Humans didn’t live with dinosaurs… but maybe with ape-men.
Nature shines new light on a very old hominid – “Neo,” the ape-like Homo naledi who may have coexisted with early modern humans: H. naledi […]
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 moreScience Art: The Myology of the Raven, 1890
Click to embiggen This is the head and neck of a raven, Corvus corax sinuatus, as dissected and drawn by Robert W. Shufeldt. I look […]
Mars might be a *really* alien planet.
Science News shows how Mars might not have formed with the rest of solid worlds of the inner solar system: Simulating the assembly of the […]
The closest we come to getting Neanderthal injuries? Water-tubing.
Science News looks at broken bones – specifically, how modern bone breaks seem so different from the injuries we see in Neanderthal skeletons. Why should […]
Humans reached America 100,000 years earlier than thought.
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: […]
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 […]
Whispering 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) […]