Sonifications turn telescope images of deep space into music.
Science News listens to astronomical data in a way that’s helping vision-impaired people and scientists find new ways to understand what our deep-space telescopes are […]
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Science Art: Astro-2 Observavory in STS-67 Payload Bay, 1995
A space telescope inside a space shuttle, from the STS-67 mission. The mission summary, from archive.org, is: The Space Shuttle Endeavor, scheduled to launch March […]
New superconductor has zero resistance at room temperature. With one catch….
New Scientist reports on a new material that conducts electricity with no resistance whatsoever at room temperature – something electronics and electrical engineers have been […]
Why do female moles grow testicles?
LiveScience answers that question: because a female mole’s underground life is brutal: Just like a more typical mammalian ovary, ovotestes nurture and release eggs for […]
Science Art: Chasse à courre en dirigeable, by Albert Guillaume.
Click to embiggen This is a cartoon inspired by “the experiences of Santos-Dumont,” the famed Brazilian-born aviator who maybe might have kind of sort of […]
Nobel CRISPR research as a sporting competition – or a war.
Defector, a media outlet I’m rooting for, basically came to be when a bunch of Deadspin staffers refused to follow the corporate edict, “Stick to […]
Using DNA to take snapshots of cells
Science magazine takes focus on a new form of microscopy, using DNA like a microscope to look inside cells: To make the DNA microscope, postdoc […]
Spaceport Cornwall?
In some ways, Cornwall seems to me like Britain’s Florida – a peninsula that juts into the Gulf Stream, with water warm enough that they’ve […]
Light-loving algae survive, trapped under dark Arctic ice.
Science News plunges into the dark, icy depths to discover how it is that phytoplankton, which convert sunlight to energy, survive and even thrive under […]
Science Art: Escut del Marquès d’Oró (Escutcheon of the Marquis d’Oró)
Click to embiggen The Marquis d’Oró (without that accent mark, he’d be the Marquis of Gold) has a coat of arms with a diagram of […]
Artificial intelligence is being programmed to spot disinformation – by the military.
Defense One reports on a new U.S. Air Force and Special Operations Command (SOCOM) program, using artificial intelligence to counter “information space” pollution – or, […]
They’ve mapped the part of a bird’s brain that gives them consciousness like ours.
Science magazine shares an anatomical survey of birds’ brains that reveals details of the brain section that appears to function like our cerebral cortex – […]
Now America is being invaded by jumping worms.
Science News checks out yet another disaster, though one on a smaller scale and a bit closer to the ground than most, as armies of […]
Can you hold your breath for more than 3 1/2 hours? This guy can.
Science News reports on a new record – three hours and 42 minutes underwater without coming up for air – set by a Cuvier’s beaked […]
Science Art: Single-Acting Force Pump with Ball Valves, 1903.
Among all the diagrams of force-vectors, there’s this wonderful illustration of a well-made machine in A Text-Book of Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, on archive.org. […]