Antarctic ice-loss: a 25-year-long look from space.
BBC has, courtesy of the Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), a quarter-century of satellite images of Antarctica showing how the ice is shrinking, […]
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Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962
Click to embiggen Astronaut and astronaut nurse, getting ready to stick another metaphorical toe into the metaphorical water of the eternal icy void of space, […]
70-mile-long, 300-foot-wide crack opens in Antarctica.
Not that anything’s trying to get out. No, Live Science wouldn’t want us to panic needlessly over a gigantic crevice yawning wide across shrinking ice-fields […]
America’s oldest mummy is coming home – to Nevada.
Nature salutes the gene-sequencing of the 10,600-year-old Spirit Cave Man – and his return to what we now know are his descendants, the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone […]
Bits of your brain are falling asleep and waking up right now.
Science Daily looks at the neurons that rev up and those that spin down when different parts of your brain are used – a trick […]
Science Art: The Sun, December 4, 2016, Wavelengths 304-211-171
Click to embiggen Look up just right, and this is what you’ll see. From the “Sun In Time” page of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Atmospheric […]
Discarded computers could bring Israelis and Palestinians together
Nature seems awfully optimistic about a program for recycling and processing “e-waste” in the Holy Land: Electronics are dismantled in nearby villages as part of […]
Wildfires “Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen”
Scientific American is looking at what exactly the Tennessee wildfires might mean for our changing planet: A prolonged drought that has engulfed much of the […]
These germs join carbon to silicon.
Nature reports on a critter in Iceland’s hot springs that binds silicon to carbon – which could lead to all sorts of weird breakthroughs: Researchers […]
Science Art: Oral Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses – Coronal View exhibit, from Our Body: The Universe Within
Click to embiggen Someone went to the museum today. This has always been one of my favorite bits of human anatomy, the spirals inside our […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: “Blue Monday” by Orkestra Obsolete (New Order cover)
This cover came out in March this year, celebrating the anniversary of New Order’s 1983 hit. The idea was to remake the groundbreaking electronic song […]
SONG: Blood is Family
SONG: “Blood is Family”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Small Island, Big Experiment,” FiveThirtyEight Science, Oct 2016, as used in the post “Florida Keys voting on genetically-modified […]
Chernobyl goes solar.
Popular Mechanics celebrates a plan to turn the nuclear disaster zone into a 1-gigawatt solar farm: The high levels of radiation make the zone unsuitable […]
Jordan’s Black Desert was once bustling with life
Live Science looks over thousands of inscriptions from 2,000 years ago, opening a window to a time when this arid, sandy landscape was once filled […]
Science Art: “Various Forms of Trachelomonas” (detail of “INFUSORIA”), 1883
Aren’t they the cutest little things? These are kinds of Euglena, the weird little microscopic critters that are animals with plant-like characteristics – some of […]