Jupiter has 12 more moons – including one that’s *weird*.
Science Daily covers the Carnegie Institution for Science’s discovery of 12 previously unknown moons around Jupiter, including a tiny, backward Jovian moon they’re calling an […]
Science Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreHow rats can kill a coral reef.
Nature has the answer, as supplied by a team of British and Australian researchers. Even though rats can’t live underwater, they can do fine on […]
SONG: One of Our Submarines (a penitential Thomas Dolby cover)
SONG: “One of Our Submarines” (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the June […]
Science Art: Partial Eclipse of the Moon by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
Almost a crescent. A moon of the late 1800s. An astronomical drawing from the French-born Harvard researcher who, as an entomologist (as well as an […]
This jungle wasp has a stinger almost as long as the rest of its body.
Science Daily introduces us to a newly discovered Amazonian wasp that’s singularly well-endowed in the stinger department: “The stinger of the new parasitoid wasp called […]
Genetically modifying cannabis… for science and for profit.
Nature looks at a bold new frontier (and whole new money-making opportunities) opened by fiddling around with cannabis DNA: On 25 June, the FDA announced […]
Science Art: Fig. 353, Wessel’s Gas Stove
How a young person can launch “any number of air balloons” without the risk of setting the neighbors’ corn ricks on fire – by using […]
SONG: Upside Down
SONG: “Upside Down”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 12 June 2018, “Africa’s majestic baobab trees are mysteriously dying”, as used in the post “The baobabs are […]
Studying the seat of parrot intelligence
Science Daily looks at a University of Alberta study that has found something interesting about how intelligence forms in our brains – by isolating a […]
A blood test for autism passes second trial
Science Daily reports on Rensselaer Polytechnic researchers who have had further success in devising a blood-test that assesses whether children are on the autism spectrum: […]
There might not be a limit to human longevity.
The dominant idea is that humans genetically are inclined to live 120 years and no longer. But a new study published in Science demonstrates that […]
Science Art: Helical Granum, by Kelvinsong
Click to embiggen Though it looks like postmodern architecture (Eero Saarinen, maybe?), this is actually inside your salad. It’s a helical granum of a thylakoid […]
Kids are proving more patient than ever.
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 […]
We’re a greasy galaxy
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 […]
Natural gas: Not all that clean (but we can fix it!)
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 […]