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.)
ARTIST: grant.
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 moreFast Company unveils the new robots unleashed by Colin Angle, the man behind the Roomba, after he was challenged by a dive instructor in Bermuda. The marine machines are designed to seek … Read the rest “Roomba inventor creates an anti-invasive-fish robot.”
Newsweek, reporting on a study in PeerJ, demonstrates how one of the scariest dinosaurs of all was really kinda slow and clumsy:
… Read the rest “You could (probably) outrun a T. rex.”In a study published in Peer J Tuesday, a team from the University
Scientific American takes a cold, calculating look at research into the origins of our behavior. Just like parasites can spur suicidal behavior in certain hosts (all the better to reproduce),… Read the rest “Does kindness come from germs? Are the better angels of our nature really a contagious infection?”
Two torpedoes, modern (as of 1916) and ancient. That’s about the limit of my French. The book is about naval warfare, and was published while World War I was going … Read the rest “Science Art: Torpille Moderne/Torpille Ancienne from Dreadnought ou submersible by Olivier Guihéneuc, 1916”
Popular Science explains what it takes to encode a short movie using CRISPR gene-editing technology:
… Read the rest “Geneticists record a short film on DNA. No, literally ON the DNA.”Using the gene editing technique CRISPR, they encoded a series of images and a GIF into
Nature is decidedly unappetizing in its discussion of how vegetables turn attackers against each other:
… Read the rest “Tomato plants can defend themselves – by turning caterpillars into cannibals.”Integrative biologist John Orrock and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin
New Scientist takes a hard look at the realities of online harassment – how complicated it is to identify, why it’s increasing, and what can actually be done about it:
… Read the rest “Figuring out cyberbullying and online harassment. It’s harder than you’d think.”For example,
This is a fairly speculative reconstruction of an elephant-relative we really only know from footprints (or so says Wikimedia Commons, who are probably on the money here).… Read the rest “Science Art: Dinotherium, by Heinrich Harder,1916.”
Science reports on a group of researchers who recreated an extinct cousin of smallpox – one of the deadliest and most-weaponized diseases on Earth – by using simple techniques… Read the rest “Recreating deadly diseases with mail-order DNA: Here’s how.”
New Scientist looks closely at a tiny change with some big ramifications:
… Read the rest “Protons aren’t as heavy as we thought.”A fresh attempt to pin down its mass, with three times the precision of the previous best try, finds that the subatomic
New Scientist gets down with the drum circles of the male palm cockatoos – birds that make their own drumsticks to beat out sexy rhythms:
… Read the rest “Australian birds beat their own drums.”Palm cockatoos are the only species other than
Science News brings some pretty pulpy-sounding history into the present day with the discovery that a group in the world’s oldest city was carving skulls for their own mysterious… Read the rest “The Skull Cults of Göbekli Tepe”
A big electric machine, as pictured in The United States of America. A study of the American Commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, … Read the rest “Science Art: The Edison Multipolar Dynamo, 1894”
PhysOrg has one more thing Neanderthals had that we have too – dental care:
… Read the rest “Neanderthal dentistry”A discovery of multiple toothpick grooves on teeth and signs of other manipulations by a Neanderthal of
National Geographic is following the Amelia Earhart research group TIGHAR – the same group that held the chilling experiments involving coconut crabs and pig carcasses –… Read the rest “Sniffing out Amelia Earhart’s bones… with dogs.”
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