Science Art: Soaking Up the Rays of a Sun-Like Star, by NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle, 2015.
Click to embiggen This is an artist’s impression of a planet just discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission that’s gotten the folks at SETI all excited. […]
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SONG: “Kavachi”
SONG: “Kavachi”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “Deep-Sea Cameras Reveal a ‘Sharkcano’”, National Geographic Explorers’ Journal, 9 July 2015, as used in the post as used […]
First contact for health’s sake.
Peruvian officials have, Science Daily reports, made like technologically advanced aliens and had first contact with a very isolated tribe: Peru’s Ministry of Culture begins […]
Science Art: New Horizons (Tribute), NPR/NASA/Bradbury
From NPR’s Skunk Bear: Words by Ray Bradbury. Images by NASA.
Earworms (hopelessly catchy tunes) get stuck in certain brain shapes.
New Scientist reveals the anatomy of the earworm: The study is the first to look at the neural basis for “involuntary musical imagery” – or […]
Archaeologists unearth magic Viking sword.
Science Daily has a for-real scientific report with an abstract that begins “Have you held the sword? Have you felt its weight?”: Have you felt […]
World’s oldest sperm found inside fossilized worm.
It’s the sperm of perspective, is what it is. Nature is showing off the very seed of history – the oldest animal sperm ever discovered: […]
Sorry, no science news today. Busy WATCHING A SPACE SHIP FLY PAST PLUTO.
You can too, over here: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/, or here: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/. Remember, Pluto’s 4.5 light-hours away. You dial their number, it takes most of the day for […]
The Big One is coming. Sorry, Seattle. And Portland.
The New Yorker paints a pretty vivid seismic picture of the quake that some scientists say is due to rip the Pacific Northwest in two: […]
Science Art: Fig. 3, The Pocket Cephalometer, or Compass of Coordinates, by Dr. Gustave Le Bon, c.1878.
This is a demonstration of an instrument used to measure “cephalic index,” or how big a person’s head was. This was, at this point in […]
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 […]
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 […]