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 […]
Science Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreSolar 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, […]
Y’know who digs your smartphone? Medical researchers, that’s who.
Nature explores the impact of our little pocket computers on the way medical research is done: Smartphone apps developed by academics, pharmaceutical companies and technology […]
Science Art: Plate XII foldout by Thomas Davidson, from The geologist : a popular monthly magazine of geology.
These are fossilized shells from Thomas Davidson’s “On Some Fossil Brachiopoda,” or “Palaeontological Notes on the Brachiopoda,” from this magazine dedicated to amateur geologists published […]
We might have gotten MRSA on the run.
Good news from New Scientist – the so-called superbug has met its germ-killing kryptonite: These bacteria are resistant to the most widely used class of […]