Palm-sized glass can store 2 million books’ worth of data
PhysOrg looks through a Microsoft Research Labs breakthrough called Silica that can use pulses of laser light to inscribe ordinary glass blocks so that they’ll […]
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Life that can survive a full-on asteroid impact.
Mashable discusses the discovery at Johns Hopkins of microbes that are hardy enough to have traveled across the vacuum of space and then survived the […]
Science Art: Stand-Pipe, Boston, 1882
A hydrological edifice. As explained in A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering: relating to the hydrology, hydrodynamics, and practical construction of water works, […]
Our brains run on 20 watts of power.
Are we bright, or really kinda dim? IFL Science reports that the human brain uses about as much electricity as the average computer monitor: Considered […]
Fire-nadoes to clean the ocean
BBC’s Science Focus imagines a brighter future … brighter from the blazing fire-tornadoes used to clean plastics and oil from our over-polluted oceans: Taking inspiration […]
Science Art: Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism)…, 1915.
The full caption of this figure reads “Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism) of branches of coronary arteries in a case of anomalous origin of the left […]
A new explanation for the missing billion years in Earth’s geologic record.
IFL Science has a new explanation of “The Great Unconformity,” a worldwide phenomenon in which about a billion years of rock deposits are just missing, […]
School bus-sized spinosaur discovered
Last month, BBC’s Science Focus reported on an “astonishingly” large dinosaur discovered in the Sahara Desert of Niger — a bus-sized behemoth with a crescent-shaped […]
Science Art: Modern Electrical Construction, Fig. 58, 1905
This is a switch for “constant current” electricity to go into a building, a “A modern commercial form of this switch,” is what the book […]
Better long-term memory … for females, at least.
Nature reports on research that gave mice acetate, a common byproduct of digesting alcohol, glucose, or fiber… and found that it improved long-term memory — […]
No song today.
I have the bones of a song, but no proper lyrics. I owe you a song, and a penitential cover. Mea maxima culpa.
Science Art: Eye orbit anatomy anterior 2, by Patrick Lynch.
Unblinking, the lidless eye gazes out from its skull, unseeing. I found this anatomical image while browsing through the “Featured Images” collection on Wikimedia Commons. […]
Honey bees navigate VERY precisely.
PhysOrg considers the flight paths of honeybees in three dimensions and finds that the insects are even more precise than anyone imagined: A team from […]
A drill older than the pharoahs
PhysOrg reports on a very old tool – does it count as a power tool? At any rate, it was made in Egypt thousands of […]
Science Art: Kentrosaurus aethiopicus, by H. Zell.
This is an image from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, a German natural history museum, where they have a skeleton of a stegosaurus relative unearthed […]