This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreThis is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreThis is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreThis is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreThis is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreClick to embiggen Astronaut and astronaut nurse, getting ready to stick another metaphorical toe into the metaphorical water of the eternal icy void of space, […]
Not that anything’s trying to get out. No, Live Science wouldn’t want us to panic needlessly over a gigantic crevice yawning wide across shrinking ice-fields […]
Nature salutes the gene-sequencing of the 10,600-year-old Spirit Cave Man – and his return to what we now know are his descendants, the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone […]
Science Daily looks at the neurons that rev up and those that spin down when different parts of your brain are used – a trick […]
Click to embiggen Look up just right, and this is what you’ll see. From the “Sun In Time” page of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Atmospheric […]
Nature seems awfully optimistic about a program for recycling and processing “e-waste” in the Holy Land: Electronics are dismantled in nearby villages as part of […]
Scientific American is looking at what exactly the Tennessee wildfires might mean for our changing planet: A prolonged drought that has engulfed much of the […]
Nature reports on a critter in Iceland’s hot springs that binds silicon to carbon – which could lead to all sorts of weird breakthroughs: Researchers […]
Click to embiggen Someone went to the museum today. This has always been one of my favorite bits of human anatomy, the spirals inside our […]
This cover came out in March this year, celebrating the anniversary of New Order’s 1983 hit. The idea was to remake the groundbreaking electronic song […]
SONG: “Blood is Family”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Small Island, Big Experiment,” FiveThirtyEight Science, Oct 2016, as used in the post “Florida Keys voting on genetically-modified […]
Popular Mechanics celebrates a plan to turn the nuclear disaster zone into a 1-gigawatt solar farm: The high levels of radiation make the zone unsuitable […]
Live Science looks over thousands of inscriptions from 2,000 years ago, opening a window to a time when this arid, sandy landscape was once filled […]
Aren’t they the cutest little things? These are kinds of Euglena, the weird little microscopic critters that are animals with plant-like characteristics – some of […]
Washington Post checks the results from a NYU researcher’s experiment using bots to prevent racial harassment on Twitter – and what automated anti-racism says about […]
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