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, […]
Science Art: Psyche Spacecraft at the Asteroid Psyche, 2026
From the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio:
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Science Art: Body-centered cubic (bcc) unit cell of iron, 2009
If you were curious about the crystalline structure of iron mentioned in the last post, here it is — a molecul…
Read moreScience Art: MOON: For the Benefit of Humanity, 2023
It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreScience Art: Bubble chamber with colour enhanced tracks, 2026
This is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreScience Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.
Starfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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1 Arm
2…
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
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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 […]
Tyrannosaur pregnant?
Washington Post has peeked as experts sexed a T. rex: The team from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences […]
Can Alzheimer’s be transmitted?
Nature follows a researcher who noticed typical Alzheimer’s lesions in very untypical patients – young people who died after receiving contaminated growth hormone injections: For […]
Electric doping (drug-free!) boosts ski performance.
Nature reports on how tDCS – zapping the brain with low-voltage electricity – can help athletes boost their performance: The USSA [(US Ski and Snowboard […]
Wee rex. Awwww.
I stole the name from Reuters, but it was Joel Achenbach at Washington Post that first pointed me toward the news that they’ve found a […]
Science Art: ISS016-E-032414 (Underside of Space Shuttle Endeavour), 2008
Click to embiggen NASA has some of the best perspectives on the planet (and some of the planet’s best perspectives). Like so. This is a […]
Why *is* there a huge mountain on Ceres?
I’m sure if you’re reading this, you’re already regularly checking out Bad Astronomy, but just in case you missed it, Phil Plait is asking a […]
Mock weapons from the Iron Age
Science Daily pores over the mysterious discovery of a collection of non-functional metal weapons from more than 2,600 years ago: Discovered in 2009, the site […]
A remarkable woman, 2,500 years ago.
The Times of Israel reports on an unusual discovery – a small seal (as in wax-and-envelope, not as in hunted-in-Arctic) that belonged to a powerful […]
China goes green.
Amid news of massive layoffs and financial uncertainty, New Scientist sheds a ray of hope on the Middle Kingdom, reporting on China’s new five-year plan […]