Science Art: Rift in Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf, by NASA/John Sonntag
Click to embiggen Big valley in the Antarctic ice. A bonus image for the New Year, from NASA’s Image Gallery, photographed a couple weeks before […]
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, …
Read moreScience Art: Mt. Balfour, Antarctica, by NASA/Joe MacGregor
Click to embiggen This photo is part of NASA’s IceBridge mission, an airborne survey of polar ice, which completed an eighth consecutive Antarctic deployment on […]
Bats have more to say than you think.
Nature delves into the surprising intricacies of bat language: Bats are noisy creatures, especially in their crowded caves, where they make calls to their neighbours. […]
10-4, bot buddy. Robot truckers join the convoy….
Popular Science brings a 1970s science-fiction dream one step closer to reality with news that Uber Freight is ready to put robot truckers on the […]
Science Art: Picea excelsa, Walter Mueller, 1886.
Click to embiggen A spruce tree, for the second day of Christmas. From Dr. Prof. Thomé’s Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz, in Wort […]
SONG: “Tiny Reindeer”
SONG: “Tiny Reindeer”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Reindeer are shrinking, because of warmer arctic temperatures ,” Science, 11 Dec 2016, as used in the post “Reindeer […]
World’s largest hedge fund set to replace management with supercomputer.
The Guardian reports on a rational, logical approach to making the big bucks… by evaluating trades (and making hiring and firing decisions) using a custom-built […]
“The Cocktail Party Effect” noise filter is revealed at last.
BBC unveils how exactly our brains are able to turn the garbled sounds of a crowded room into understandable speech: A team measured people’s brain […]
Female doctors’ patients live longer.
Heard this odd bit of medical science on Marketplace this morning. A new study of 1.5 million patients found that those treated by doctors who […]
SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)”
SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)”. ARTIST: grant (originally by Mose Allison). SOURCE: This song doesn’t have a scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for […]
Science Art: Plate 20. – Skeletons of the cross between the English bulldog and bassethound showing contrast in leg length…, 1941
My old dog was a basset. And now there’s a bulldog in my house. I’m not sure how dogs happen, but they do. This is […]
Sauna for your mental health.
Science Daily goes for a schvitz and a think with the University of Finland, where researchers have found that frequent sauna visits protect men against […]
Reindeer have been shrinking since 1994.
Science reports on a reindeer study that’s been running a lot longer than this Christmas season. Researchers in the Arctic have found that reindeer have […]
Jersey shore (the one in the English Channel) was a prehistoric tourist attraction for *millennia*.
Science Daily looks at the vacation habits of Neanderthals on Jersey: As part of a re-examination of La Cotte de St Brelade and its surrounding […]
Antarctic ice-loss: a 25-year-long look from space.
BBC has, courtesy of the Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), a quarter-century of satellite images of Antarctica showing how the ice is shrinking, […]