Inflatable space station could orbit by 2020.
New Scientist expands upon the company that just sent an inflatable room to the ISS… and what they’d like to do next: Bigelow Aerospace, which […]
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 moreChinese researchers edit genes in human embryos – again.
Nature has more on the (non-viable) human embryos that were modified to resist HIV before being destroyed: Researchers in China have reported editing the genes […]
Science Art: Nutmeg Tree, from 40 drawings of plants at Bencoolen, Sumatra, c.1824.
Click to embiggen Spice. In watercolor. It looks like it would smell delicious. From 40 Drawings of Plants at Bencoolen, Sumatra, a collection of natural […]
Prostate drug tested as pedophilia treatment… in crowd-funded experiment.
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 […]
Solar cells that generate power from *rain*, too.
Science Daily has our bases covered with the invention of photoelectric cells that create power from sunlight, and the motion of falling rain: For the […]
Metal whip for self-flagellating monks during Black Death: Go ahead, beat yourself up over it.
Discovery News has the painful truth on the braided copper whip: Found in 2014 at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire, the braided-together length of copper wire, turned […]
Protein Diet Shaped Neanderthals
Archaeology thinks a paleo-version of the Atkins Diet made Neanderthals squat and wide-bodied: “During harsh Ice-Age winters, carbohydrates were scarce and fat was in limited […]
Science Art: HAPN-T 4800 Baud Modem, 1991.
Readers of a certain age will remember these waveforms – not by looking at them, but by sound. This is what data looked like as […]
No foolin’: this pen “writes” in stem cells. It can draw new body parts.
Science Daily shows off a new medical device that grows new human parts in whatever shape you can draw them: In a landmark proof-of-concept experiment, […]
We probably drove hobbits to extinction.
Nature reveals new evidence that shows Homo floresiensis is way older than we thought – and may well have been driven to extinction by modern […]
Ancient human hanky-panky mapped out.
Science Daily tracks where (and when) the first modern humans made babies with Denisovans and Neanderthals: Most non-Africans possess at least a little bit Neanderthal […]
Science Art: The Male and Female of Caligus centrodonti.
Click to embiggen Double check all your eggs – just in case. Happy Easter! The handsome couple in the image came from North American parasitic […]
Prozac is making fish… different.
Discover reports on unanticipated consequences of antidepressants getting into the water and changing animal behavior: [Teresa] Dzieweczynski, a psychologist at the University of New England, […]
SONG: “Not a Pony.”
SONG: “Not a Pony”. ARTIST: grant, featuring Enok Webb. SOURCE: “Horse-sized tyrannosaur may be long-sought missing link in T.rex evolution,” Washington Post, March 14, 2016, […]
SONG: “Atomic Number” (a penitential cover)
SONG: “Atomic Number”. ARTIST: grant. (Originally by case/lang/veirs.) SOURCE: This doesn’t have a research source. It’s a penitential cover of a new song by case/lang/veirs, […]