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.)
ARTIST: grant.
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 moreBBC has the final outcome of the Boaty McBoatface saga – the research vessel will be named after documentarist Sir David Attenborough, but will have a very special remote submersible… Read the rest “David Attenborough… and Subby McSubface”
Nature has followed history’s longest-cultured human embryos:
… Read the rest “Human embryos grown for two weeks in lab.”Developmental biologists have grown human embryos in the lab for up to 13 days after fertilization, shattering
Long-time science journalist Joe Palca (NPR, Science, Nature) will be answering questions at a Reddit AMA around 1pm today.
If you’ve got a question you need to have answered about… Read the rest “Go ask Joe Palca a question.”
Reuters reports on the goal being set for the world to see – one of China’s top space officials says they’ll put a human on the moon by 2036:
… Read the rest “China’s going to land a person on the moon.”China must “raise its
It’s Beltane today, May Day, a day traditionally celebrated with bonfires. Here are some smaller flames, but no less fiery.
This is a photo illustrating how, as … Read the rest “Science Art: Bunsen Burner Flame Types, by Artura Jana Fijalkowski.”
Wired investigates an organism – not even an animal, doesn’t even have internal organs or nerves, much less a brain – that still somehow learns to avoid unpleasant things… Read the rest “How can slime mold learn? But it does….”
So first, there’s a dwarf planet called Makemake. And now, says Space.com, Hubble found out that it has a moon:
… Read the rest “A new moon in the outer solar system.”Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered
Science magazine has some interesting – and rather weird – findings about the new “brain-zapping” technology that uses magnets to affect brain states. Apparently,… Read the rest “Transcranial magnetic stimulation isn’t doing what we thought.”
This is a mural at the Smithsonian Museum, showing how the Great Plains would have looked about 3 million years ago.
The critters here include Amebelodon (the elephant-lookin’… Read the rest “Science Art: Restoration of Pliocene fauna of North America, Smithsonian Museum.”
SONG: “Meat Man”.
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SOURCE: “High-Protein Diet May Have Shaped Neanderthals,” Archaeology, 30 March 2016,
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The Atlantic (the magazine, not the ocean) just located a giant reef no one knew existed near the mouth of the Amazon River:
… Read the rest “Well, *anyone* could misplace a 600-mile barrier reef! Right?”A team of Brazilian and American scientists have discovered a new
Wired (with a little help from Cassini) narrows our search for the hidden, big planet orbiting the fringes of the solar system:
… Read the rest “We’re closing in on Planet Nine. (Or X. Whatever.)”Matthew J. Holman and Matthew J. Payne of the Harvard-Smithsonian
Another BBC story, this one about a family of immune-boosting drugs that eat away melanoma in a fifth of patients:
… Read the rest “New skin-cancer combo wipes out 20% of tumors.”The first survival data on using ipilimumab and nivolumab in combination
BBC reports on the computer model that seems to explain how the monarch butterflies make their amazing Canada-to-Mexico trek:
… Read the rest “Monarch migration mystery – solved! (We think.)”Lead researcher Prof Eli Shlizerman, from the University
This is an artist’s conception of the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble. The European Space Agency is working on it, with NASA, Northrop Grumman… Read the rest “Science Art: Artist’s impression of JWST, European Space Agency, 2013”
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