Science Art: Pénaud’s first sketch of an amphibian aeroplane, 1873
CW: Ends in despair. French aviation pioneer Alphonse Pénaud designed this, with engineer Paul Gauchot, as an aeroplane that could land on water or on […]
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Pluto might have an underground ocean, if those icy volcanoes are any indication.
Science magazine reports on new conclusions from the New Horizon spacecraft’s 2015 observations of ice volcanoes on Pluto, and what they could mean for the […]
There’s more than one speed of sound on Mars.
Science News describes one of the odd issues facing our robotic exploration of the Red Planet, because sound waves travel differently in the thin atmosphere […]
Want your research cited by other scientists? Give your paper a funny title.
Nature reveals one of the weird truths about the way we do science. Publishing research is sometimes referred to as “the academic conversation,” and analysis […]
Science Art: Irisosaurus yimenensis life restoration, by Ang Li.
Irisosaurus yimenensis is a dinosaur discovered in 2020 in Yunnan, China, within the Fengjiahe Formation – a layer of sediment and fossils laid down in […]
There’s radioactive material *everywhere*. Here’s who’s trying to clean up clinics and food processing plants..
Scientific American introduces us to the RadSecure program, which aims to keep the radioactive isotopes in use all around us from getting too close for […]
A 3,000-year-old skull surgery in Alabama
Science News checks out the evidence for the oldest known skull surgery in America, a forehead-opening operation that took place between 3,000 and 5,000 years […]
FedEx is testing a drone with a 27-foot wingspan for “middle mile” delivery.
Popular Science explains the 9.000-pound flying robots made by the drone company Elroy Air aren’t meant to get your packages to your door. They’re just […]
Science Art: Culpeper’s Microscope, 1797.
This is a single microscope from a page of microscopes in the 1797 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which I found on archive.org. This particular […]
Spotting the farthest star: Earendel.
Science Daily shares news from NASA/Goddard that Hubble, the space telescope supposedly surpassed by the new Webb telescope, has now identified the farthest star (and […]
Rural people have a better sense of direction.
Lancaster University researchers have studied folks who grew up in the country, in the suburbs, and in the city by analyzing their movements in a […]
Science Art: CSIRO’s ASKAP telescope continues to detect new FRBs…, 2020
This is an image of a thing that happens that is both very fast and also invisible. The colorful blocks are representations of “fast radio […]
SONG: Lost Aromas (A Rose)
SONG: “Lost Aromas (A Rose)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Discover 25 Jan 2022, “Smells Are Going Extinct, So Researchers Are Working to Preserve Them,” as used […]
Big Dog is being outrun – by an emu-inspired BirdBot
Science reports on a Human Frontier Science Program project that is creating a more stable, more self-controlled walking robot by basing its motion on emus […]
Science Art: Lysiopetalum Cavernarum, Etc., Emerton & Packard, del., 1888.
This is a collection of bits and pieces (including “male genital armature” in 1s and 1t) of Pseudotremia cavernarum, the cave millipede. Yes, the researchers […]