This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreThis is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreThis is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreThis is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreThis is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreNature explores the data being gathered about the surprising significance of time-of-day to effective medical treatment: More than four decades of studies describe how accounting […]
Click to embiggen NASA wants you to know they’re pretty handy here on Earth, too. This here shows a way to make trains and other […]
The Guardian looks at one of the less discussed elements of climate change – with a once-dependable ocean current slowing, slowing, slowing down in a […]
I can’t beat Nature‘s headline, so I won’t even try. “Giant genitals were the downfall of some ancient crustaceans.” The creatures from the Late Cretaceous […]
LiveScience introduces us to Saniwa ensidens, a now-extinct monitor lizard from Wyoming that had an eye on either side of its head and two more […]
Click to embiggen This is the bus that takes the astronauts to work at the space station. It’s a long commute for a longer shift […]
PhysOrg returns to the sunstone – remember the sunstone? the calcite crystal that may have helped the Vikings plot courses at sea? that inspired this […]
The Guardian looks at the journal Energy and Environmental Science to find out just how well the U.S. could handle switching over power supplies right […]
NPR recently ran a story on a new use for a fairly well-known drug, ivermectin. If you have a dog or cat (or horse or […]
From De formatione ovi, et pulli, by Fabricius ab Aquapendente, also known as Hieronymus Fabricius or Girolamo Fabrizio d’Acquapendente. He was an Italian surgeon who […]
The Guardian has a game-changing invention for neurologists and anyone who needs a brain-scan done – a wearable helmet that lets you walk around – […]
Nature reveals the ins and outs of dinosaur-era reproductive strategies, with research showing that prehistoric birds were too heavy to incubate their own eggs: Most […]
South China Morning Post reports on the massive mausoleum of a legendary figure from Chinese history – the general Cao Cao, a character in the […]
This is an animated gif showing a ring singularity or “ringularity” of a spinning black hole. A black hole that doesn’t spin will collapse into […]
SONG: “The Hardest Fact (Considering IMS J2204+0112)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News, 16 Mar 2018, “Astronomers can’t figure out why some black holes got so […]
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