This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreThis is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreThese are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreRed pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreThis is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreScience revisits one of my childhood nightmares (one of many blessings from frequent family visits to South Africa) with news of researchers infecting volunteers with […]
Nature gets a little provocative with research that seems to show that as much air pollution comes from our houses as our cars: Volatile organic […]
Science Daily looks at an “optical state” – a form of light that can allow engineers to create super-fast quantum computers powered by photons: Try […]
Science Daily reports on Rockefeller University researchers who have undone the damage of Alzheimer’s Disease in mice by gradually depleting levels of a particular brain […]
Click to embiggen The answer, from the US Geological Survey’s Facebook page, is an algal bloom in Lake Erie, as photographed by Landsat: In late […]
Science Daily turns the lights up on Michigan State University neurological research showing sitting in a darkened room can hurt the brain’s ability to remember […]
Nature has a new process for turning trees into a building material that’s tougher than girders or automobile frames: “It’s a new class of materials […]
Click to embiggen Alembics (or alambics), used to distill and to purify. Where whiskey comes from, and all kinds of other chemistry.
Xinhuanet reports on an ancient civil engineering project – a tomb from 1,000 years ago that has an elaborate system to keep water – and […]
The Guardian reports on a new discovery shedding light on the ancient mystery of Stonehenge – by showing us where the megalithic architects lived – […]
Click to embiggen Money! Monkey money! This is some currency art done in niobium and silver, honoring the discipline of evolutionary biology. I don’t think […]
Science News gets the answers on what suddenly killed 200,000 saiga antelopes in 2015: “If you come at dawn and dusk, it’s magical,” says E.J. […]
Of course. Of course. The Guardian reveals that orcas can use human speech when it suits them: New research reveals that orcas are able to […]
Click to embiggen More astronaut optimism, less everything else. From the NASA Image HQ Flickr account: Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan […]
The American Council on Health and Social Science looks at the epidemiology of human behavior – and things we want to believe – by finding […]
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