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 moreScience News looks at broken bones – specifically, how modern bone breaks seem so different from the injuries we see in Neanderthal skeletons. Why should modern tree-climbing, … Read the rest “The closest we come to getting Neanderthal injuries? Water-tubing.”
Nature reveals the remains of a 130,000-year-old barbecue… that opens a controversial – and way, way older – chapter of human history in the Americas:
… Read the rest “Humans reached America 100,000 years earlier than thought.”Most scientists
This is a “more definitely suctorial mouth with horny cuticular teeth,” according to Francis Maitland Balfour, a British biologist with a particularly distinguished name… Read the rest “Science Art: Mouth of Petromyzon Marinus with its Horny Teeth,”
Science Daily listens close to baby humpback whales whispering to their mothers:
… Read the rest “Whispering baby whales.”Ecologists from Denmark and Australia used temporary tags on humpback mothers and their calves in Exmouth
This is a little “inside baseball,” but I’m as much thrilled by Open Culture‘s description of this archive as I am by the existence of the archive itself. It does… Read the rest “NASA releases 140,000 images, videos, and sounds.”
Sigh.
I’m most of the way through one, but the words didn’t fall together even after the chorus turned up.
One will follow soon, along with a penitential cover.
This is Jupiter’s watery (well, icy) moon Europa, as pieced together in realistic color from a bunch of photos taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s.… Read the rest “Science Art: PIA19048 realistic color Europa mosaic (from the Galileo mission).”
Nature is gearing up for small engines going… well, pretty fast for their size. Because these chemists are racing single-molecule nanocars:
… Read the rest “A teeny, tiny NASCAR.”Six teams from three continents are
New York Times announces how one of America’s wealthiest computer scientists makes it possible to track where your tax money *really*, really goes:
… Read the rest “Microsoft’s Ballmer sics big data on government spending.”In an age of fake news and questions
This is a diagram of how Mars appeared in the sky, as observed by Johannes Kepler (and his boss, Tycho Brahe). The question Kepler ultimately answered was why did a planet… Read the rest “Science Art: “De Motib. Stellae Martis” from Astronomia Nova aitiologetos, by Johannes Kepler, 1609.”
Science News investigates the forces at play when your shoes come untied:
… Read the rest “Why do shoelaces come untied? Physics.”Mechanical engineer Oliver O’Reilly of the University of California, Berkeley was familiar with the infuriating
NPR covers an unexpected discovery about an auto-immune condition believed to be genetic – celiac disease. You need to have the right (or the wrong) genes to come down with the gluten… Read the rest “Celiac disease – the problem with gluten – might be triggered by a virus.”
Denmark’s The Local looks at the mummified remains of a woman who was anything but local, new research has found. One of the iconic ancestors of Denmark came there from somewhere far… Read the rest “Bronze-Age Dane was an ancient immigrant.”
We’re moving on a planet that’s moving around a sun that’s moving – that way.
Not a moment of stillness anywhere.
From The Physical Sciences, Revised Edition… Read the rest “Science Art: Motion in Space, 1950”
Nature has what must be the least appetizing life-extension program yet discovered:
… Read the rest “Someone tell Peter Thiel. Consuming young fish poop makes old fish live longer.”The findings were posted to the bioRxiv.org preprint server on 27 March1 by Dario Valenzano, a geneticist
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