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 News reports on studies that find the parts of your brain in charge of navigation never rests, even when you’re asleep:
… Read the rest “Your brain’s mapmaker never, ever sleeps.”Nestled in a part of the brain called the medial entorhinal
Nature has more on Navajo leaders – in charge of the second-largest Native American group in the U.S. – possibly ending 15 years of forbidding genetic studies on their people… Read the rest “Navajo nation might just let geneticists study them after all.”
The USGS Earth Explorer program shared these before-and-after pictures of Puerto Rico. The main difference that’s visible from the Landsat 8 satellite… Read the rest “Science Art: Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, by Landsat 8”
NextBigFuture bigs up the Rice University researchers who added a pinch of asphalt and graphene to their batteries to create a high-capacity power source that that charges up 20 times faster… Read the rest “Battery charging got 20 times faster – by adding asphalt.”
Nature is following the geologists who are tracking, for the first time, the impressive number of – and factors involved in –earthquakes believed to be caused by human activity… Read the rest “Human-triggered earthquakes – how do we know?”
Nature, reporting on the effects of droughts and logging, reveals that the world’s jungles are now producing more CO2 than they’re socking away out of the atmosphere:
… Read the rest “Tropical rainforests have become carbon *producers*, not carbon sinks.”Whereas
I was going to post something else here, but then I saw this on nemfrog this morning and had to share.
It’s the Elephant-Headed Boy (Puer Capite Elephantino) and the Horned Infant (Infans… Read the rest “Science Art: Puer Capite Elephantino…. from Gaspar Schott, 1662.”
New Scientist reports with hope for celiac-disease sufferers on a new breed of wheat that’s genetically modified not to produce inflammation-causing gluten:
… Read the rest “GMO wheat is gluten free. (Hard choices, right?)”Gluten is the general
National Geographic (after Nature) introduces us to a brand new mammal species – or new to us, anyway – that tumbled out of a tree in the Solomon Islands. This is the once-mythical,… Read the rest “Welcome, giant coconut rat. Nice to meet you!”
SONG: “Around This Mystery”.
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SOURCE:Octlantis is a just-discovered underwater city engineered by octopuses,” Quartz, 17 Sep 2017, as used in the … Read the rest “SONG: Around This Mystery”
Science Daily struggles to define a strange thing the Hubble telescope found between Jupiter and Mars:
… Read the rest “It’s a comet. It’s an asteroid. It’s twins. It’s… weird.”With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German-led group of astronomers
Quark goes deep to plumb the mysteries of the cephalopod city scientists have dubbed “Octlantis”:
… Read the rest “The social life of octopuses.”In Jervis Bay, off Eastern Australia, researchers recently spotted 15
Nature gets to the fundamentals of the filthy lucre we’re finding in filth:
… Read the rest “The poop economy is flourishing.”The facility is called Pivot, and its founder is Ashley Muspratt, a sanitation engineer who lived in Ghana,
A patent for a device putting wood-cutting blades on a chain, so that people can cut down trees – or, in the wake of hurricanes, cut up ones that have fallen down.
Technically,… Read the rest “Science Art: Chain Saw, US 1655856 A, Jan. 10, 1928.”
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