Now you can count them before they’re hatched.
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. […]
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 moreResearcher tucks into a CRISPR meal.
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 […]
Fracking reveals new genus of bacteria.
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 […]
Science Art: Dressing for Altitude, NASA.
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 […]
Ptiny Pterosaurs
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 […]
Mummy’s got a new face, thanks to 3D printing
Live Science takes a long look at an Egyptian mummy whose face has been reconstructed using 3D printing to turn back time: The mummified head […]
A “strong signal” has SETI excited.
Ars Technica has a cautiously not-quite-freaked-out-yet look at what radio astronomers think might well be evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization: According to Paul Glister, author […]
Science Art: Your Gifted Child frontispiece, 1958
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 […]
There’s an Earth-like planet right next door.
Howdy, neighbor! Nature sets our sights on the planet just like ours orbiting Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor: Proxima Centauri, the star closest to […]
SONG: Turn Me Back
SONG: “Turn Me Back”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “CRISPR’s hopeful monsters: gene-editing storms evo-devo labs,” Nature, 17 Aug 2016, as used in the post “Prepare to […]
So we’re shrinking animals and making them transparent. Like, in real life.
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 […]
Hawaii prepares to welcome first astronauts back from “Mars.”
Hawaii Tribune-Herald marks the anticipated end of the year-long simulated Mars mission inside an old quarry: At 8,200 feet above sea level, the landscape mimics […]
Science Art: The Life Cycle of Acetabularia mediterranea, 1960.
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 […]
Prepare to make prehistoric monsters
Nature braces for the fun in the gene labs, as CRISPR paves the way to recreate bygone creatures: The precise, efficient CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing technique has […]
Stone circle found in Seville
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: […]