There’s a tunnel-bus driving the streets of China.
The Verge has some photos of – and the story behind – the new, tunnel-like city bus that cars can drive under in traffic: According […]
Science 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 moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreDrinking the ocean.
Scientific American (and notable author Rowan Jacobsen) reports on the dry, dry nation of Israel creating a water surplus by making the sea drinkable: Desal […]
Science Art: Forecasts for 1907, Punch Magazine, 1906.
Click to embiggen This is a cartoon – a *funny* cartoon from about a hundred years before smartphones became a thing. We knew what they […]
A superbug antibiotic… that comes out of our noses?
Nature fearlessly plunges into our nostrils in search of bacteria that can kill MRSA: The potential new soldier in the fight against MRSA is a […]
Leatherbacks get around. Now, they’ve found a new beach.
Miami Herald reports on some hope for an endangered species – the first known leatherback nest (with hatchlings!) found in the Florida Keys: The nest […]
Beer geneticists.
Nature reports on another genetic revolution that’s, um, brewing in Belgium, where DNA researchers are tweaking yeast to make better beer: Kevin Verstrepen’s lab meetings […]
Two teams of scientists are using CRISPR on humans.
CBC News reports on the pioneering work (and maybe friendly rivalry) being used to cure lung cancer with edited genes: [F]or scientists like Jason Moffat, […]
Science Art: Map, Glen Tilt, Tayside, by James Hutton
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 […]
SONG: Cells, Sensors, Silicon
SONG: “Cells, Sensors, Silicon”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells,” Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2016, as used […]
Clouds are gathering. In a weird way. At the poles.
Nature looks high and low at the way clouds have changed since the 1980s – as global-warming models predicted: An analysis of satellite data has […]
Science Art: Woodcut: H. Regius proving spirits in the slug, in flask, 1654.
Click to embiggen This is a slug in a bottle. To be more specific, it’s “Illustrations of the experiments of H. Regius to prove the […]
Bacteria movement could power tiny machines.
Wired is thinking big about something much, much smaller than a hamster in a wheel – powering microscopic machines with “bacterial windfarms”: The natural movement […]
Cemetery find reveals Philistine secrets.
National Geographic discusses how a dig at Ashkelon, in southern Israel, might unravel who the Philistines really were – and how they might be related […]
Thumb-sucking and nail-biting gives kids allergy resistance.
Science Daily reveals the hidden health benefits of sucking your thumb and biting your nails: The researchers [of New Zealand’s Dunedin School of Medicine, assisted […]
Science Art: Clash of the Triassic Titans: Phytosaur vs. Rauisuchian, by Julio Lacerda.
Click to embiggen This is a recreation of a weird ecosystem – one without any beef, basically. The Chinle formation, a primordial swamp in what […]