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 moreI try to avoid politics, but the science behind this is really kind of fascinating. Over at Variance Explained, David Robinson used a bunch of data-mining tools – including a technique… Read the rest “Data analysts figure out Trump tweets: politics, technology, “angry” words and hashtags.”
Reuters tells the story behind the one-time spy airship entering civilian service as “the flying bum”:
… Read the rest “The world’s most embarrassingly shaped airship is debuting in England.”The Airlander 10, known in Britain as ‘the flying bum’
Nature goes out to the country to track the spread of TB (an unpleasant and expensive disease) by looking at how badgers meet cows… or really really don’t:
… Read the rest “Scientists track elusive badger-cow encounters.”Since 2013, the UK’s
These are the feet of prehistoric humans – little feet of children, big feet of adults. Actually, it’s an infographic based on a photograph based on rather well-preserved … Read the rest “Science Art: Vertical Image of Area A at Happisburgh, from “Hominin Footprints from Early Pleistocene Deposits at Happisburgh, UK,” 2014.”
PhysOrg is offering a tub of hot, buttered aesthetic vindication with its survey revealing that high education correlates with a love for awful movies:
… Read the rest “Highly educated audiences prefer trash films.”However, with three sequels and
The Verge has some photos of – and the story behind – the new, tunnel-like city bus that cars can drive under in traffic:
… Read the rest “There’s a tunnel-bus driving the streets of China.”According to China’s Xinhua News, the TEB-1, or Transit
Scientific American (and notable author Rowan Jacobsen) reports on the dry, dry nation of Israel creating a water surplus by making the sea drinkable:
… Read the rest “Drinking the ocean.”Desal works by pushing saltwater
This is a cartoon – a *funny* cartoon from about a hundred years before smartphones became a thing.
We knew what they would do to us. Even then, we knew.
It was published… Read the rest “Science Art: Forecasts for 1907, Punch Magazine, 1906.”
Nature fearlessly plunges into our nostrils in search of bacteria that can kill MRSA:
… Read the rest “A superbug antibiotic… that comes out of our noses?”The potential new soldier in the fight against MRSA is a molecule called lugdunin produced by the bacterium
Miami Herald reports on some hope for an endangered species – the first known leatherback nest (with hatchlings!) found in the Florida Keys:
… Read the rest “Leatherbacks get around. Now, they’ve found a new beach.”The nest is at Bahia Honda State Park at
Nature reports on another genetic revolution that’s, um, brewing in Belgium, where DNA researchers are tweaking yeast to make better beer:
… Read the rest “Beer geneticists.”Kevin Verstrepen’s lab meetings can
CBC News reports on the pioneering work (and maybe friendly rivalry) being used to cure lung cancer with edited genes:
… Read the rest “Two teams of scientists are using CRISPR on humans.”[F]or scientists like Jason Moffat, at the University of Toronto,
I’m not sure exactly what this is a map of (other than Glen Tilt, Tayside), because there’s not much information on the USGS page where I found it.
It’s got a lovely geometry,… Read the rest “Science Art: Map, Glen Tilt, Tayside, by James Hutton”
SONG: “Cells, Sensors, Silicon”.
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SOURCE: “This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells,” Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2016,… Read the rest “SONG: Cells, Sensors, Silicon”
Nature looks high and low at the way clouds have changed since the 1980s – as global-warming models predicted:
… Read the rest “Clouds are gathering. In a weird way. At the poles.”An analysis of satellite data has found that, since the early 1980s,
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