Click to embiggen An ancient Roman central heating system – hot water would be flooded through the basement, and the floors would warm up. “Hypocaust” […]
MIT News has the (low-pitched) buzz on how listening to 40 Hz sounds have cured mice of Alzheimer’s symptoms by changing their brainwaves: This noninvasive […]
Nature reports on a new agricultural practice that has some weird ramifications for humans – a genetics process for making one male create sperm cells […]
Science Daily shouts about a Washington State University team that headed out to the geysers and hot springs of Yellowstone to cultivate a relationship with […]
Here, an astronomical family is building a 36-inch refractor telescope known as the Great Lick Refractor in the 1880s. It’s named for James Lick, an […]
Inhabitat talks up a pretty cool design project that’s taking shape off Copenhagen, where the government has announced plans to build Holmene, a complex of […]
Science News reports on the historic find of skin-art tools from the American West … a discovery made by looking through some excavated artifacts that […]
Click to embiggen A bird in its home (grown on a vine, fashioned by humans). Cute little guy, too. I found this on the Scientific […]
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 […]
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 […]
This image is from the British Library archive, a book called The Cruise of the Marchesa … With maps and … woodcuts drawn by J. […]
SONG: “My Batteries”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Jacob Margolis’ Twitter feed, 13 Feb 2019, 3:30 AM “The last message they received…,” as used in the post […]
Not the kind on a self-sufficient satellite, but, as Nature tells us, the kind used to beam clean solar power back to Earth: The idea […]
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 […]
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, […]
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