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 […]
Science Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreThumb-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 […]
Living robot: mechanical stingray swims with rat-cell muscles.
Popular Mechanics describes the rat-cell engine that powers this stingray robot: “Roughly speaking, we made this thing with a pinch of rat cardiac cells, a […]
Archaeologists: This New Testament is full of pee!
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: For centuries […]
MRI Mulligan? 15 years of neuro research might just have been zapped.
Wired brings up the rather unpleasant prospect of a bug in MRI software invalidating 15 years of brain-scan results: Three of the most popular pieces […]
The Zebra Shark Madonna: Aquarium celebrates virgin birth
National Geographic describes an Australian aquarium’s wonderment at a shark that just gave birth despite being alone for three years: Aquarium keepers in Australia realized […]
Science Art: (The Wyttenbach Steam Steriliser) The book of fruit bottling, 1907.
Click to embiggen Mmm. Jelly. Jam. Apple butter. This is labeled “THE WYTTENBACH STEAM STERILISER” on on Wikimedia Commons, with some garbled dimensions. But you […]
Something worked! The ozone hole is getting better.
Nature reports that our ban on CFCs might be working because the hole in the ozone layer is shrinking: It’s the beginning of the end […]
Rosetta’s last kiss.
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 silent Philae lander: […]
They’ve just about got a vaccine for Zika.
Science Daily reports on a pretty quick turnaround for a health crisis: In a paper published today in the journal Nature, a research team led […]
Making batteries from seafood leftovers.
Hakai magazine explains how we can turn crab and lobster shells into batteries, plastics and (maybe) scaffolds for growing new organs: [Mark] MacLachlan [of the […]
Science Art: Theoria Satellitum Iovis et Saturni from Atlas Coelestis by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, 1742.
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 […]
SONG: “Electric Wind”
SONG: “Electric Wind”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Water on Venus was stripped away by ‘electric wind’,” Wired, 21 June 2016, as used in the post “The […]
Microbes that feed on electricity
Quanta Magazine introduces us to little creatures that use electricity as food: The electricity-eating microbes that the researchers were hunting for belong to a larger […]