This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreReally, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreThe Telegraph reports on multimillionaire mine-operator Victorino Alonso’s demolition of a 10,000-year-old archaeological site, an act courts have described as a “crime… Read the rest “Spain’s “King of Coal” jailed for destroying Neolithic site.”
This might look like a jet plane’s engine, but it’s really a thing to test jet planes – supersonic ones. It’s a really big fan (with wooden blades!)… Read the rest “Science Art: 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel, 1990”
Just a short note (from a Fusion story), but one kind of overlooked story from election day is that the Florida Keys approved releasing genetically modified anti-Zika mosquitoes:
… Read the rest “GMO mosquitoes will fly. Probably.”On Tuesday,
Popular Science looks at the the backyard engineering that goes into an effective homemade military drone:
… Read the rest “So ISIS is using homemade drones. Here’s how they work.”To better understand ISIS drones, I spoke with an investigator at Conflict Armament
This is a turbine – a “turbopropulseur” – used as an example of a “réducteur” – a reducing gear. The one end spins a lot more than the other end… Read the rest “Science Art: Schéma de montage d’un turbopropulseur by Nerijp”
Nature looks into the future of Africa and sees a sunny outlook – at least as far as solar and wind power generation go:
… Read the rest “World Power: How Africa can leapfrog the world with renewable energy.”Africa’s population is booming faster than anywhere in
Siberian Times looks at the things that people thought were precious before people were Homo sapiens – a trove of Denisovan jewelry made from such exotic materials as ostrich eggshells… Read the rest “Caveman jewelry: Ostrich eggs in Siberia?”
FiveThirtyEight Science has an in-depth article on a genetic reponse to the Zika threat and the scientific stakes of ballots cast in Florida’s southernmost county:
… Read the rest “Florida Keys voting on genetically-modified mosquito plan.”This unusual
Prehistoric life, today’s exercises.
From Life in Retrograde, via ScientificIllustration.tumblr.com.
Vox takes a close look at a fossilized iguanodon brain:
… Read the rest ““This misshapen pebble is actually the first ever dinosaur brain fossil ever found.””On a dark winter night in 2004, Jamie Hiscocks spotted an odd-shaped stone on a beach by his home in Sussex, England. “I could see in my
NPR reports that the mosquito-borne illness is probably here to stay:
… Read the rest “Zika is an American disease now.”So far, local officials in Miami have successfully cleared just one zone of local Zika transmission — the Wynwood neighborhood.
The Verge reports on Uber’s first real-live self-driving truck shipment, hauling Budweiser from Loveland, Colorado, to Colorado Springs:
… Read the rest “A robot truck just drove beer between cities.”The truck — a Volvo big rig equipped with
I don’t know if this counts as surprising or not, but Science Daily details the changes your brain goes through after something as “mild” as heading a soccer ball:
… Read the rest “Heading a soccer ball changes your brain – pretty much immediately.”The
Writing an obituary. Working on a science fair project. Neither thing is easy.
Also, Linux is twisting and turning on me. I can get audio in to a recorder, but it only records *all* the audio,… Read the rest “No song today.”
NASA has published some images of Saturn’s geometrically fascinating north pole that show a new seasonal color scheme:
… Read the rest “Saturn’s “Great Hexagon” changes color with the seasons”
…Scientists are investigating potential causes
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