This is the flying lemur, or colugo, also known as the order Dermoptera – the “skin-wings.” They’re related to shrews and bats moreso than real lemurs, which … Read the rest “Science Art: Flying Lemur, Webster’s New International, 1911.”
Or, well, their valences, which is as good as it gets without Heisenberg getting in the way. Yeah, the Corante Pipeline has a post describing what it’s like to look inside atoms:
… Read the rest “We can see electrons.”The
That’s the trick. That’s how this guy in South Africa’s Mail & Guardian (and elsewhere) says we’ll do it. We’ll be able to send people to Mars as long… Read the rest “One-way ticket to Mars.”
This may just be a behavioral curiosity, but I can’t help wonder if the devastation from white-nose fungus is playing more havoc than we realize. I don’t see a connection, but… Read the rest “Bats in daylight.”
Or at least a very, very big, mythical bird… that turned out to be real:
… Read the rest “Behold the roc!”“It was certainly capable of swooping down and taking a child,” said Paul Scofield, the curator
The Antipodean ABC Science News has hopeful news about antibiotic resistant superbugs. They might have an Achilles heel after all:
… Read the rest “Undoing antibiotic resistance.”Researchers at New York University report in the journal
A still life from the NASA Great Images collection.
This was a prototype of the craft that went on to explore the outer reaches of the solar system, then become a machine consciousness… Read the rest “Science Art: Voyager Spacecraft During Vibration Testing, 1977”
We’ve been watching chimpanzee’s faces. Why not? They can be funny to look at, often, and they can help us understand how we communicate emotions and why we do what we see.
… Read the rest “Human see. Chimps do.”Irish
ABC Science (the Australian network, not the American one) is taking a long look at lizards – specifically, the medical information we can get from geckos’ wriggling tails… Read the rest “How do geckos drop their tails?”
OK, sorry for that headline. Ahem. But here! There are these two kids in Nepal who figured out how to make solar energy a heck of a lot cheaper to harness:
… Read the rest “Affordable solar? Hair’s the ticket.”Milan Karki and Harihar Adhikari, have
I just had an enjoyable email exchange with a friend who asked me about something he’d been wondering. (These are generally the best kinds of email exchanges to have.) He’d … Read the rest “Reclaiming forgotten power.”
Johns Hopkins University is unleashing a wave of… no, wait. It’s farms. Johns Hopkins is just warning about it. Farms, however, are unleashing a wave of antibiotic terror… Read the rest “Terror from the farm.”
This is Discoaster surculus. Remember last week, that ocean picture that showed millions of coccolithophores floating in the ocean, sucking up CO2 and making future … Read the rest “Science Art: Discoaster surculus.”
The association between songs about science and songs for kids is never entirely broken, I guess, since both endeavors are supposedly educational. So it’s just as well that They … Read the rest “Welcome back to the territory, TMBG.”
The Telegraph unveils a beautiful portrait of a fearsome beast – an ancient squid drawn in its own petrified ink:
… Read the rest “Prehistoric squid drawn in prehistoric ink.”“It is difficult to imagine how you can have something as soft
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