Science Art: Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov, Voskhod 1, 4-kopek stamp, 1964
Click to embiggen This is Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (or call-sign “Ruby”), the first man to die in space. He’d been denied admission to the space […]
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Our noses were shaped by the climate.
Science Daily sniffs out how weather patterns affect the shape of our family’s noses: “We are interested in recent human evolution and what explains the […]
Sharks are teaming up to outwit us.
PhysOrg reports on the discovery that sharks aren’t quite the “lone wolves of the sea” that they seem. In fact, sharks form social networks and […]
Volunteers are healthier. (They also tend to be richer.)
Science Daily finds that those who give back also seem to be getting back – because people who volunteer for causes are in better health […]
Science Art: Longitudinal Section of “Star” Class Four-Cylinder 4-6-0, by AJ Creswell, 1963.
Click to embiggen A train! A big ol’ train! This image is one of many found in H.A.V. Bulleid’s Master Builders of Steam, a book […]
Our brains are 10 times busier than we thought.
Science Daily takes time out to think about our thinking parts, which are doing 10 times more thinking than we previously thought: The research focused […]
“It’s still fricking weird”: Physicist on the creation of time crystals.
Nature describes how “dirty diamonds” (and other delights) can be used to make crystals that “pulse” without using any energy: The name sounds like a […]
Chess, go… and now, a computer has beaten humans at POKER.
Scientific American prepares us for our cybernetic overlords with a machine that knows when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em… how to call […]
We might have found some more archaic Denisovan people in China.
Science looks at skulls from Eastern China that appear to be the remains of the little-known Denisovan prehistoric people: Since their discovery in 2010, the […]
Science Art: Saturated Hydro-Carbon, by B.E. Pike, 1947
From The Wonderland of Science. A children’s book. From 1947. This is what little kids were reading then. Not that our culture is in decline […]
Looking inside our galaxy’s biggest black hole
Science reports on the telescope that hopes to see the event horizon of the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way: Next […]
American sharks are recovering (in the Atlantic, at least).
Eurekalert has good news from the southeastern Atlantic. Shark populations are getting back to where they should be for a healthy ocean: Scientists estimate that […]
Is this one, long neuron where consciousness comes from?
Nature reports on the discovery of a single, brain-encircling “crown of thorns” neuron that might be the seat of consciousness: Christof Koch, president of the […]
Science Art: Dinner in the Mould of the Iguanodon, by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1854.
A paleontological dinner party, as drawn by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, the sculptor who also made the dining accommodations – an Iguanodon. Nowadays, we know (or […]
SONG: Glassy Carbon Rods
SONG: “Glassy Carbon Rods.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Big improvement to brain-computer interface,” Science Daily, 17 Feb 2017, as used in the post “Brain-electronics just got better.” […]