On a fiberglass sailboat, “fairing” is a thin coat of epoxy meant to smooth out all tiny bumps and creases that sanding can’t catch in order to make the hull move through… Read the rest “Science Art: MRO Fairing Installation, 2005.”
A photo from the NASA PACE Ocean Sciences gallery.
The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission is a satellite observatory created by Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) which… Read the rest “Science Art: Iceland’s Coast Shows Hints of Spring, March 2024”
Science Alert reports on an evolutionary study that has found our butts (from which everybody, as the children’s book tells us, poops) were originally a little bit more risque. The… Read the rest “Our butts used to be sperm dispensers.”
SONG: “Titanium Heart”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days — a world first,” Nature, 13 March… Read the rest “SONG: Titanium Heart”
BBC reports on an odd optical experiment that resulted in human eyes seeing an entirely new color, a kind of super-saturated aqua they’ve dubbed “olo”:
… Read the rest “A new color, named “olo.””By stimulating
Oh, hydrology.
This is a device to measure the speed of water flow, as described in A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering: relating to the hydrology, hydrodynamics,… Read the rest “Science Art: Woltmann’s Tachometer, 1882”
BBC Science Focus looks up at the heavens and sees two nearby galaxies — the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) — that, instead of peacefully spinning… Read the rest “Nearby galaxies are shredding each other.”
The European Space Agency has an unfortunate report about future satellites. They’re much closer to running out of room because, as Science Alert puts it, there’s just too… Read the rest “Too much space junk.”
These are knots. Not knots used to tie down boats or headstrong horses, but knots used to explore geometries of space.
The display was made by Estes Objethos Atelier, but the photo was taken… Read the rest “Science Art: Mathematical Knot Table 01, by Rodrigo Argenton”
For a long while, paleontologists have been trying to figure out what was up with Helmetia expansa, a prehistoric creature from before the dinosaurs that seemed like a crustacean but not.… Read the rest “A mysterious trilobite cousin deciphered.”
In science-nerd circles, people lately have been really into talking about how many times crabs evolve — that is, how many unrelated invertebrate families wind up mutating into … Read the rest “Intelligence evolved at least twice on Earth.”
This image comes from Philip Henry Gosse’s A Year at the Shore, specifically, the month of October. (The year isn’t specified, but the book was published in 1865.)
Gosse was… Read the rest “Science Art: Portuguese Man-Of-War, Tongued Sarsia, by Philip Henry Gosse”
This is a mudskipper who is being drawn here solely for the qualities of its bulbous, beautiful eyes.
The illustration is from page 453 of The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation by … Read the rest “Science Art: Periophthalmus koelreuteri, 1942.”
NPR reports on new findings for classical works of art. It’s pretty well known now that the stark white of ancient Greek marble statues was originally a lot more colorful when they … Read the rest “The smell of Venus de Milo”
And, says National Geographic, it makes them take evasive maneuvers, ready to dodge their Antarctic predators:
… Read the rest “Krill sniff penguin poop”In Antarctica’s Palmer Station lab, scientists put wild-caught krill
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