Science Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.
Starfish anatomy. If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are: Legend 1 Arm 2 Ampullae 3 Radial canal 4 Gonads […]
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Loud, loud birds
404 Media reports on two new contenders for the world’s loudest bird — the bare-throated bellbird and the red-legged seriema — both of whom can […]
Science Art: Jupiter’s Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a little more. It’s […]
SONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version
Science Art: Beebe’s Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was created by Swiss explorer/geologist/teacher/photographer Leo Wehrli… maybe. […]
First new cat species IDed in a century.
NBC News reports on Bolivia’s tilcayo tiger cat, a creature that looks like a cheetah or an ocelot but is smaller than a domestic cat […]
Science Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes. As the caption from Popular Electronics says (found here, on archive.org): A fossil particle was […]
Boat-wrecking orcas might only be playing.
Science looks at the much-publicized rash of attacks on yachts and other oceangoing vessels by killer whales and finds the whales don’t really seem to […]
Immune cells from the neck cause Alzheimer’s in the brain
In a strange reflection of the last post here, Science has a report on a study at Washington University in St. Louis that’s found immune […]
Accidental vaccines against dementia
BBC Science Focus shares an unintended consequence that’s good for us — a vaccine against shingles that has a measurable effect protecting people against dementia […]
Science Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least now we say it […]
Strange space object: not a planet, orbiting not a star.
Mashable reported recently on a mysterious thing in space — a body we don’t yet have a name for. The category-defying object in CD-35 2722 […]
Sweat against influenza
PNAS has a study on a chemical found naturally in sweat that, it turns out, helps protect against viral infection and the symptoms of flu: […]
Roman telescope heads for deep space.
NASA reports on the successful launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now bound on a journey to a LaGrange point — a spot […]
Science Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances and details : employed in the design […]