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 […]
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, …
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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 […]
New way for antidepressants to work.
Science Daily reveals a new molecular pathway the brain uses to regulate anxiety and depression – a discovery that opens the door for a new […]
Life… finds a way. With a self-impregnating leopard shark.
New Scientist covers a shark who managed to make babies despite being separated from any males: Leonie the zebra shark (Stegostoma fasciatum) met her male […]
Science Art: Weedy Seadragon by Cristina Pérez Boix
Click to embiggen vastly Not your average seahorse. They’re pretty cool. And totally real! Not made up or anything!
The first galaxies burned with green fire.
Science News didn’t get so poetic with their headline, but it amounts to the same thing. A team of astronomers has found a blaze of […]
This homemade toy saves lives.
Nature shows how one of the simplest toys out there – a loop of string with a spinning bit of paper in the middle – […]
Newer, easier way to capture carbon from the atmosphere
Science Daily reveals a simpler, cheaper way to get excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere – by converting it to carbon crystals: Scientists at […]
Science Art: Mammiferes, Pl. 3, from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, 1849
Click to embiggen Behold, the seat of consciousness and feeling. Maybe not the source, but the seat. From Charles Dessalines D’Orbigny’s Universal Dictionary of Natural […]
Scientists start identifying the brains taken by Nazi researchers.
Science magazine reports on a new mission for German scientists, who are working to identify the human remains stored for study by Nazi euthanasia centers: […]
Mysterious new go champion revealed to be an AI.
Nature reports on the latest surprise to come out of the DeepMind project, who just revealed one of their programs as the anonymous master who’s […]
You can now 3D-print a sonic tractor beam.
Science Daily brings us one step closer to a sci-fi tomorrow with researchers publishing open-source directions on making a tractor beam at home: Last year […]