Our first breath of air, analyzed 2.3 billion years later.
Science Daily peeks into the deep, deep history of the “Great Oxidation Event,” analyzing a very old sample of some of the first oxygen to […]
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 moreThis origami microscope costs less than a dollar – and you can magnify stuff by 2,000 times.
Popular Science shows us how to make a cheap paper microscope that really works: In the Foldscope, invented by Stanford University engineers, creased paper creates […]
Radiation clouds may sicken jet travelers.
New Scientist puts the seat backs in the full upright position with the news that there are weird “radioactive zones” in the sky our planes […]
Science Art: Cultures of a destructive mold called Phomopsis, by USDA-ARS
Click to embiggen Might look pretty in a dish, but you don’t want to find this on your crops – it’s bad news. This image, […]
Bad gut bacteria can cause high blood pressure.
Sure, it might be the salty food, but Science Daily says, based on work by the American Physiological Society, that the microbes in your intestines […]
We can build a quantum computer today. But it’ll be as big as a stadium.
Nature pores over the blueprints drawn up using today’s technology… and a $126 million budget… for the next big step in computing power: “Yes it […]
All mouth, no butt: Scientists find the ancestor of all vertebrates (like us).
BBC has an up-close look at the tiny, primitive face of the great-great-great-great-etc. grandaddy of anything with a backbone: They say that fossilised traces of […]
Science Art: Fig 172 – Results of Dr. Fulton’s Drift-Bottle Experiments in the North Sea, 1912.
Click to embiggen This is a map of something invisible – ocean currents – made indirectly – by releasing messages in bottles and seeing where […]
Engraved Gems of Ancient Kuwait
CPH Post Online reveals the discovery, by Moesgaard Museum scientists, of 3,500-year-old treasure in Kuwait: Danish archaeologists have been working on the tiny island of […]
In the days of Transylvania’s flying T. rexes….
New Scientist introduces us to a fearsome creature (thankfully no longer among us) that ruled the prehistoric Romanian skies like a flying tyrannosaur: New fossils […]
Government research bodies are going dark.
That’s in the “radio silence” sense, not in the sense of “shuttering their windows” or “turning bleak.” Not yet, anyway. Buzzfeed reported today the United […]
SONG: By Numbers
SONG: “By Numbers.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Germany to probe Nazi-era medical science,” Science, 5 Jan 2017, as used in the post “Scientists start identifying the brains […]
MASSIVE botnet army discovered on Twitter… just… sitting there.
Technology Review reports on a veritable horde of fake accounts – a network of 350,000 users – that have been ready to parrot messages en […]
Science Art: Lancashire Boiler with Galloway Tubes, 1898
Click to embiggen slightly From The Colliery Manager’s Handbook … Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, an 1898 book in the British Library’s public domain collection. […]
Finding life on Wolf 1061
Science Daily follows astronomers who have found a planet 14 light-years away that’s in just the right spot – the “Goldilocks zone” around its star […]