A bird in its home (grown on a vine, fashioned by humans).
Cute little guy, too.
I found this on the Scientific Illustration tumblr, which got it from the Cincinnati Public… Read the rest “Science Art: Progne purpurea. Purple martin, by Howard Jones, 1886”
Nature has some, uh, heady science in the form of brewer’s yeast genetically modified to produce chemicals usually found in marijuana – the healthy ones *and* the fun ones… Read the rest ““Hacked” yeast used to brew THC and other cannabis compounds.”
Science Daily passes the word from Wake Forest about medical engineers who’ve come up with a functional bioprinter that can replace real skin layer by layer by the patient’s… Read the rest “We’ve got a bedside bioprinter to replace your injured skin directly on you.”
This image is from the British Library archive, a book called The Cruise of the Marchesa … With maps and … woodcuts drawn by J. Keulemans, C. Whymper and others. by Francis H. … Read the rest “Science Art: Korowaar, page 488 of The Cruise of The Marchesa, 1889.”
SONG: “My Batteries”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Jacob Margolis’ Twitter feed, 13 Feb 2019, 3:30 AM “The last message they received…,” as used in … Read the rest “SONG: My Batteries”
Not the kind on a self-sufficient satellite, but, as Nature tells us, the kind used to beam clean solar power back to Earth:
… Read the rest “China says they’re ready to put solar panels in orbit.”The idea of space-based solar power stations has been around for
National Geographic has details that are bound to give arachnophobes THE WILLIES, but for the rest of us, there’s this rather large spider in Angola that’s new to science, … Read the rest “We’ve discovered a tarantula with a horn on its back.”
A close-up of the tiny ear-bones of a few kinds of animals, including human beings.
This is a detail of a page from Musurgia Universalis, which was the book of the month at the Glasgow University… Read the rest “Science Art: Ossicula Organi Auditus Diversorium Animalium (Aural-Organ Bones of Diverse Animals), by Athanasius Kircher”
The rover was sent on a 90-day mission. It kept operating on Mars for 15 years, 28 miles and 5,000 charge cycles. Today, NASA said goodbye.
This Twitter thread from NASA Solar System is probably… Read the rest “A moment of silence for Opportunity.”
The Guardian demonstrates mathematical skills in creatures that don’t even have internal skeletons, with Australian research that shows bees handling some rather sophisticated… Read the rest “Mathematical bees. The insect, not the competition. They know their numbers!”
This is a copepod, a critter related to the Spongebob character Plankton. It’s from a book called Histoire des monocles that came out in 1820. The scientist who wrote it, Louis Jurine,… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 2. Monoculus quadricornis fuscus, a copepod female by Mlle. Christine Jurine”
Nature reports on a lifesaving use for diet drugs:
… Read the rest “Diet drugs can prevent malaria and encephalitis – by making mosquitos less hungry.”Female Aedes aegypti, like other mosquito species, feed on blood to get the protein they need to produce their eggs, and spread diseases
This story has been doing the rounds lately, but the research is available via Science Direct (publishing the Quaternary Science Reviews article). A team of University College of London… Read the rest “The Little Ice Age happened in part because of Europe reaching the New World.”
LiveScience digs deep for a prehistoric prize, finding dietary clues about Smok wawelski – a peak predator who, thankfully, left modern scientists poop full of bones:
… Read the rest “Prehistoric dragon ate bones with its meat. And its own teeth.”In a new study
A chart of the sky, showing how Ancient Romans measured time in the year 8 CE – meaning, what hora it was when the sun was at a specific point in the sky at the equinoxes… Read the rest “Science Art: Ancient Roman time keeping, sun path hora by Darekk2”
Copyright © 2026 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes
Click to embiggen