Science Art: 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel, 1990
Click to embiggen This might look like a jet plane’s engine, but it’s really a thing to test jet planes – supersonic ones. It’s a […]
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GMO mosquitoes will fly. Probably.
Just a short note (from a Fusion story), but one kind of overlooked story from election day is that the Florida Keys approved releasing genetically […]
So ISIS is using homemade drones. Here’s how they work.
Popular Science looks at the the backyard engineering that goes into an effective homemade military drone: To better understand ISIS drones, I spoke with an […]
Science Art: Schéma de montage d’un turbopropulseur by Nerijp
This is a turbine – a “turbopropulseur” – used as an example of a “réducteur” – a reducing gear. The one end spins a lot […]
World Power: How Africa can leapfrog the world with renewable energy.
Nature looks into the future of Africa and sees a sunny outlook – at least as far as solar and wind power generation go: Africa’s […]
Caveman jewelry: Ostrich eggs in Siberia?
Siberian Times looks at the things that people thought were precious before people were Homo sapiens – a trove of Denisovan jewelry made from such […]
Florida Keys voting on genetically-modified mosquito plan.
FiveThirtyEight Science has an in-depth article on a genetic reponse to the Zika threat and the scientific stakes of ballots cast in Florida’s southernmost county: […]
Science Art: Trilobites (Sketch Pad), by Manchestersciart
Click to embiggen Prehistoric life, today’s exercises. From Life in Retrograde, via ScientificIllustration.tumblr.com.
“This misshapen pebble is actually the first ever dinosaur brain fossil ever found.”
Vox takes a close look at a fossilized iguanodon brain: On a dark winter night in 2004, Jamie Hiscocks spotted an odd-shaped stone on a […]
Zika is an American disease now.
NPR reports that the mosquito-borne illness is probably here to stay: So far, local officials in Miami have successfully cleared just one zone of local […]
A robot truck just drove beer between cities.
The Verge reports on Uber’s first real-live self-driving truck shipment, hauling Budweiser from Loveland, Colorado, to Colorado Springs: The truck — a Volvo big rig […]
Heading a soccer ball changes your brain – pretty much immediately.
I don’t know if this counts as surprising or not, but Science Daily details the changes your brain goes through after something as “mild” as […]
No song today.
Writing an obituary. Working on a science fair project. Neither thing is easy. Also, Linux is twisting and turning on me. I can get audio […]
Saturn’s “Great Hexagon” changes color with the seasons
NASA has published some images of Saturn’s geometrically fascinating north pole that show a new seasonal color scheme: …Scientists are investigating potential causes for the […]
Virus pirates black widow venom, uses it as weapon
New Scientist reports on some information-age piracy taking place in the microscopic realm, where viruses seem to have hijacked spider venom to attack bacteria: Viruses […]