This is one of the 10 illustrations by Dan Beard for John Jacob Aster’s book A Journey In Other Worlds. Well, actually it’s the one diagram. The other nine images show things … Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram of the Comparative Sizes of the Planets, 1895”
Science Daily shared news from University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center about mice trials that demonstrate memories actually being restored as brain energy levels are brought … Read the rest “Reversing Alzheimer’s? In mice at least….”
SONG: “Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game Theory cover)”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This is not based on scientific research; it’s a penitential… Read the rest “SONG: Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game Theory cover)”
An image of a cell, a neoplasm, from the National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine, the “Images from the History of Medicine” collection.
Gizmodo had a piece on a new heat-insulating film that’s so efficient, you can hold open flames in your hands and not be burned:
… Read the rest “Hold fire in this house bubble wrap”Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have
Biomechanics, with acrobats. A photo illustration by Karel Frydrýšek.
The description, translated from Czech, reads: “Four acrobats, chosen coordinate system, local center… Read the rest “Science Art: Akrobati, Lokální těžiště a hmotnosti, 2016”
Nature Communications has research from Cornell ornithologists and material engineers who created a new blacker-than-black dress that’s breathable and stretchable, because… Read the rest “Ultrablack dress made from bird-feather tech.”
From Theatro del mvndo, y del tiempo, which I’ve mentioned here before but have accessed yonder, on archive.org.
This is a chart of the human hand used as a measuring instrument for… Read the rest “Science Art: ORDEN DE LOS SIGNOS DEL ZODIACO, 1614.”
Science News reports on a colorful breakthrough in dinosaur hunting, thanks to two lichen species that prefer to grow on dinosaur bones and are a shade of orange that’s bright enough… Read the rest “Bright lichens reveal dino bones”
Science News reports on medical doctor and stem cell biologist Takanori Takebe’s quest to build a back-door alternative to invasive, awkward ventilator machines for pneumonia… Read the rest “Butt breathing for when lungs fail”
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