Insect biobots are ready to respond to disasters.
Science Daily reports on the cybernetic insects that can be used alongside drones to quickly map out unfamiliar terrain: “The idea would be to release […]
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 moreYoung people’s blood plasma rejuvenates old mice.
New Scientist has an anti-aging discovery with some grisly ramifications, as researchers find the blood of human teens can make aging bodies young again: The […]
China’s used CRISPR in human subjects, to treat cancer.
Nature reports on gene-editing technology that’s being used for the first time in human beings: On 28 October, a team led by oncologist Lu You […]
Spain’s “King of Coal” jailed for destroying Neolithic site.
The 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 against heritage”: The […]
Science Art: 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel, 1990
Click to embiggen This might look like a jet plane’s engine, but it’s really a thing to test jet planes – supersonic ones. It’s a […]
GMO mosquitoes will fly. Probably.
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 […]
So ISIS is using homemade drones. Here’s how they work.
Popular Science looks at the the backyard engineering that goes into an effective homemade military drone: To better understand ISIS drones, I spoke with an […]
Science Art: Schéma de montage d’un turbopropulseur by Nerijp
This is a turbine – a “turbopropulseur” – used as an example of a “réducteur” – a reducing gear. The one end spins a lot […]
World Power: How Africa can leapfrog the world with renewable energy.
Nature looks into the future of Africa and sees a sunny outlook – at least as far as solar and wind power generation go: Africa’s […]
Caveman jewelry: Ostrich eggs in Siberia?
Siberian Times looks at the things that people thought were precious before people were Homo sapiens – a trove of Denisovan jewelry made from such […]
Florida Keys voting on genetically-modified mosquito plan.
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: […]
Science Art: Trilobites (Sketch Pad), by Manchestersciart
Click to embiggen Prehistoric life, today’s exercises. From Life in Retrograde, via ScientificIllustration.tumblr.com.
“This misshapen pebble is actually the first ever dinosaur brain fossil ever found.”
Vox takes a close look at a fossilized iguanodon brain: On a dark winter night in 2004, Jamie Hiscocks spotted an odd-shaped stone on a […]
Zika is an American disease now.
NPR reports that the mosquito-borne illness is probably here to stay: So far, local officials in Miami have successfully cleared just one zone of local […]
A robot truck just drove beer between cities.
The Verge reports on Uber’s first real-live self-driving truck shipment, hauling Budweiser from Loveland, Colorado, to Colorado Springs: The truck — a Volvo big rig […]