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.)
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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 moreScience Daily has more on the Osaka University researchers who have found a new way to stick together the ever-more complicated cells for 3D printing:
… Read the rest “A sticky bioprinting breakthrough.”Printed replacement human body parts
… Read the rest “Science Art: Apollo 8 Earthrise, Christmas Eve 1968”“Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!” –Commander Frank Borman, Apollo 8, December
SONG: “Electronics Follow”.
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SOURCE:First Digital Pill Approved to Worries About Biomedical ‘Big Brother’,” The New York Times, 13 Nov 2017, as used… Read the rest “SONG: Electronics Follow”
Earther has a nice look at a University of Virginia sound artist who’s turning shrinking glaciers into his musical instrument:
… Read the rest “Music from melting glaciers.”“We’re trying to create art, but it also has other possibilities,”
New Scientist spells out how we’re able to use sperm cells to carry chemotherapy drugs directly to tumors:
… Read the rest “We’re treating cervical cancer with cyborg sperm.”Haifeng Xu at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research
Not “field” as in “field recording,” but “field” as in “magnetic field.”
These are from a chapter on direct-current… Read the rest “Science Art: Field Rheostats, 1907”
Nature gives us a charge from the possible use of electric eel generating systems to power replacement organs:
… Read the rest “Electric-eel power plants could fuel artificial organs”The prototype, described in Nature on 13 December, runs on a solution of salt
So, yes, I’ve already written an OK song about giant penguins before, but this is a new and different thing. NPR is reporting on a Nature study about a 220-pound penguin that was something… Read the rest “The Age of Giant Penguins. After the Age of Dinosaurs, before the Age of Giant Mammals.”
Nature steps into the alternative-medicine fray with research showing that acupuncture significantly reduces pain for female breast-cancer patients:
… Read the rest “Acupuncture seems to work to ease cancer pain.”Oncologists who conducted a
A red laser pointer. A chunk of “bad” glass. A blank wall. And here, a remarkable thing.
From the Wikimedia Commons description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Red laser through irregular glass mj1, by Mariojan Photo, 2007”A red laser beam passes
Ever the showman, Elon Musk has announced his plans (via Agence France-Presse) to not only launch one of the largest rockets ever into Mars orbit next month, but to have it carrying his own… Read the rest “Falcon Heavy will carry Elon Musk’s car to Mars next month.”
Science Daily reveals how MIT researchers used 3D printing to create the world’s first temporary tattoo made from living cells that act as sensors or circuits:
… Read the rest “A living tattoo that’s also a computer.”The cells are engineered
LiveScience reports on Norwegian railway construction workers who found a whetstone carved with a (relatively rare) runic inscription:
… Read the rest “We found some runes by the railway….”Runic writing was used in Norway and other parts
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I’m not sure exactly what the story is behind this image, because it’s part of the bewildering-but-great (and partially mechanically curated) … Read the rest “Science Art: The Great Telescope, Melbourne Observatory”
The Guardian takes us to Xinjiang, where paleontologists have opened a new window onto the past by unearthing an amazing trove of fossilized pterodactyl eggs:
… Read the rest “Pterodactyl treasure trove.”Scientists said on Thursday
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