Big picture, small crab.
They crawl around the sea in Japan, Australia, Borneo and the Horn of Africa.
This one was drawn in the 1880s (like one of those French girls) aboard… Read the rest “Science Art: Hyastenus convexus, from Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert’ 1881-2.”
Nature reports on the Gaia space telescope’s new map that will pinpoint more than a billion objects by the time it’s done:
… Read the rest “That’s a big map.”Gaia, a space telescope launched by the European Space
Daily Sabah reports on the history-making implications of a very old, quite intact figurine found at a dig in Çatalhöyük:
… Read the rest “Old, oooold lady figurine found (whole!) in Neolithic city.”The statuette, measuring 17 centimeters (6.7 inches) long and
The Washington Post puzzles over a case of Zika in Utah that points to a new way for the virus to transmit itself:
… Read the rest “A new way to catch Zika.”Until now, scientists have said that Zika is spread primarily through the bite
In 1960, we started planning to send rockets to Mars… and Philip Bono, a Boeing engineer and designer, started figuring out how they’d work, and how they’d look while… Read the rest “Science Art: Orbital Balloon Repair (?), by Philip Bono”
Or at least sex them. Yes, so, if you’re not up on your poultry husbandry, sexing chickens is a big thing – an enormous thing. Girl chickens grow up to lay eggs. Boy chickens –… Read the rest “Now you can count them before they’re hatched.”
Umeå University has more on their molecular biology professor, Stefan Jansson, who sat down to eat a CRISPR-modified pasta-and-veggie dinner to show off the technology’s potential… Read the rest “Researcher tucks into a CRISPR meal.”
Science Daily reports on the hitherto-unknown genus of germs dubbed “Frackibacter,” after its disrupted shale-oil habitat:
… Read the rest “Fracking reveals new genus of bacteria.”The new genus is one of the 31 microbial members
This is an image from this NASA eBook on high-flying fashions:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Dressing for Altitude, NASA.”Although space suits, which differ from pressure suits in subtle, but important ways, have been well covered
Nature introduces a little guy who’s upending the way we think about the age of dinosaurs… a time when pterosaurs ruled the skies with 10-meter wingspans. Well, except there… Read the rest “Ptiny Pterosaurs”
Live Science takes a long look at an Egyptian mummy whose face has been reconstructed using 3D printing to turn back time:
… Read the rest “Mummy’s got a new face, thanks to 3D printing”The mummified head was discovered by accident in the collections
Ars Technica has a cautiously not-quite-freaked-out-yet look at what radio astronomers think might well be evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization:
… Read the rest “A “strong signal” has SETI excited.”According to Paul Glister,
This is how parents in the 50s were expected to conceptualize their bright, nonconformist children – as happy, well-groomed chemists.
Then the 60s happened.
From a helpful, U.S.… Read the rest “Science Art: Your Gifted Child frontispiece, 1958”
Howdy, neighbor! Nature sets our sights on the planet just like ours orbiting Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor:
… Read the rest “There’s an Earth-like planet right next door.”Proxima Centauri, the star closest to the Sun, has an Earth-sized
SONG: “Turn Me Back”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “CRISPR’s hopeful monsters: gene-editing storms evo-devo labs,” Nature, 17 Aug 2016, as used in the post… Read the rest “SONG: Turn Me Back”
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