These mice were born from skin, not eggs. And were never in a womb.
Nature reports on a new technique that has successfully converted skin cells into fertile egg cells and brought babies to term without ever implanting them […]
Science Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience Art: Belt Trick by Jason Hise
The belts always twist, but never get tangled. Geometry can be weird. If you find this hypnotic, check out what the same creator has done […]
You can’t un-boil egg. Or… hang on a minute!
Popular Science reveals a way in which you CAN un-boil an egg: When you boil an egg, the heat causes the proteins inside the egg […]
Virtually conquering Everest
Sports Illustrated is taking all of us along on a virtual-reality climb to the summit of Mt. Everest: Sports Illustrated will partner with Endemol Shine […]
Dinosaurs probably boomed instead of singing.
Science Daily looks into some really old larynxes (larynges?) with University of Texas, Austin, researchers and concludes dinosaurs, though bird-like, didn’t sing – they honked […]
“Goddess of the Yangzi” might not be extinct after all.
The Guardian has an optimistic story out of central China, with news that the baiji – the Yangzi River dolphin, one of the oldest aquatic […]
The Martian Timeshare
Nature gives us a new context for exploring Mars, with NASA landing a rugged rover or orbital observer equipped with “generic” scientific equipment so that […]
Science Art: GFS Model Forecasts Moisture over the Atlantic, Aug 2016
Click to embiggen You’d think after the week I’ve had, I’d be sick of looking at meteorological imagery. But no. This stuff is beautiful, and […]
Rescuing the seeds of Aleppo
Nature finds hope for the future in war-torn Syria, where a seed-bank dedicated to preserve our ancient plants (which could save our crops from climate […]
Dark matter is… doing something strange.
The Guardian and physicist Jon Butterworth are looking at something unexpected that the Spitzer Space Telescope has noticed. Galaxies are put together in a way […]
Re-remembering Robinson Crusoe.
Because, according to National Geographic, we didn’t remember him right the first time. Or at least we attribute a heck of a lot to the […]
Science Art: Aneroiddose für die Luftdruckkompensation des Pendels, by Sigmund Riefler
Click to embiggen Sigmund Riefler was a physicist and precision clockmaker. He also created this, a precision barometer, or, rather, a barometer connected to a […]
We spend more time with kids than our grandparents did.
Science Daily reassures us that at least we seem to be doing *something* right. This generation is spending more time with our kids than parents […]
A three-parent baby born in Mexico.
Nature (and New Scientist) have been covering the developing story about a healthy baby boy born from genetic material supplied by three parents: Nature: Researchers […]
The sun has risen, the fish are singing….
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 […]