Science Art: Solar System by Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum
In the book Mysterium Comsmographicum, Johannes Kepler started mapping out how planets worked. The idea here is that the solar system is structured according to […]
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Thanksgiving Theremin: Tigres de Verre, by Tristran Murail.
Yes, technically not a theremin, but one of its children. Bruno Perrault played the ondes Martenot and Matteo Ramon Arevalos played the piano, recorded on […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Space Vocalise by the Armenian State Chamber Orchestra, Satenik Hakobyan-Ulikhanyan soloist.
Martin Ulikhanyan composed this dreamy piece, which was recorded on 16 March 2013, conducted by Zaven Vardanyan. Ulikhanyan has a YouTube channel and a Soundcloud […]
Mega-predator turkey ancestor discovered – a dinosaur that could chomp T. rex.
Untamed Science has the skinny on Siats meekerorum, an early Cretaceous predator the size of a bus: So imagine a world where the giant Siats […]
Waterproof? *METAL* proof.
Remember the superhero fashion designer in The Incredibles? Nature unfolds the true story of a “super-material” that repels liquids so well, it resists molten metal: […]
Science Art: Topography of a Duck, by Maynard F. Reece.
From the book Waterfowl in Iowa, by Jack W. Musgrove and Mary R. Musgrove, published by the Iowa State Conservation Commission. I found this self-explanatory […]
Science Art: The Sodium D-line Observed with a Four-Prism Spectroscope by Florence Museo FirST
One of a series of videos in which white-gloved technicians from the Florence Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica (Science and Technics Foundation) operate antique scientific equipment, […]
Manned Mars mission in billionaire’s sights.
Washington Post reflects on the future of space exploration. Rather than the will of a great nation, today it takes a determined billionaire to send […]
Cavemen & modern humans… they got it on.
DNA analysis presented at the Royal Society in London shows, Nature says in the most delicate way possible, that ancient humans were getting it on […]
Dual dinosaurs don’t sell?
Reuters carries the shocking story that a pair of precious paleontological predators just didn’t excite auction bidders: Fossils of two dinosaurs locked in a death […]
Godspeed, MAVEN. Let us know what the weather’s like up there….
NASA has just taken chatting about the weather to a new level with MAVEN, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution rocket, which just launched yesterday: […]
You don’t always see what you’re seeing.
University of Arizona brain researchers are using EEG machines to detect everyday invisible objects – the things your brain sees that it’s keeping from you: […]
Science Art: Section and Elevation of Compound Oil Engine, Showing Construction.
Thus do we master the physical world. From Mechanical Engineering, a journal published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1919.
Helium-filled planes take off.
New Scientist rises swiftly to break the news of hybrid aircraft that combine helicopters, planes, hovercrafts and blimps: The peculiar aircraft is currently undergoing feasibility […]
Meet the new shark.
Science Daily introduces us to the Carolina hammerhead, an all-new species of shark: Through its rarity, the new species, Sphyrna gilberti, underscores the fragility of […]