Science Art: Mouth of Petromyzon Marinus with its Horny Teeth,
This is a “more definitely suctorial mouth with horny cuticular teeth,” according to Francis Maitland Balfour, a British biologist with a particularly distinguished name and […]
Science Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreWhispering baby whales.
Science Daily listens close to baby humpback whales whispering to their mothers: Ecologists from Denmark and Australia used temporary tags on humpback mothers and their […]
NASA releases 140,000 images, videos, and sounds.
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 […]
No song today.
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 […]
Science Art: PIA19048 realistic color Europa mosaic (from the Galileo mission).
Click to embiggen This is Jupiter’s watery (well, icy) moon Europa, as pieced together in realistic color from a bunch of photos taken by NASA’s […]
A teeny, tiny NASCAR.
Nature is gearing up for small engines going… well, pretty fast for their size. Because these chemists are racing single-molecule nanocars: Six teams from three […]
Microsoft’s Ballmer sics big data on government spending.
New York Times announces how one of America’s wealthiest computer scientists makes it possible to track where your tax money *really*, really goes: In an […]
Science Art: “De Motib. Stellae Martis” from Astronomia Nova aitiologetos, by Johannes Kepler, 1609.
Click to embiggen This is a diagram of how Mars appeared in the sky, as observed by Johannes Kepler (and his boss, Tycho Brahe). The […]
Why do shoelaces come untied? Physics.
Science News investigates the forces at play when your shoes come untied: Mechanical engineer Oliver O’Reilly of the University of California, Berkeley was familiar with […]
Celiac disease – the problem with gluten – might be triggered by a virus.
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) […]
Bronze-Age Dane was an ancient immigrant.
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 […]
Science Art: Motion in Space, 1950
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, […]
Someone tell Peter Thiel. Consuming young fish poop makes old fish live longer.
Nature has what must be the least appetizing life-extension program yet discovered: The findings were posted to the bioRxiv.org preprint server on 27 March1 by […]
Meet the world’s largest canary.
New Scientist heads to São Tomé to get up close with the island’s grosbeak – a really big bird: Now it turns out the species […]
No, kids – don’t take your seats. Not if you want to learn….
Science of Us looks over recent research showing that schoolkids learn better when they move around in class: “Kids aren’t meant to sit still all […]