Eating sea otters is giving wolves mercury poisoning.
Mongabay reports on a survey of data going back 25 years that show Alaskan coastal wolves have changed their diet from deer to sea otters […]
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Science Art: Detail from Tinsley Laboratories ad, 1966.
That’s a closeup of the Surveyor-1 satellite printed above an image of the Gemini orbital capsule, with the words “WE GAVE” (image of Surveyor-1) “a […]
Honda has entered Space Race 2.0
The Verge reports on a new competitor to Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic in the reusable rocket game – one with a slightly longer […]
Gigantic, ghostly crustaceans could live over half the ocean floor.
New Scientist plumbs the depths in search of foot-long white shrimp-like creatures that might be one of the most populous creatures on the bottom of […]
China’s undersea station.
Someone in China hasn’t watched Kristen Stewart in UNDERWATER… or so Sustainability Times leads me to believe. They’re reporting (rather breathlessly) on a “deep-sea space […]
Science Art: Harpagolestes immanis, by Ryan Somma.
This is a picture of a mesonychid, a family of prehistoric creatures known as “wolves with hooves.” I got the idea to post this from […]
Science Art: Transit of Venus in 2012.
This is Venus, moving in front of the Sun. Technically, I suppose it’s a lot of Venuses, or a chain of a lot of pictures […]
Wild cockatoos use public water fountains
Smithsonian shares some unusual observations from Australia, where wild cockatoos have learned to operate the controls of water fountains in public parks to get a […]
Ancient megafarm found in Michigan.
PhysOrg reports on an archaeological discovery in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, which seems to have been the site of a 1,000-year-old Native American farming complex more […]
The temple as refuge … for endangered species.
Nature reports on a study from China that found thousands of endangered trees growing on the grounds of religious monuments across the country: It is […]
Science Art: Pterophorus pentadactyla MHNT, by Didier Descouens
This is an image of a white plume moth, a photograph taken of a specimen in the Muséum de Toulouse in August of 2011. The […]
Science Art: Turbines and Pumps, Manchester, 1882.
This is a waterwork as the Industrial Revolution hit full swing. It’s the final image in a book I’ve used here before, A practical treatise […]
SONG: Hyperfocus
SONG: “Hyperfocus”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Something in The Back of Your Eye Could Reveal Whether You Have ADHD,” Science Alert, […]
ADHD diagnosed by looking deeply into your eyes.
Science Alert carries news of a Korean research project that used AI to study images of the fundus, an area of the back of the […]
Painkiller outsmarts opioids.
Science Daily reports on Duke researchers who have created a new class of painkiller that experiments show is as effective as opioids at eliminating pain […]