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 moreNature heralds a new, genetic weapon in our arsenal against cancer, be it pancreatic, lung, skin or liver. This is a cancer treatment based on the cancer’s genetic makeup, not what… Read the rest “New cancer drug fights tumors based on its genes, not its location.”
Silhouettes of polished redware from the Ancient Egyptian (or, really, older than Ancient Egyptian) Naqada culture. That’s about 5,500 years old, a mere century… Read the rest “Science Art: Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery: Polished Red – p. 1-22”
New Scientist is launching our hopes higher than ever with a report on a whole new electric engine that can carry a plane to space:
… Read the rest “Plasma jet engines: Taking us to space without burning fuel”Traditional jet engines create thrust by mixing compressed
SONG: “Facts Will Save Us All”.
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SOURCE:Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove,” New York Times, 17 Apr 2017, as used in the post “Microsoft’s… Read the rest “SONG: Facts Will Save Us All”
Science News reports that DNA is tough stuff, and reproductive cells that were freeze-dried and subjected to months of solar radiation came back home just fine:
… Read the rest “Mouse sperm survive in space.”If humans ever embark on
Popular Science is trying to calm folks down following hyped-up reports that the seed vault (previously sung about here) containing precious samples of all our food crops was flooded:… Read the rest “OK – Svalbard is just fine.”
This is Litchi chinensis, 荔枝, the lychee, sometimes called a “lychee nut” although it’s not nut-like at all. It’s more like a muscadine (tough skin, sweet juiciness)… Read the rest “Science Art: Lychee, from Flora Sinensis, 1656.”
SONG: “Another Girl, Another Planet” (penitential cover)
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SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the April… Read the rest “SONG: Another Girl, Another Planet (penitential cover)”
Nature reveals the new growth of ambitious plans to cool the planet with wooden skyscrapers:
… Read the rest “We’ll build skyscrapers out of wood. And do the planet some good….”Constructed almost entirely from timber in 2014, the 8-storey, 30-metre building is among
Sounds almost medieval, doesn’t it? But no, it’s not the vapors. BBC shows how dormant viruses and bacteria are waking up after centuries or even millennia under the ice:
… Read the rest “Melting permafrost is releasing ancient diseases.”In
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“Internal view of a Pratt & Whitney J58 afterburner and exhaust nozzle.”
Found on Wikimedia Commons.
New Scientist has the creepy story of a parasitic worm that controls fish behavior by controlling how they see the world:
… Read the rest “Puppetmaster parasite steers fish – from inside their eyeballs.”When the parasite is young, it helps its host stay safe from predators.
Nature shines new light on a very old hominid – “Neo,” the ape-like Homo naledi who may have coexisted with early modern humans:
… Read the rest “Humans didn’t live with dinosaurs… but maybe with ape-men.”H. naledi was uncovered in the Rising
This is the head and neck of a raven, Corvus corax sinuatus, as dissected and drawn by Robert W. Shufeldt.
I look at this and am impressed by the beauty of the anatomy. Then … Read the rest “Science Art: The Myology of the Raven, 1890”
Science News shows how Mars might not have formed with the rest of solid worlds of the inner solar system:
… Read the rest “Mars might be a *really* alien planet.”Simulating the assembly of the solar system around 4.56 billion years ago, researchers
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