This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreReally, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreThis is a line drawing of the Apollo mission’s lunar module reaching the Moon, staying a while, and then coming…
Read moreMongabay reports on a survey of data going back 25 years that show Alaskan coastal wolves have changed their diet from deer to sea otters — and have acquired toxic levels of mercury … Read the rest “Eating sea otters is giving wolves mercury poisoning.”
That’s a closeup of the Surveyor-1 satellite printed above an image of the Gemini orbital capsule, with the words “WE GAVE” (image of Surveyor-1) “a mirror and”… Read the rest “Science Art: Detail from Tinsley Laboratories ad, 1966.”
The Verge reports on a new competitor to Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic in the reusable rocket game – one with a slightly longer legacy of success in mass-produced mechanical-engineering… Read the rest “Honda has entered Space Race 2.0”
New Scientist plumbs the depths in search of foot-long white shrimp-like creatures that might be one of the most populous creatures on the bottom of the ocean, but about which we know very… Read the rest “Gigantic, ghostly crustaceans could live over half the ocean floor.”
Someone in China hasn’t watched Kristen Stewart in UNDERWATER… or so Sustainability Times leads me to believe. They’re reporting (rather breathlessly) on a “deep-sea… Read the rest “China’s undersea station.”
This is a picture of a mesonychid, a family of prehistoric creatures known as “wolves with hooves.”
I got the idea to post this from a Bluesky post by Riley “Resting Dino… Read the rest “Science Art: Harpagolestes immanis, by Ryan Somma.”
This is Venus, moving in front of the Sun. Technically, I suppose it’s a lot of Venuses, or a chain of a lot of pictures of Venus.
It was made by NASA/SDO, AIA, or NASA’s Solar Dynamics… Read the rest “Science Art: Transit of Venus in 2012.”
Smithsonian shares some unusual observations from Australia, where wild cockatoos have learned to operate the controls of water fountains in public parks to get a quick drink:
… Read the rest “Wild cockatoos use public water fountains”Barbara
PhysOrg reports on an archaeological discovery in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, which seems to have been the site of a 1,000-year-old Native American farming complex more than 330… Read the rest “Ancient megafarm found in Michigan.”
Nature reports on a study from China that found thousands of endangered trees growing on the grounds of religious monuments across the country:
… Read the rest “The temple as refuge … for endangered species.”It is an example of “where ecological and
This is an image of a white plume moth, a photograph taken of a specimen in the Muséum de Toulouse in August of 2011. The moths really look like this in life, too. But this one was on display in … Read the rest “Science Art: Pterophorus pentadactyla MHNT, by Didier Descouens”
This is a waterwork as the Industrial Revolution hit full swing.
It’s the final image in a book I’ve used here before, A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering:… Read the rest “Science Art: Turbines and Pumps, Manchester, 1882.”
SONG: “Hyperfocus”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “Something in The Back of Your Eye Could Reveal Whether You Have ADHD,” Science Alert… Read the rest “SONG: Hyperfocus”
Science Alert carries news of a Korean research project that used AI to study images of the fundus, an area of the back of the eye, to successfully pinpoint patients with attention-deficit… Read the rest “ADHD diagnosed by looking deeply into your eyes.”
Science Daily reports on Duke researchers who have created a new class of painkiller that experiments show is as effective as opioids at eliminating pain from injuries and surgeries, but… Read the rest “Painkiller outsmarts opioids.”
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