They drank bad water in Pompeii.
EurekAlert has research from the University of Southern Denmark on just how doomed Pompeii really was. Not only was that volcano about to engulf the […]
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read more2.7 million-year-old ice shatters records, reveals ancient atmospheres – and ice ages.
(Plural intended.) Science magazine looks back at lots of tiny, tiny pockets of the distant past – with a deep ice core that contains samples […]
Rising CO2 levels mean we’ll get less protein from our grain crops.
Science Daily has one for the “Yeah. Great.” file – research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health showing that the rising carbon […]
Gene editing brings pig-to-human organ transplants one step closer.
Science magazine mulls over new research showing how CRISPR gene editing successfully got rid of PERVs – porcine endogenous retroviruses – and made it that […]
Science Art: Theorica Eclipsis Solaris, by Georg von Peurbach.
This is a diagram of how a solar eclipse works, or at least how they thought one worked in the 14th century. It might be […]
Antibacterial soap could be messing up our unborn babies.
Science Daily gives us research from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that show that the active ingredient in antibacterial soap can pass from mother to child […]
DNA is rewriting humans’ family tree… again.
PhysOrg looks back at our misunderstood ancestors with a University of Utah team that has revealed more about how – and when – Denisovans and […]
Jordan: Techno-utopia.
Nature reports on Jordan’s new push to make itself into the future scientific powerhouse of the Middle East: Jordan’s leaders see science, engineering and technology […]
Science Art: Mummy Portrait of a Woman (73.AP.91), attributed to Malibu Painter.
Click to embiggen The Malibu Painter, who probably painted this, was not active in California’s surf culture, but in Egypt around the time the first […]
Good picture of dark matter.
Science Daily gets us a better look than ever before at how much dark matter is out there, where it is, and what it’s doing […]
We’ve edited the genes of human embryos now.
Nature has the story of an international team led by Portland-based reproductive biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov, who used CRISPR gene-editing to erase a potentially fatal heart […]
Bacteria could rid the South Pacific of mosquitoes within a decade.
Nature has more on a Tahitian lab’s plan to use Wolbachia bacteria to wipe out mosquitoes: The mosquito problem could be solved in the Society […]
Science Art: 1. Papilio Memnon? 2. Pap. Aeneas
Click to embiggen Butterflies of South Asia and Central and South America. Pretty butterflies. Or, as James Duncan and Sir William Jardine called them, Foreign […]
Babies’ brain cells add years to mice’s lives.
Nature is absolutely not trying to cause any panic with news that injecting baby brain cells into older mice keep them younger and healthier longer: […]
Does your tunnel come after the white light?
Science Daily investigates the process of dying – or rather, Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). Although people report very similar NDEs across cultures – looking down at […]