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 […]
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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 […]
Stress disconnects our memories.
Nature finds that a single stressful event — like a job interview, a thesis defense, or a car accident — affects our brains in a […]
Seed oils are better than beef, actually.
STAT shared the words of a frustrated cardiac dietitian who is personally exhausted by the public panic over seed oils, which, depending on how you […]
Science Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is actually a detail from the full […]
SONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack of Social Connection May Have Played A Big Role […]
A new (easier) way to detect alien life.
Mashable reports on astrobiology research that may have found a simpler (and, importantly, more portable) way to detect traces of life on alien planets … […]
Science Art: Fowler – Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.” But this isn’t the eye. It’s the alimentary canal, […]