This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreThis is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreThis is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreThere’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreI found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreClick to embiggen The book Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques is Alphonse Bertillon‘s guide for identifying criminal suspects. These ear dimensions were one way you […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
Science Daily reports on Swedish scientists who’ve found we can inherit “memories” of a heart attack: In the current [Uppsala University] study, the researchers examined […]
Click to embiggen Big picture, small crab. They crawl around the sea in Japan, Australia, Borneo and the Horn of Africa. This one was drawn […]
Nature reports on the Gaia space telescope’s new map that will pinpoint more than a billion objects by the time it’s done: Gaia, a space […]
Daily Sabah reports on the history-making implications of a very old, quite intact figurine found at a dig in Çatalhöyük: The statuette, measuring 17 centimeters […]
The Washington Post puzzles over a case of Zika in Utah that points to a new way for the virus to transmit itself: Until now, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Science Daily reports on the hitherto-unknown genus of germs dubbed “Frackibacter,” after its disrupted shale-oil habitat: The new genus is one of the 31 microbial […]
Click to embiggen This is an image from this NASA eBook on high-flying fashions: Although space suits, which differ from pressure suits in subtle, but […]
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 […]
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