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 moreNature (and New Scientist) have been covering the developing story about a healthy baby boy born from genetic material supplied by three parents:
… Read the rest “A three-parent baby born in Mexico.”Nature:
Researchers at the New Hope Fertility
Growing up interacting with fish called “grunts,” this doesn’t come as a huge surprise, but it’s still kind of cool. New Scientist captures the chorus of fish… Read the rest “The sun has risen, the fish are singing….”
The book Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques is Alphonse Bertillon‘s guide for identifying criminal suspects.
These ear dimensions… Read the rest “Science Art: Oreille schematique, from Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques, 1893.”
SONG: “Gaia (1,000 Times)”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Milky Way mapper: 6 ways the Gaia spacecraft will change astronomy,” Nature, 09 Sep 2016, as used in the … Read the rest “SONG: Gaia (1,000 Times)”
PhysOrg looks at three studies that suggest humans, for the most part, all came out of Africa in one migration more than 100 millennia ago:
… Read the rest “We (mostly) came out of Africa together.”The genetic ancestry of people living outside Africa
Times Higher Education reveals the machines are moving beyond physical work and simple sorting, and can now fool academic gatekeepers with their composition skills… in article… Read the rest “Robot writer fools journals’ peer-review system.”
Science Daily reports on Swedish scientists who’ve found we can inherit “memories” of a heart attack:
… Read the rest “We can inherit the memory of heart attacks.”In the current [Uppsala University] study, the researchers
Big picture, small crab.
They crawl around the sea in Japan, Australia, Borneo and the Horn of Africa.
This one was drawn in the 1880s (like one of those French girls) aboard… Read the rest “Science Art: Hyastenus convexus, from Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert’ 1881-2.”
Nature reports on the Gaia space telescope’s new map that will pinpoint more than a billion objects by the time it’s done:
… Read the rest “That’s a big map.”Gaia, a space telescope launched by the European Space
Daily Sabah reports on the history-making implications of a very old, quite intact figurine found at a dig in Çatalhöyük:
… Read the rest “Old, oooold lady figurine found (whole!) in Neolithic city.”The statuette, measuring 17 centimeters (6.7 inches) long and
The Washington Post puzzles over a case of Zika in Utah that points to a new way for the virus to transmit itself:
… Read the rest “A new way to catch Zika.”Until now, scientists have said that Zika is spread primarily through the bite
In 1960, we started planning to send rockets to Mars… and Philip Bono, a Boeing engineer and designer, started figuring out how they’d work, and how they’d look while… Read the rest “Science Art: Orbital Balloon Repair (?), by Philip Bono”
Or at least sex them. Yes, so, if you’re not up on your poultry husbandry, sexing chickens is a big thing – an enormous thing. Girl chickens grow up to lay eggs. Boy chickens –… Read the rest “Now you can count them before they’re hatched.”
Umeå University has more on their molecular biology professor, Stefan Jansson, who sat down to eat a CRISPR-modified pasta-and-veggie dinner to show off the technology’s potential… Read the rest “Researcher tucks into a CRISPR meal.”
Science Daily reports on the hitherto-unknown genus of germs dubbed “Frackibacter,” after its disrupted shale-oil habitat:
… Read the rest “Fracking reveals new genus of bacteria.”The new genus is one of the 31 microbial members
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