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 moreScience Daily reveals how a century-old spectrographic analysis is probably the first ever evidence of an alien planetary system:
… Read the rest “New astronomy from old sources: Planetary system found in a photographic plate from 1917.”bout a year ago, the review’s author, Jay Farihi
University of Washington undergrads have won $10,000 for designing gloves that translate sign language into text or speech:
… Read the rest “These gloves translate sign language.”The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is a nationwide search for
New Scientist expands upon the company that just sent an inflatable room to the ISS… and what they’d like to do next:
… Read the rest “Inflatable space station could orbit by 2020.”Bigelow Aerospace, which just sent an inflatable room to
Nature has more on the (non-viable) human embryos that were modified to resist HIV before being destroyed:
… Read the rest “Chinese researchers edit genes in human embryos – again.”Researchers in China have reported editing the genes of human embryos to try to
Spice.
In watercolor.
It looks like it would smell delicious.
From 40 Drawings of Plants at Bencoolen, Sumatra, a collection of natural history paintings done by Chinese… Read the rest “Science Art: Nutmeg Tree, from 40 drawings of plants at Bencoolen, Sumatra, c.1824.”
Science has the convoluted story of the prostate-cancer drug that lowers testosterone levels enough that people are willing to try it as a cure for pedophilic impulses, with the help of … Read the rest “Prostate drug tested as pedophilia treatment… in crowd-funded experiment.”
Science Daily has our bases covered with the invention of photoelectric cells that create power from sunlight, and the motion of falling rain:
… Read the rest “Solar cells that generate power from *rain*, too.”For the conversion of solar energy to electricity,
Discovery News has the painful truth on the braided copper whip:
… Read the rest “Metal whip for self-flagellating monks during Black Death: Go ahead, beat yourself up over it.”Found in 2014 at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire, the braided-together length of copper wire, turned to be part of a whip
Archaeology thinks a paleo-version of the Atkins Diet made Neanderthals squat and wide-bodied:
… Read the rest “Protein Diet Shaped Neanderthals”“During harsh Ice-Age winters, carbohydrates were scarce and fat was in limited supply.
Readers of a certain age will remember these waveforms – not by looking at them, but by sound. This is what data looked like as transmitted by a 4800-baud modem.
It’s kind of funny… Read the rest “Science Art: HAPN-T 4800 Baud Modem, 1991.”
Science Daily shows off a new medical device that grows new human parts in whatever shape you can draw them:
… Read the rest “No foolin’: this pen “writes” in stem cells. It can draw new body parts.”In a landmark proof-of-concept experiment, Australian researchers have used
Nature reveals new evidence that shows Homo floresiensis is way older than we thought – and may well have been driven to extinction by modern humans:
… Read the rest “We probably drove hobbits to extinction.”After researchers discovered
Science Daily tracks where (and when) the first modern humans made babies with Denisovans and Neanderthals:
… Read the rest “Ancient human hanky-panky mapped out.”Most non-Africans possess at least a little bit Neanderthal DNA. But a new map
Double check all your eggs – just in case.
Happy Easter!
The handsome couple in the image came from North American parasitic copepods belonging to the family Caligidae… Read the rest “Science Art: The Male and Female of Caligus centrodonti.”
Discover reports on unanticipated consequences of antidepressants getting into the water and changing animal behavior:
… Read the rest “Prozac is making fish… different.”[Teresa] Dzieweczynski, a psychologist at the University of
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