SONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale graveyard found in Indian Ocean off Australia”, ABC News (Australia), 10 […]
Month: July 2026
Looking for Civil War relics, finding a Spanish mission
Florida archaeologists got more — way more — than they bargained for when they started digging near Chipley, Florida. According to The Cooldown, an excavation […]
Stress literally goes from your brain to your gut to your bones.
Singularity reports on a new study charting the pathway that stress takes from brain to your body — literally going into the center of your […]
Science Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, on archive.org — and, […]
Nobel-winning chemist, tech founder leaves US for China.
Strange to see American political-ish news in Nature of all places (a British scientific journal, after all) but here we are. One of the world’s […]
Science Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers in Badlands National Park, South Dakota. […]
Fart science: How do you rank?
JAMA just published a study that blows open the long-repressed science of flatulence, revealing how much gas the average person passes, and when: Introduction Flatulence […]
Science Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via Nemfrog). It’s described by the editors thusly: Crouch’s […]
The Collider’s long shutdown.
CERN has announced a shutdown dramatic enough that they’re giving it an acronym: LS3, the Long Shutdown 3 for the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider. […]