Science Art: Cormorant, by Bob Hines.
These are cormorants – the birds that swim underwater to catch fish. I fell in love with cormorants reading Ping as a little boy (on […]
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Science Art: “A Pigeon Fancier’s Manual,” by Ruth Padel.
I found this poem among three books of scientific poetry reviewed in Science Magazine, 2 October 2009. It’s from Darwin: A Life in Poems by […]
Ancient Amazonian society revealed.
National Geographic really does specialize in that whole lost jungle city thing, doesn’t it? And it’s so nice when they actually deliver faint traces of […]
Planet Styrofoam.
You’ve probably, by now, heard about the latest crop of distant planets discovered by the Kepler telescope. But have you read, in New Scientist or […]
Runners: Put the shoes down.
Science Daily throws fitness fans off their stride with a study that suggests running shoes will mess up your legs: In a study published in […]
Put the prescriptions down.
A new story on the AP wire backs up one of my hobby-horse beliefs. People are using way too many antibiotics, and it’s killing us: […]
On the tip of my tongue….
DiscoveryNews says what I was just thinking. I mean, they’ve got a machine that can do that: The first “words” detected from the subject’s brain […]
Da Vinci Studies of Fetuses, photo by Luc Viatour.
Click to embiggen. These are notes and pen-over-chalk sketches of a 4-month-old fetus (and the structure of the placenta) as seen by Leonardo da Vinci. […]
We don’t need more science education.
We need more science jobs. Over at ScienceBlogs, they crunch the numbers: Like many other things in life, you get what you pay for (if […]
Batteries for solar homes.
Over at VentureBeat’s “GreenBeat” section, they’ve got a profile of a promising new Panasonic project, building batteries powerful enough to run your average suburban home […]
One tool, two brain functions.
PhysOrg reveals a new discovery (using old tools) of a single brain protein that does two very different things to help us think: Details of […]
Born in Black Holes
The World of Weird Things blog has a pretty cool look at the part played by big black holes in the origins of the universe: […]
Cosmic songs.
Science Line doesn’t care if you’re not supposed to be able to hear spaceship engines go “whooosh” – they say we’re actually being quietly bombarded […]
Science Art: Human Skull, Plate V by William Miller.
William Miller was an engraver and illustrator in the 1800s, known familiarly as “the Scotch Quaker.” He created wonderfully detailed plates of, well, nearly anything […]
Monkey and Robot go to Mars.
PopSci says the Russians are floating the idea of sending a monkey and robot to Mars. For real: Russia’s Cosmonautics Academy is in preliminary talks […]