First new cat species IDed in a century.
NBC News reports on Bolivia’s tilcayo tiger cat, a creature that looks like a cheetah or an ocelot but is smaller than a domestic cat […]
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Science Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes. As the caption from Popular Electronics says (found here, on archive.org): A fossil particle was […]
Boat-wrecking orcas might only be playing.
Science looks at the much-publicized rash of attacks on yachts and other oceangoing vessels by killer whales and finds the whales don’t really seem to […]
Immune cells from the neck cause Alzheimer’s in the brain
In a strange reflection of the last post here, Science has a report on a study at Washington University in St. Louis that’s found immune […]
Accidental vaccines against dementia
BBC Science Focus shares an unintended consequence that’s good for us — a vaccine against shingles that has a measurable effect protecting people against dementia […]
Science Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least now we say it […]
Strange space object: not a planet, orbiting not a star.
Mashable reported recently on a mysterious thing in space — a body we don’t yet have a name for. The category-defying object in CD-35 2722 […]
Sweat against influenza
PNAS has a study on a chemical found naturally in sweat that, it turns out, helps protect against viral infection and the symptoms of flu: […]
Roman telescope heads for deep space.
NASA reports on the successful launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now bound on a journey to a LaGrange point — a spot […]
Science Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances and details : employed in the design […]
Sturgeons alive today from before Columbus sailed.
Wisconsin Public Radio reports that sturgeons have been discovered to live much longer than previously thought, with some individual fish surviving more than 400 years: […]
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty as a northern elephant seal. They […]
Broken medieval skeleton first confirmed death by trebuchet
Science reports on a 14th-century skeleton found in a Scottish castle that looked like it had been hit by a bus … but, archaeologists determined, […]
Science Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found on archive.org) that also bore […]
Prehistoric toad discovered in Los Angeles
Scienmag reports on a new discovery in one of the world’s most famous (and most urban) fossil sites — an Ice Age toad species found […]