Science Art: Chain Saw, US 1655856 A, Jan. 10, 1928.
Click to embiggen A patent for a device putting wood-cutting blades on a chain, so that people can cut down trees – or, in the […]
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Where the oceans are rising.
Nature gives us a much closer look not just at how much the ocean is rising, but where the levels will be changing most, using […]
How Dan Rather taught us how to see hurricanes.
This isn’t new research, but a look back at some technological history most of us might not know. The Atlantic reminds us how a young […]
Dogs know themselves (as if we didn’t know that already). By their noses.
Science Daily reports on Barnard College and Tomsk State University researchers who have looked at dogs looking at (and sniffing) themselves and found that, yep, […]
Science Art: The Triumph Lathe, from The Watchmaker & Jeweller, Silversmith & Optician, Nov. 1, 1887.
Click to embiggen It spins, you know. This jewelry-making tool was once available from Messrs. H.J. Cooper & Company, on Oxford Street West. I found […]
Dinosaur had four wings, yet could not fly.
National Geographic reveals the real-life parable of a dinosaur that, according to the evidence, had four wings, yet never flew: The newly named species, Serikornis […]
Tiny antennas make brain implants a little more possible.
Nature explores the possibilities of, in not so many words, putting electronic receivers in our brains: Metal antennas that send and receive TV signals and […]
FDA labels Ecstasy a “breakthrough therapy,” accelerates testing.
Science magazine celebrates the fast-tracking of studies on MDMA, the once-notorious rave drug that’s now on the verge of being approved to tread PTSD and […]
Civil War submarine mystery solved
Nature reports on researchers who have determined that the Confederate Navy’s Hunley – the first submarine to sink an enemy warship – probably sank itself […]
Science Art: Engine, by ESA
Click to embiggen The European Space Agency has a way with names. This is in their image library as “Engine.” The description offers little more […]
SONG: Frozen Atmospheres
SONG: “Frozen Atmospheres”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Record-shattering 2.7-million-year-old ice core reveals start of the ice ages,” Science, 15 Aug 2017, as used in the post “2.7 […]
NASA’s got a plan to save us from supervolcanoes – by using them for power.
BBC has more on the planet-spanning threat of supervolcanoes – like the one under Yellowstone that’s about due for a continent-shaking eruption – and their […]
Science Art: Sea Lamprey Larvae in Hand 2, by R. McDaniels, Great Lakes Fishery Commission.
Click to embiggen Fans of Roderick on the Line may recognize these as living metaphors for modern marketing offers. But they’re invading the Great Lakes […]
They drank bad water in Pompeii.
EurekAlert has research from the University of Southern Denmark on just how doomed Pompeii really was. Not only was that volcano about to engulf the […]
2.7 million-year-old ice shatters records, reveals ancient atmospheres – and ice ages.
(Plural intended.) Science magazine looks back at lots of tiny, tiny pockets of the distant past – with a deep ice core that contains samples […]