are big! Fran was a Category 3 major hurricane – so a big storm, but far from […]
Ancient viruses gave us our brains.
“Language is a virus,” said William S. Burroughs. Now, Science Daily reports that researchers at Altos Labs-Cambridge Institute of Science have found that intelligence itself […]
Science Art: Relative Position of Observer and Observed in Direct Ophthalmoscopy, Arthur W. Head, 1917.
You gotta get right up in there if you really want to see what’s going on in those eyes. This is an illustration from a […]
Milking the amphibian
NPR has a story about a caecilian. Not Sicilian, but South American, these are to salamanders what glass snakes are to lizards: a legless version […]
Bumblebees teach each other.
Nature shares a study that found that bumblebees somehow communicate the solutions to complex puzzles to each other, something that only humans were thought to […]
Science Art: Earth by Henry De la Beche, from Researches in Theoretical Geology, 1834.
This depiction of Earth might be the first such image of our planet as seen from space. No human (as far as we know) had […]