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.)
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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 moreThis is an image from this NASA eBook on high-flying fashions:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Dressing for Altitude, NASA.”Although space suits, which differ from pressure suits in subtle, but important ways, have been well covered
Nature introduces a little guy who’s upending the way we think about the age of dinosaurs… a time when pterosaurs ruled the skies with 10-meter wingspans. Well, except there… Read the rest “Ptiny Pterosaurs”
Live Science takes a long look at an Egyptian mummy whose face has been reconstructed using 3D printing to turn back time:
… Read the rest “Mummy’s got a new face, thanks to 3D printing”The mummified head was discovered by accident in the collections
Ars Technica has a cautiously not-quite-freaked-out-yet look at what radio astronomers think might well be evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization:
… Read the rest “A “strong signal” has SETI excited.”According to Paul Glister,
This is how parents in the 50s were expected to conceptualize their bright, nonconformist children – as happy, well-groomed chemists.
Then the 60s happened.
From a helpful, U.S.… Read the rest “Science Art: Your Gifted Child frontispiece, 1958”
Howdy, neighbor! Nature sets our sights on the planet just like ours orbiting Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor:
… Read the rest “There’s an Earth-like planet right next door.”Proxima Centauri, the star closest to the Sun, has an Earth-sized
SONG: “Turn Me Back”.
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SOURCE: “CRISPR’s hopeful monsters: gene-editing storms evo-devo labs,” Nature, 17 Aug 2016, as used in the post… Read the rest “SONG: Turn Me Back”
Nature Methods has the details on a process that seems totally like 1950s B-movie technology with a 1970s sci-fi name – a system called “ultimate DISCO” to prepare mice… Read the rest “So we’re shrinking animals and making them transparent. Like, in real life.”
Hawaii Tribune-Herald marks the anticipated end of the year-long simulated Mars mission inside an old quarry:
… Read the rest “Hawaii prepares to welcome first astronauts back from “Mars.””At 8,200 feet above sea level, the landscape mimics Martian soil somewhat,
This is how an alga (that’s how it’s spelled in the book) reproduces. It looks like an underwater nasturtium.
Here, it’s being used to demonstrate what exactly RNA is… Read the rest “Science Art: The Life Cycle of Acetabularia mediterranea, 1960.”
Nature braces for the fun in the gene labs, as CRISPR paves the way to recreate bygone creatures:
… Read the rest “Prepare to make prehistoric monsters”The precise, efficient CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing technique has already taken life-sciences
Xinhua reports on the discovery of a Spanish henge – concentric circles of stones probably assembled to define a ritual space about 4,500 years ago:
… Read the rest “Stone circle found in Seville”The discovery covers an area of
Nature examines the recent increase the availability of pot to American researchers:
… Read the rest “America pushes pot to researchers. (And it’s a good thing.)”[D]espite the increasing availability of legal marijuana, scientists have been forced to obtain
Fish, in families. Fish, in schools.
These are all ray-finned fishes, on a chart showing how they became more diverse from the Devonian period (when oceans were the “in” places… Read the rest “Science Art: Patterns of taxonomic and morphological diversification in early ray-finned fishes, M. Friedman.”
It was 1744, Nature reports, when this sleepy, small-headed Somniosus microcephalus … when this long-swimming, short-sighted Greenland shark came into the world – if not… Read the rest “This shark is older than the United States.”
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