Welcome, giant coconut rat. Nice to meet you!
National Geographic (after Nature) introduces us to a brand new mammal species – or new to us, anyway – that tumbled out of a tree […]
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Science Art: Diagrammatic Figures of Cirroteuthis magna, drawn to a scale of about one-twentieth, 1886
Click to embiggen Octopus geometry, from Report on the Cephalopoda collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873-76, by William Hoyle.
It’s a comet. It’s an asteroid. It’s twins. It’s… weird.
Science Daily struggles to define a strange thing the Hubble telescope found between Jupiter and Mars: With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, […]
The social life of octopuses.
Quark goes deep to plumb the mysteries of the cephalopod city scientists have dubbed “Octlantis”: In Jervis Bay, off Eastern Australia, researchers recently spotted 15 […]
The poop economy is flourishing.
Nature gets to the fundamentals of the filthy lucre we’re finding in filth: The facility is called Pivot, and its founder is Ashley Muspratt, a […]
Science Art: Chain Saw, US 1655856 A, Jan. 10, 1928.
Click to embiggen A patent for a device putting wood-cutting blades on a chain, so that people can cut down trees – or, in the […]
Where the oceans are rising.
Nature gives us a much closer look not just at how much the ocean is rising, but where the levels will be changing most, using […]
How Dan Rather taught us how to see hurricanes.
This isn’t new research, but a look back at some technological history most of us might not know. The Atlantic reminds us how a young […]
Dogs know themselves (as if we didn’t know that already). By their noses.
Science Daily reports on Barnard College and Tomsk State University researchers who have looked at dogs looking at (and sniffing) themselves and found that, yep, […]
Science Art: The Triumph Lathe, from The Watchmaker & Jeweller, Silversmith & Optician, Nov. 1, 1887.
Click to embiggen It spins, you know. This jewelry-making tool was once available from Messrs. H.J. Cooper & Company, on Oxford Street West. I found […]
Dinosaur had four wings, yet could not fly.
National Geographic reveals the real-life parable of a dinosaur that, according to the evidence, had four wings, yet never flew: The newly named species, Serikornis […]
Tiny antennas make brain implants a little more possible.
Nature explores the possibilities of, in not so many words, putting electronic receivers in our brains: Metal antennas that send and receive TV signals and […]
FDA labels Ecstasy a “breakthrough therapy,” accelerates testing.
Science magazine celebrates the fast-tracking of studies on MDMA, the once-notorious rave drug that’s now on the verge of being approved to tread PTSD and […]
Civil War submarine mystery solved
Nature reports on researchers who have determined that the Confederate Navy’s Hunley – the first submarine to sink an enemy warship – probably sank itself […]
Science Art: Engine, by ESA
Click to embiggen The European Space Agency has a way with names. This is in their image library as “Engine.” The description offers little more […]