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 […]
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreA 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 […]
Screen-time for kids: Science says… well… maybe not all that bad?
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: Andy […]
Science Art: Nitrogen with Secret Binary Robot (Brain Freeze Ice Cream Wallpaper Detail), editor’s own work.
Click to embiggen 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 […]
No Song This Weekend
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 […]
The manta ray nursery.
Science Daily takes us to the Gulf of Mexico, where scientists have finished the first-ever study of a nursery for baby manta rays: Located in […]
One cell lets a planarian regenerate any body part.
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 […]
Science Art: Cylindrical Colonies: Interior view looking out through large windows, by Rick Guidice
Click to embiggen Over a million people could live here, in a double-cylinder colony in space. From the NASA Ames Research Center’s concepts of future […]
A sea of sargasso swamps the Eastern Caribbean
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 […]
The baobabs are dying.
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 […]