Heading a soccer ball changes your brain – pretty much immediately.
I don’t know if this counts as surprising or not, but Science Daily details the changes your brain goes through after something as “mild” as […]
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 moreNo song today.
Writing an obituary. Working on a science fair project. Neither thing is easy. Also, Linux is twisting and turning on me. I can get audio […]
Saturn’s “Great Hexagon” changes color with the seasons
NASA has published some images of Saturn’s geometrically fascinating north pole that show a new seasonal color scheme: …Scientists are investigating potential causes for the […]
Virus pirates black widow venom, uses it as weapon
New Scientist reports on some information-age piracy taking place in the microscopic realm, where viruses seem to have hijacked spider venom to attack bacteria: Viruses […]
The Rat Snacks of Skara Brae.
PhysOrg gives us a new perspective on rat remains found in 5,000-year-old settlements. They weren’t eating our scraps – we were eating *them*: The new […]
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: 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 […]