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 moreA train! A big ol’ train!
This image is one of many found in H.A.V. Bulleid’s Master Builders of Steam, a book about those big ol’ engines moving big ol’… Read the rest “Science Art: Longitudinal Section of “Star” Class Four-Cylinder 4-6-0, by AJ Creswell, 1963.”
Science Daily takes time out to think about our thinking parts, which are doing 10 times more thinking than we previously thought:
… Read the rest “Our brains are 10 times busier than we thought.”The research focused on the structure and function of dendrites,
Nature describes how “dirty diamonds” (and other delights) can be used to make crystals that “pulse” without using any energy:
… Read the rest ““It’s still fricking weird”: Physicist on the creation of time crystals.”The name sounds like a prop from
Scientific American prepares us for our cybernetic overlords with a machine that knows when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em… how to call a bluff and how to read a strong… Read the rest “Chess, go… and now, a computer has beaten humans at POKER.”
Science looks at skulls from Eastern China that appear to be the remains of the little-known Denisovan prehistoric people:
… Read the rest “We might have found some more archaic Denisovan people in China.”Since their discovery in 2010, the extinct ice age humans called
From The Wonderland of Science. A children’s book. From 1947.
This is what little kids were reading then.
Not that our culture is in decline or anything.
(The cover is brilliant, too.)… Read the rest “Science Art: Saturated Hydro-Carbon, by B.E. Pike, 1947”
Science reports on the telescope that hopes to see the event horizon of the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way:
… Read the rest “Looking inside our galaxy’s biggest black hole”Next month, astronomers will harness radio telescopes across the
Eurekalert has good news from the southeastern Atlantic. Shark populations are getting back to where they should be for a healthy ocean:
… Read the rest “American sharks are recovering (in the Atlantic, at least).”Scientists estimate that over-fishing of sharks
Nature reports on the discovery of a single, brain-encircling “crown of thorns” neuron that might be the seat of consciousness:
… Read the rest “Is this one, long neuron where consciousness comes from?”Christof Koch, president of the Allen Institute
A paleontological dinner party, as drawn by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, the sculptor who also made the dining accommodations – an Iguanodon. Nowadays, we know (or think we know)… Read the rest “Science Art: Dinner in the Mould of the Iguanodon, by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1854.”
SONG: “Glassy Carbon Rods.”
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SOURCE:Big improvement to brain-computer interface,” Science Daily, 17 Feb 2017, as used in the post “Brain-electronics… Read the rest “SONG: Glassy Carbon Rods”
Science Nordic reports on the mysteries of enormous Stone-Age circles found in Denmark:
… Read the rest “Hidden labyrinths in Denmark, dating back to the Stone Age.”One of the latest additions is a huge construction, discovered by archaeologists from the Museum
Science Daily reports on “glassy carbon electrodes,” a breakthrough in the interfaces that connect computers to our brains:
… Read the rest “Brain-electronics just got better”The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering
Science Daily looks at the brains of infants to see which ones have an overgrowth of the brain’s surface, which is to say, which ones are likely to develop autism within two years:
… Read the rest “MRI scan predicts autism with 80% accuracy.”“Our
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