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 moreA poster recruiting colonists to Mars. A bit early, sure, but it can’t hurt to be ready.
Though I wonder how welding would really work in a low-oxygen atmosphere.… Read the rest “Science Art: Some User Assembly Required, NASA “Mars Explorers Wanted” collection.”
SONG: “Nine Dangshen Flowers”.
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SOURCE:China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky action’ at record distance,” Science, 15 Jun 2017, as used in the… Read the rest “SONG: Nine Dangshen Flowers”
Science Daily investigates what makes “the peculiar” so peculiarly easy to remember:
… Read the rest “Memory is peculiar. And peculiar is memorable.”It’s this notion of ‘peculiarity’ that can help us understand
Nature examines a tree that was alive in the time of Napoleon, yet has DNA that’s remarkably free of the usual damage of aging:
… Read the rest “Very old oak; pretty young genes.”Each time a cell divides, mutations can arise because
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Ooo! Everyone loves a party!
This is a protein, though, not a party decoration. The full title of this image (or, really, description) is “Top view of ribbon diagram… Read the rest “Science Art: Top view of ribbon diagram of ribonuclease inhibitor (PDB accession code 2BNH). ”
Science magazine reports on the latest Chinese space breakthrough – one that could lead to instant communication with distant spaceships, or hack-proof communications here on… Read the rest “Here’s your sub-space radio: China gets quantum entanglement to work from orbit.”
Science Daily reports on a hurdle being cleared on the way to wirelessly charging a moving electric vehicle:
… Read the rest “How to charge an electric car on the road.”If electric cars could recharge while driving down a highway, it would virtually
Popular Science is trying to figure out if you can teach a robin to sing like a swallow, or a warbler to tweet like a canary… and, as far as researchers David Wheatcroft & Anna Qvarnström… Read the rest “Birds’ songs are in their genes.”
Wildflower and fruit, from two 16th-century Europeans.
More specifically:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear by Hoefnagel and Bocskay, 1561-2.”Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear ( 1561 – 1562 ).
Watercolour, gold and silver paint, and ink on parchment
Nature turns the origins of modern humans – not Neanderthals, not Denisovans, but Homo sapiens like you and me – back more than 100,000 years, and a long way from where they should… Read the rest “The oldest Homo sapiens are from Morocco. And pretty darn old.”
Nature looks at another way personalized treatments could save lives – by taking into account how different people’s gut bacteria affect drugs differently:
… Read the rest “Your gut bacteria could neutralize your cancer medication.”Bacteria living
So much depends on perspective.
Image from the European Space Agency – taken by Cassini on its way to Saturn, and doing a little prep work, a little early investigating,… Read the rest “Science Art: Cassini’s view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, 2014”
Science Daily gets muscle augmentation away from the whole “real-life Iron Man” thing with news of what looks like a pair of robotic shorts… a hip-helping soft, tethered… Read the rest “Soft exosuit boosts runners’ performance”
This isn’t really research, but does speak to what this site has been doing (or pointing at) for the past nine years… so I wanted you, gentle reader, to spend a moment with this.… Read the rest ““Complexity and nuance required”: a conservative ecologist.”
Science Daily takes a deeper look at the problems with car and truck exhaust fumes:
… Read the rest “Air pollution may be four times worse than we thought. (In Europe, at least.)”Environmental protection and health agencies base their air pollution management on atmospheric models
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