Wanna help explore the ocean? You can.
Nature reports on a new initiative to crowdsource oceanography: Just about the first action involved in any experiment at sea is the casting overboard of […]
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Make marshes, keep Earth cool.
Laboratory Equipment recommends getting bogged down to prevent global warming, with research that shows man-made marshes can fight climate change: …[S]ays Bill Mitsch, director of […]
NASA answers 7-year-old’s letter.
Stay cool, space explorers. Never change.
Science Art: Black Hole Lensing by Urbane Legend
An animated GIF (if it’s not moving for you, click the link) showing what it looks like if you’re looking at a black hole when […]
Hipster heat maps and yuppie data visualizations
Slate brings psychogeography a step closer to the mainstream, highlighting software that uses word frequency to show what kinds of people are in what parts […]
Telescope contact lenses are a real thing.
Extreme Tech has the details on the contacts that let you see like an eagle: The center of the lens allows light to pass straight […]
Pitchers tell evolution’s story
Nature draws an ancient lesson from America’s favorite pastime, observing how baseball pitchers reveal the evolution of human beings: “Throwing projectiles probably enabled our ancestors […]
Komodo dragons’ lethal, bone-crushing jaws not all *that* dirty.
Discover Magazine tries to put the record straight, revealing that the supposedly septic-mouthed Komodo dragons have been getting a bad rap: But of all the […]
Science Art: Chick and Egg of Tinamou &c, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, February 13, 1868
Awww – is a teeny tiny tinamou! It’s from this 1868 issue of Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London found in the Biodiversity Heritage […]
Not solid, liquid, gas or plasma. Nuclear pasta.
Space.com looks hungrily to the stars… neutron stars, where a whole new form of matter makes seriously strange space spaghetti: A rare state of matter […]
A scientific mission to seek out new life and maybe some more duct tape. And baling wire.
Nature bemoans the fact that America’s technological prowess is on the wane – and it’s getting really obvious that our science fleet has seen better […]
Science Art: Ceratosaurus & Dryosaurus in Carnegie Museum, photo by Kordite.
That’s a dryosaurus being hunted. Not a dysalotosaurus. Probably…. Photo from
Hey, @aliens! So this is where we are, and this is what we do! KThxBye!
Scientific American dwells on the implications of us – inadvertently AND fully intentionally – sending messages out to aliens: We’ve made a few attempts at […]
Rocket Africa: the next pathway to space.
Voice of America tracks something we were looking forward to here a while back – the blossoming potential of linking together Africa’s own space programs: […]
Jungle city discovered by laser.
If you needed any more proof we’re actually living in the pulp future of a 1920s dime novel, explorers have just used airborne lasers to […]