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 moreThis is a big horn for making big noise. It’s the way the European Space Agency tests how satellites stand up to the noise of a rocket launch… which, of course,… Read the rest “Science Art: LEAF Sound Horn, by ESA – A. Le Floc’h”
Stat goes to the front-line laboratories in French Polynesia, where scientists are beating back mosquitos in revolutionary ways:
… Read the rest “At Marlon Brando’s island, the war on mosquitos is being won.”Hervé Bossin and his team have released more than 1 million
The Atlantic investigates the social movement behind America’s recent surprise win at the international Math Olympiad:
… Read the rest “Why are American kids getting so good at higher math?”You wouldn’t see it in most classrooms, you wouldn’t know
Washington Post reports on an impossible-seeming thing – a fossil that’s not just of hard tissue like teeth and bones (and shells), but that reveals the structures of something… Read the rest “Fossilized nerves.”
Nature cuts my last potential for productivity to the quick with news that researchers have made mouse sperm in a dish:
… Read the rest “So we’ve made sperm. No man necessary.”Researchers in China say that they have discovered a way to make rudimentary
I don’t have the math language to explain what’s going on here very well. It’s a diagram of the Rastrigin function, which is, ahem, “a typical… Read the rest “Science Art: Contour plot of Rastrigin’s function in two variables, by Tos”
NPR’s Skunk Bear turns us on (in general, but specifically with this) observing the outsized influence of unanticipated consequences – singling out for awards all the times… Read the rest “Celebrating happy accidents with The Golden Mole”
SONG: “Janssen.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Scientists just analyzed the atmosphere of a ‘super-Earth’ for the first time,” Washington Post, 16 Feb.… Read the rest “SONG: Janssen”
Nature reveals a new generation of Milgram experiments – the 50-year-old psychological tests that had subjects electrocute (or believe they were electrocuting) other people … Read the rest “Modern Milgram Experiments: plumbing the horror of only following orders”
Such a winning smile….
Neopteroplax was, at one point, something like a crocodile of salamanders – an amphibian about 3 meters long (that’s nigh onto… Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 4, Neopteroplax conemaughensis, 1963”
Science Daily talks about our ancient brothers, the Neanderthals who were us, 100,000 years ago:
… Read the rest “Modern humans and Neanderthals go back further together than we thought.”Today in Nature the team publishes evidence of interbreeding that occurred an estimated
Washington Post unveils our first observations of the atmosphere on an Earth-like planet outside the solar system:
… Read the rest “Alien atmospheres”For the first time ever, scientists are sniffing out the secrets of a
Discovery News hypes the headline a little here (but forgivably) by declaring that a 45-million-year-old prehistoric coffee has been discovered preserved in amber:
… Read the rest “Coffee (and pepper) of the dinosaurs discovered.”Named Strychnos
BBC News covers the preventative medicines that act like statins for your brain:
… Read the rest “A new generation of anti-Alzheimer’s drugs”Statins are taken by people to reduce the risk of developing heart disease and the Cambridge research team
This is a chapter heading from the book Finland in the Nineteenth Century: by Finnish authors, illustrated by Finnish artists, published in 1894.
Reaching for the stars,… Read the rest “Science Art: VII. Scientific Literature, by Finnish artists.”
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