Science 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 […]
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreMars 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) […]
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 […]