The Zebra Shark Madonna: Aquarium celebrates virgin birth
National Geographic describes an Australian aquarium’s wonderment at a shark that just gave birth despite being alone for three years: Aquarium keepers in Australia realized […]
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Science Art: (The Wyttenbach Steam Steriliser) The book of fruit bottling, 1907.
Click to embiggen Mmm. Jelly. Jam. Apple butter. This is labeled “THE WYTTENBACH STEAM STERILISER” on on Wikimedia Commons, with some garbled dimensions. But you […]
Something worked! The ozone hole is getting better.
Nature reports that our ban on CFCs might be working because the hole in the ozone layer is shrinking: It’s the beginning of the end […]
Rosetta’s last kiss.
Reuters waxes poetic with their description of ESA’s Rosetta space probe giving comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko one “final kiss” before crash landing near the silent Philae lander: […]
They’ve just about got a vaccine for Zika.
Science Daily reports on a pretty quick turnaround for a health crisis: In a paper published today in the journal Nature, a research team led […]
Making batteries from seafood leftovers.
Hakai magazine explains how we can turn crab and lobster shells into batteries, plastics and (maybe) scaffolds for growing new organs: [Mark] MacLachlan [of the […]
Science Art: Theoria Satellitum Iovis et Saturni from Atlas Coelestis by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, 1742.
A geometry of the heavens (specifically the moons of Jupiter and Saturn0, as envisioned by mathematician, astronomer, and mapmaker Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, a German who […]
Microbes that feed on electricity
Quanta Magazine introduces us to little creatures that use electricity as food: The electricity-eating microbes that the researchers were hunting for belong to a larger […]
The electric wind left Venus without water or air.
Wired has more on how Venus was left a waterless desert due to the “wind” of charged particles from the Sun: Venus is one of […]
3D printers make a methane-eating plastic… that excretes fuel.
Science Daily has more on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers who have 3D-printed a polymer that turns methane to methanol: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory […]
Science Art: Philips H7 headlamp . Mo-cover filament polycrystals, by Ivan.V.Nemtsev
This is the filament of a headlight – a halogen bulb you put in the front end of your car, one of these – as […]
Team Rainbow Power finds Denmark’s largest trove of Viking gold.
Denmark’s The Local reports on three plucky archaeologists who (apparently) have made a historic find of Viking treasure in Jutland: The three archaeologists, who call […]
Eastern cougar: Extinct, officially.
The CBC – and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – are confirming what scientists have suspected for a long time… that the Eastern cougar […]
France – *France* – will save us all from the next killer asteroid.
Oh, yes. Nature tries to downplay it, but it’s the French who have launched an unprecedented meteor-spotting network to scan the skies: By the end […]
Lasers find lost Cambodian empire
Guardian reports on multiple medieval Cambodian cities that had been forgotten – evidence of an entire lost empire just discovered via LIDAR scans: The Australian […]