SONG: “Electric Wind”
SONG: “Electric Wind”.
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SOURCE: “Water on Venus was stripped away by ‘electric wind’,” Wired, 21 June 2016, as used in the post “… Read the rest “SONG: “Electric Wind””
Science Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreScience Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton
This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreScience Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreScience Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.
This 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
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreScience Art: Mars - Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read more Microbes that feed on electricity
Quanta Magazine introduces us to little creatures that use electricity as food:
… Read the rest “Microbes that feed on electricity”The electricity-eating microbes that the researchers were hunting for belong to a larger class of organisms
The electric wind left Venus without water or air.
Wired has more on how Venus was left a waterless desert due to the “wind” of charged particles from the Sun:
… Read the rest “The electric wind left Venus without water or air.”Venus is one of the most Earth-like planets in our solar system in terms
3D printers make a methane-eating plastic… that excretes fuel.
Science Daily has more on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers who have 3D-printed a polymer that turns methane to methanol:
… Read the rest “3D printers make a methane-eating plastic… that excretes fuel.”Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Science Art: Philips H7 headlamp . Mo-cover filament polycrystals, by Ivan.V.Nemtsev
This is the filament of a headlight – a halogen bulb you put in the front end of your car, one of these – as seen many times its proper size under an electron microscope.
Tiny little… Read the rest “Science Art: Philips H7 headlamp . Mo-cover filament polycrystals, by Ivan.V.Nemtsev”
Team Rainbow Power finds Denmark’s largest trove of Viking gold.
Denmark’s The Local reports on three plucky archaeologists who (apparently) have made a historic find of Viking treasure in Jutland:
… Read the rest “Team Rainbow Power finds Denmark’s largest trove of Viking gold.”The three archaeologists, who call themselves
Eastern cougar: Extinct, officially.
The CBC – and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – are confirming what scientists have suspected for a long time… that the Eastern cougar subspecies can be taken off the… Read the rest “Eastern cougar: Extinct, officially.”
France – *France* – will save us all from the next killer asteroid.
Oh, yes. Nature tries to downplay it, but it’s the French who have launched an unprecedented meteor-spotting network to scan the skies:
… Read the rest “France – *France* – will save us all from the next killer asteroid.”By the end of this year, some 100 cameras will
Lasers find lost Cambodian empire
Guardian reports on multiple medieval Cambodian cities that had been forgotten – evidence of an entire lost empire just discovered via LIDAR scans:
… Read the rest “Lasers find lost Cambodian empire”The Australian archaeologist
Science Art: An early map of the planet Mars, by Richard A. Proctor, 1867.
A map of the planet Mars by astronomer Richard A. Proctor. The names we use for features on Mars nowadays come from Giovanni Schiaparelli – like what we call “Syrtis Major Planum,”… Read the rest “Science Art: An early map of the planet Mars, by Richard A. Proctor, 1867.”
Listening to the music of the oldest stars.
Sci-News turns an ear to the heavens to learn about the oldest stars in the Milky Way – by listening to their acoustic oscillations:
… Read the rest “Listening to the music of the oldest stars.”The team, led by Dr. Andrea Miglio from the University
Apollo’s Hydromancer
Ha’aretz reports on the oldest oracle to Apollo found in Athens – a place where a sacred seer drew water from a well to divine the future:
… Read the rest “Apollo’s Hydromancer”The Athenians built wells along the course
Leaping Electric Eels!
Science Daily reports on a not-terrifying-at-all accidental discovery, that electric eels are perfectly capable of jumping out of the water to deliver a lethal dose of electricity when… Read the rest “Leaping Electric Eels!”
Science Art: Inside the Spacecraft During Gemini V Flight, by L. Gordon Cooper/NASA
Here’s astronaut Charles Conrad Jr. as snapped by mission commander L. Gordon Cooper Jr., the “Gordo” from The Right Stuff, if you remember him. This… Read the rest “Science Art: Inside the Spacecraft During Gemini V Flight, by L. Gordon Cooper/NASA”
Prisoners used in *data-harvesting* experiment.
Their tattoos, specifically, according to this piece in Motherboard. The FBI teamed up with the National Institute for Standards and Technology to create a database for software that… Read the rest “Prisoners used in *data-harvesting* experiment.”