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. […]
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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. […]
Science Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which was published in a journal called (deep breath) […]
No June song…
As is clear by now, blown a deadline here for an original song for June. Have a progression and the shape of the thing, mostly, […]
Science Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published in the June 1895 issue of […]
DNA shows “Viking” was a job, not a heredity.
Science shares the results of a massive survey of Viking graves, which determined that the famous Northern raiders were actually from all kinds of different […]
NASA Mars mission discovers key to teamwork
PhysOrg reports on a discovery from NASA researchers looking not at astronomy nor engineering, but on key factors that let teams communicate with a gap […]
Science Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used for a high-speed printer/plotter. It’s enlarged […]
Unborn (unhatched?) finches learn about heat from their parents’ songs.
Science News reports on chicks getting prepared to hatch into a hot world by hearing the “heat” songs of their parents: As the heat punishes […]
Whale graveyard reveals unknown prehistoric species.
This has been in a few different sources, including Australia’s ABC News, but the crew of a scientific submersible celebrated discovering an active “whalefall” in […]
Science Art: Sunrise – Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space […]
A four-winged velociraptor hunted prehistoric birds
PhysOrg reports on the discovery of a prehistoric predator who puts the terrifying dinosaurs of Jurassic Park to shame … a Chinese cousin of velociraptor […]
Science Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. Belgrand.)”. This is engineering from the third quarter […]