Battery charging got 20 times faster – by adding asphalt.
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 […]
Science Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreHuman-triggered earthquakes – how do we know?
Nature is following the geologists who are tracking, for the first time, the impressive number of – and factors involved in –earthquakes believed to be […]
Tropical rainforests have become carbon *producers*, not carbon sinks.
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 […]
Science Art: Puer Capite Elephantino…. from Gaspar Schott, 1662.
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 […]
GMO wheat is gluten free. (Hard choices, right?)
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: Gluten is the […]
Welcome, giant coconut rat. Nice to meet you!
National Geographic (after Nature) introduces us to a brand new mammal species – or new to us, anyway – that tumbled out of a tree […]
Science Art: Diagrammatic Figures of Cirroteuthis magna, drawn to a scale of about one-twentieth, 1886
Click to embiggen Octopus geometry, from Report on the Cephalopoda collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873-76, by William Hoyle.
SONG: Around This Mystery
SONG: “Around This Mystery”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Octlantis is a just-discovered underwater city engineered by octopuses,” Quartz, 17 Sep 2017, as used in the post “The […]
It’s a comet. It’s an asteroid. It’s twins. It’s… weird.
Science Daily struggles to define a strange thing the Hubble telescope found between Jupiter and Mars: With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, […]
The social life of octopuses.
Quark goes deep to plumb the mysteries of the cephalopod city scientists have dubbed “Octlantis”: In Jervis Bay, off Eastern Australia, researchers recently spotted 15 […]
The poop economy is flourishing.
Nature gets to the fundamentals of the filthy lucre we’re finding in filth: The facility is called Pivot, and its founder is Ashley Muspratt, a […]
Science Art: Chain Saw, US 1655856 A, Jan. 10, 1928.
Click to embiggen A patent for a device putting wood-cutting blades on a chain, so that people can cut down trees – or, in the […]
Where the oceans are rising.
Nature gives us a much closer look not just at how much the ocean is rising, but where the levels will be changing most, using […]
How Dan Rather taught us how to see hurricanes.
This isn’t new research, but a look back at some technological history most of us might not know. The Atlantic reminds us how a young […]
Dogs know themselves (as if we didn’t know that already). By their noses.
Science Daily reports on Barnard College and Tomsk State University researchers who have looked at dogs looking at (and sniffing) themselves and found that, yep, […]