Live sharks discovered inside a live volcano.
National Geographic reveals an ecosystem my 10-year-old son might have dreamed up. It’s all lava, acid and sharks. Inside the cauldron of Kavachi is a […]
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There’s an all-electric big rig out on the road today….
Manufacturing.net explains how BMW put a pollution-free semi to work on the autobahn: The BMW Group began using an all-electric semi-truck to transport vehicle components […]
Genetically modified mosquitoes swarm Brazilian city.
And, New Scientist points out, they’re here to help… because they breed fast and their young die too quickly to spread dengue fever: Millions of […]
The Larkin Effect exposed: How parents pass anxiety on to their kids.
Science Daily peers deep into our brains to reveal how exactly our parents messed us all up: The study is being published this week in […]
Sorry, arachnophobes. Spiders can go *everywhere*.
Nature reveals how spiders can use webbing to sail through the air… and then land on water and keep on sailing: Morito Hayashi, a spider […]
Science Art: Scheutz mechanical calculator (Zeichnung der Difference Engine No.1 aus dem Jahr 1853), 1867.
Click to embiggen Now, after that brief, regrettable interruption in service, a tribute to the computer. This illustration is from The Elements of Natural Philosophy; […]
SONG: Vulnerable Ape Theory (Going to a Blues Show with the Young Earth Creationists)
SONG: “Vulnerable Ape Theory (Going to a Blues Show with the Young Earth Creationists)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “Vulnerability made us human: how our early […]
Science Art: Fig. XLIII. Hydromylos, sive aquaria mola, 1662.
This is a waterwheel, from a book written by architect and engineer Georg Andreas Boeckler, under the title Theatrum machinarum novum : exhibens opera molaria […]
Land planarians are invading the U.S.!
PeerJ has a study revealing how one the planet’s most invasive species has wormed its way into – of course – Florida: The land planarian […]
Memories are physical: they last as long as the nerve-cell connections that store them.
So say Stanford University neurologists, who have actually seen memories under a microscope – and watched them vanish: Now Mark Schnitzer, an associate professor of […]
Laser “tricorder” diagnoses malaria through the skin.
I couldn’t really improve on New Scientist‘s headline there. This device shines a laser through an earlobe or wrist and detects malaria parasites through light […]
No song today.
Looks like I’ll be owing a song… and a penitential cover for my tardiness. Stay tuned.
The sports car that reads your mind.
Auto Guide (and a few other places) have been looking at… well, is the step before a driverless car or the step beyond? Anyway, it’s […]
Science Art: Paper Wings, by Nicole Frost.
Click to embiggen These are paper sculptures of birds’ wings – four specific categories of birds’ wings. As explained by their creator: This is my […]
We don’t have to protect the Eastern Cougar any more. There aren’t any left.
The Guardian has more on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s official extinction verdict: The agency said on Tuesday the four-year review, which included information […]