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 a slug in a bottle.
To be more specific, it’s “Illustrations of the experiments of H. Regius to prove the circulation of the animal spirits in the slug.… Read the rest “Science Art: Woodcut: H. Regius proving spirits in the slug, in flask, 1654.”
Wired is thinking big about something much, much smaller than a hamster in a wheel – powering microscopic machines with “bacterial windfarms”:
… Read the rest “Bacteria movement could power tiny machines.”The natural movement
National Geographic discusses how a dig at Ashkelon, in southern Israel, might unravel who the Philistines really were – and how they might be related to the mysterious reavers known… Read the rest “Cemetery find reveals Philistine secrets.”
Science Daily reveals the hidden health benefits of sucking your thumb and biting your nails:
… Read the rest “Thumb-sucking and nail-biting gives kids allergy resistance.”The researchers [of New Zealand’s Dunedin School of Medicine, assisted by professor
This is a recreation of a weird ecosystem – one without any beef, basically. The Chinle formation, a primordial swamp in what is now New Mexico, didn’t have… Read the rest “Science Art: Clash of the Triassic Titans: Phytosaur vs. Rauisuchian, by Julio Lacerda.”
Popular Mechanics describes the rat-cell engine that powers this stingray robot:
… Read the rest “Living robot: mechanical stingray swims with rat-cell muscles.”“Roughly speaking, we made this thing with a pinch of rat cardiac cells, a pinch of breast implant,
Live Science has more on the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, a 1,500-year-old, purple-paged book that seems to have been dyed with fermented, boiled urine:
… Read the rest “Archaeologists: This New Testament is full of pee!”For centuries scholars wondered
Wired brings up the rather unpleasant prospect of a bug in MRI software invalidating 15 years of brain-scan results:
… Read the rest “MRI Mulligan? 15 years of neuro research might just have been zapped.”Three of the most popular pieces of software for fMRI – SPM, FSL and AFNI
National Geographic describes an Australian aquarium’s wonderment at a shark that just gave birth despite being alone for three years:
… Read the rest “The Zebra Shark Madonna: Aquarium celebrates virgin birth”Aquarium keepers in Australia realized
Mmm. Jelly. Jam. Apple butter.
This is labeled “THE WYTTENBACH STEAM STERILISER” on on Wikimedia Commons, with some garbled dimensions. But you can tell… Read the rest “Science Art: (The Wyttenbach Steam Steriliser) The book of fruit bottling, 1907.”
Nature reports that our ban on CFCs might be working because the hole in the ozone layer is shrinking:
… Read the rest “Something worked! The ozone hole is getting better.”It’s the beginning of the end for the Antarctic ozone hole. A new analysis shows
Reuters waxes poetic with their description of ESA’s Rosetta space probe giving comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko one “final kiss” before crash landing near the … Read the rest “Rosetta’s last kiss.”
Science Daily reports on a pretty quick turnaround for a health crisis:
… Read the rest “They’ve just about got a vaccine for Zika.”In a paper published today in the journal Nature, a research team led by scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Hakai magazine explains how we can turn crab and lobster shells into batteries, plastics and (maybe) scaffolds for growing new organs:
… Read the rest “Making batteries from seafood leftovers.”[Mark] MacLachlan [of the University of British
A geometry of the heavens (specifically the moons of Jupiter and Saturn0, as envisioned by mathematician, astronomer, and mapmaker Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, a German who also spoke … Read the rest “Science Art: Theoria Satellitum Iovis et Saturni from Atlas Coelestis by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, 1742.”
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