“It’s still fricking weird”: Physicist on the creation of time crystals.
Nature describes how “dirty diamonds” (and other delights) can be used to make crystals that “pulse” without using any energy: The name sounds like a […]
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 moreChess, go… and now, a computer has beaten humans at POKER.
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 […]
We might have found some more archaic Denisovan people in China.
Science looks at skulls from Eastern China that appear to be the remains of the little-known Denisovan prehistoric people: Since their discovery in 2010, the […]
Science Art: Saturated Hydro-Carbon, by B.E. Pike, 1947
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 […]
Looking inside our galaxy’s biggest black hole
Science reports on the telescope that hopes to see the event horizon of the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way: Next […]
American sharks are recovering (in the Atlantic, at least).
Eurekalert has good news from the southeastern Atlantic. Shark populations are getting back to where they should be for a healthy ocean: Scientists estimate that […]
Is this one, long neuron where consciousness comes from?
Nature reports on the discovery of a single, brain-encircling “crown of thorns” neuron that might be the seat of consciousness: Christof Koch, president of the […]
Science Art: Dinner in the Mould of the Iguanodon, by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1854.
A paleontological dinner party, as drawn by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, the sculptor who also made the dining accommodations – an Iguanodon. Nowadays, we know (or […]
SONG: Glassy Carbon Rods
SONG: “Glassy Carbon Rods.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Big improvement to brain-computer interface,” Science Daily, 17 Feb 2017, as used in the post “Brain-electronics just got better.” […]
Hidden labyrinths in Denmark, dating back to the Stone Age.
Science Nordic reports on the mysteries of enormous Stone-Age circles found in Denmark: One of the latest additions is a huge construction, discovered by archaeologists […]
Science Art: Veins in the Region of the Temple, 1875
A profile of a profile, from Studies in the Facial Region by Harrison Allen. [via nemfrog]
Brain-electronics just got better
Science Daily reports on “glassy carbon electrodes,” a breakthrough in the interfaces that connect computers to our brains: The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) […]
MRI scan predicts autism with 80% accuracy.
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 […]
Ancient pottery reveals the past of Earth’s magnetic field.
NPR has more on how potters inadvertently preserved a record of Earth’s magnetic field 3,000 years ago: About 3,000 years ago, a potter near Jerusalem […]
Science Art: The Albatross Dredging, 1883.
This is the science vessel Albatross, a steamship custom-built for the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, what’s now the NOAA National Marine Fisheries […]