Science Art: Plate C from The rotifera; or, Wheel-animalcules, both British and foreign, 1889
Click to embiggen Teeny tiny critters, hanging out in the water. They’ve got cilia in a circle, waving around their tops as if they were […]
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Your brain’s mapmaker never, ever sleeps.
Science News reports on studies that find the parts of your brain in charge of navigation never rests, even when you’re asleep: Nestled in a […]
Navajo nation might just let geneticists study them after all.
Nature has more on Navajo leaders – in charge of the second-largest Native American group in the U.S. – possibly ending 15 years of forbidding […]
Science Art: Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, by Landsat 8
Click to embiggen vastly The USGS Earth Explorer program shared these before-and-after pictures of Puerto Rico. The main difference that’s visible from the Landsat 8 […]
Battery charging got 20 times faster – by adding asphalt.
NextBigFuture bigs up the Rice University researchers who added a pinch of asphalt and graphene to their batteries to create a high-capacity power source that […]
Human-triggered earthquakes – how do we know?
Nature is following the geologists who are tracking, for the first time, the impressive number of – and factors involved in –earthquakes believed to be […]
Tropical rainforests have become carbon *producers*, not carbon sinks.
Nature, reporting on the effects of droughts and logging, reveals that the world’s jungles are now producing more CO2 than they’re socking away out of […]
Science Art: Puer Capite Elephantino…. from Gaspar Schott, 1662.
I was going to post something else here, but then I saw this on nemfrog this morning and had to share. It’s the Elephant-Headed Boy […]
GMO wheat is gluten free. (Hard choices, right?)
New Scientist reports with hope for celiac-disease sufferers on a new breed of wheat that’s genetically modified not to produce inflammation-causing gluten: Gluten is the […]
Welcome, giant coconut rat. Nice to meet you!
National Geographic (after Nature) introduces us to a brand new mammal species – or new to us, anyway – that tumbled out of a tree […]
Science Art: Diagrammatic Figures of Cirroteuthis magna, drawn to a scale of about one-twentieth, 1886
Click to embiggen Octopus geometry, from Report on the Cephalopoda collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873-76, by William Hoyle.
SONG: Around This Mystery
SONG: “Around This Mystery”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Octlantis is a just-discovered underwater city engineered by octopuses,” Quartz, 17 Sep 2017, as used in the post “The […]
It’s a comet. It’s an asteroid. It’s twins. It’s… weird.
Science Daily struggles to define a strange thing the Hubble telescope found between Jupiter and Mars: With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, […]
The social life of octopuses.
Quark goes deep to plumb the mysteries of the cephalopod city scientists have dubbed “Octlantis”: In Jervis Bay, off Eastern Australia, researchers recently spotted 15 […]
The poop economy is flourishing.
Nature gets to the fundamentals of the filthy lucre we’re finding in filth: The facility is called Pivot, and its founder is Ashley Muspratt, a […]