Fish legs taste the sea floor.
Science Daily goes deep (well, a little deep) on sea robins, the fish known for having little legs they use to scurry across the ocean […]
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James Webb will be looking for other Earths in unusual places.
Mashable has the details, but the general gist is the space telescope will not focus on Sun-like stars to find Earth-like planets (that is, rocky […]
Science Art: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 at NASM (NHQ202303280029), 2023
As the image description tells it: NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, left, Jessica Watkins, center, and Robert Hines, right, are seen in the in the One […]
Look into a dog’s eyes and your brains can synchronize.
Science Alert explains the allure of the puppy-dog eyes with Chinese research demonstrating brainwaves suddenly syncing up between humans and dogs when they look into […]
Maybe the Earth had a ring like Saturn once…
Science Direct, or really, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, has a study of very old craters that suggests that in the Ordovician period, around 460 […]
Science Art: Illustration, New Model 1806 Fiber-Optics Cathode-Ray Tube Visicorder from a Honeywell brochure, c.1973
This is a scientist operating scientific equipment, or a model posing as a scientist showing off the capabilities of a shiny new piece of informational […]
Bat deaths to fungus result in more than 1,300 human children dying.
The Guardian reports on a study of knock-on effects. Bat populations have been decimated in the U.S. and beyond by the white-nose fungus. Because bats […]
Science Art: Almeö Dog Skeleton, by Gunnar Creutz.
A prehistoric pet. This is a mesolithic dog, same dog we know today more or less, Canis lupus familiaris, but about 9,300 years old. It […]
Cats will play fetch too.
The Conversation extends the dog-owner’s friendly game of fetch to feline friends who, researchers have found, can also enjoy bringing back toys that are thrown […]
Take a look inside by dyeing your skin transparent.
The Guardian reveals a … well, a revealing discovery, that a common food dye can be used to make skin and muscle transparent enough for […]
Science Art: Sagitta atlantica and Sagitta equatoria, 1922.
These are illustrations from “Notes on Species of Sagitta Collected on a Voyage from England to Australia” by B.B. Gray, as published in The Proceedings […]
Ukrainian military to use robot dogs.
The Byte is not filling us with apprehension at all with news of robot dogs being unleashed in the latest escalation of their conflict with […]
Neuralink “sight-restoring” implant has a problem: brains don’t have pixels.
The Conversation discusses an engineering problem with electronic brain implants intended to restore vision, like Neuralink’s hyped Blindsight. They can add more pixels to the […]
Science Art: Herring Gull 4, by Robert Pos, 2008.
Here’s Larus argentatus, one of those wild animals that barely seems wild because it interacts with people so much. Simple line art captures a wild […]
The Wow! signal probably wasn’t aliens (but is still wow).
Scientific American has a new explanation for the famous “Wow!” signal – the orderly burst of focused radio energy recorded in 1977 that seemed like […]