This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis 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.)
ARTIST: grant.
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 moreThough it looks like postmodern architecture (Eero Saarinen, maybe?), this is actually inside your salad.
It’s a helical granum of a thylakoid stack, the part … Read the rest “Science Art: Helical Granum, by Kelvinsong”
Science News shows how the marshmallow game – give a pre-teen one marshmallow now or let them wait, staring at it, for n minutes to get two later – is changing over time. Today’s… Read the rest “Kids are proving more patient than ever.”
Science Daily reveals that the Milky Way is more like the Greasy Way, with the discovery of lots of “grease-like molecules” floating in the void between the stars:
… Read the rest “We’re a greasy galaxy”Astronomers
Nature reveals that natural gas is quite a bit more polluting than we thought – with less-than-airtight facilities leaking 60% more methane than estimated, or about $2 billion in… Read the rest “Natural gas: Not all that clean (but we can fix it!)”
The Guardian explores what the research doesn’t say about letting kids zonk out on their video games and iPads and computer screens and whatnot:
… Read the rest “Screen-time for kids: Science says… well… maybe not all that bad?”Andy Przybylski, associate professor
It’s hot here. Spent all day at a swim meet. Non-competitors not allowed in pool. There’s a chain now that makes ice cream using frozen nitrogen. Science art… Read the rest “Science Art: Nitrogen with Secret Binary Robot (Brain Freeze Ice Cream Wallpaper Detail), editor’s own work.”
I got a lot of stuff going on. I got a melody, and a subject, but I got no lyrics, and I got a lot of stuff going on. New song and penitential cover forthcoming shortly.
Science Daily takes us to the Gulf of Mexico, where scientists have finished the first-ever study of a nursery for baby manta rays:
… Read the rest “The manta ray nursery.”Located in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas at NOAA’s
Nature shows us how to rebuild body parts from scratch – well, as long as we’re planarians, that is. But still, it’s one specific kind of cell that lets them rebuild their… Read the rest “One cell lets a planarian regenerate any body part.”
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Over a million people could live here, in a double-cylinder colony in space.
From the NASA Ames Research Center’s concepts of future space colonies (as imagined… Read the rest “Science Art: Cylindrical Colonies: Interior view looking out through large windows, by Rick Guidice”
Barbados is smothering under a blanket of seaweed. That’s the word from Hakai Magazine, which is studying a sudden, lethal growth in sargassum that seems to be choking off the islands… Read the rest “A sea of sargasso swamps the Eastern Caribbean”
No, this isn’t a heart-wrenching sequel to The Little Prince. It’s a report in Nature on a baffling illness striking down some of Africa’s most distinctive trees:
… Read the rest “The baobabs are dying.”In
Science News tries to get to the bottom of the weird symptoms that American diplomatic workers experienced in China and Cuba recently… and can’t. A team writing in JAMA found… Read the rest “About those sonic weapon attacks on American embassies….”
Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger was an Austrian mineralogist who during his career helped mining engineers dig better mines and looked at rocks that looked like other rocks… Read the rest “Science Art: Fall des Meteors am 9 Juni 1866, by Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger”
Science Daily has (rather densely written) research showing how specific drugs could not only stop dementia but reverse its effects:
… Read the rest “Researchers reverse dementia.”A lack of knowledge about cellular pathways critical
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