Science
Science Art: Schlieren photograph of a T-38 at Mach 1.1, altitude 13,700 feet, by Leonard Weinstein.
Click to embiggen This is what a sonic boom looks like, through a Schlieren camera – one outfitted to see differences in air pressure. The […]
Scratch that asteroid.
Science Daily blows a hole in what had been history’s biggest explosion with news that that colossal asteroid that made the Yucatan might not have […]
The sound of a hundred shrugging epidemiologists.
New Scientist is being reassuring – sort of – when it declares that this swine flu pandemic business isn’t any kind of surprise: But in […]
For those on the right, sorry, he really is joking.
The Colbert Report recently made science news over the space station naming controversy. Well, unbowed and unbloodied, the “right-wing” “pundit” once again “made the news” […]
Memory and meditation.
You’d expect that meditation would improve your ability to remember things, I suppose. But this study mentioned in New Scientist shows that it really depends […]
Science Art: Aard-wolf, Webster’s New International
Proteles cristata, the earth-wolf of southern Africaraman amplifier. He’s got a guilty look about him, doesn’t he? He knows what the other hyenas have been […]
Home-grown and then some.
The FASEB Journal makes me uneasy with a new biochemical study. I’m beginning to worry that any minute now, government agents will be arresting my […]
Ammā Dnghu: A taste for PIE.
Forget Hebrew, Latin and Old Norse – the Page F30 blog reports on folks out there working to bring back a really old language: That’s […]
Men need not apply.
The Telegraph, among other news sources, revels in my obsolescence. I am biologically and genetically surplus to needs. I am a man, and they’ve found […]
Science art: Cannabis sativa, Nordisk familjebok
Happy 4/20, all you stoners. This is where rope comes from. And paper, and oil, and birdseed, and cheese, and fabric, and…. duuuuude. Image found […]
Sushi ain’t green.
Scientific American raises the alarming prospect that, much quicker than anyone expected, bluefin tuna is going the way of the dodo: As European fishing fleets […]
Chimp tricks.
LiveScience sullies our image of chimpanzees as noble, natural creatures with evidence that these apes practice prostitution: The primates’ food-for-sex barter occurs indirectly, over the […]
Beauty before flight?
You might think flying is an impressive enough goal for any creature, but the Telegraph reveals new clues that dinosaurs may have evolved wings to […]
Touch the vision.
ScienceNOW is watching perceptual experts sketch out the first map of a strange sensory hinterland – the perceptual space that lies between what you see […]