Needed: a silent sea sanctuary.
Science Direct has a copy of the study recommending a soundproofed sanctuary for dolphins and other sonar-using marine life: Many marine organisms, from invertebrates to […]
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 moreIs this safe? We know how how to turn off our sense of danger now.
Science Daily reports on the discovery of the brain circuit that recognizes danger: Researchers at Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and […]
Science Art: Geology, by Brad Paisley
Yeah, this was just rebroadcast on Prairie Home Companion this weekend. But why not? A pretty good country song that does everything you’d want a […]
NASA’s making low-pollution hybrid jets.
Popular Science reminds us that NASA’s first “A” is for “Aeronautics” – which is why they’re trying to make ultra-efficient hybrid jet engines: Researchers at […]
Hormone hacking: home-grown gender control.
The Open Source Gendercodes project is planning to take sex hormones out of the pharmaceutical factory and into the kitchens (and gardens) of any transgendered […]
Dogs stymie the battle to wipe out guinea worm.
As Nature notes, we’ve almost eradicated guinea worm – a terribly infectious parasite – but the worm seems to be striking back in the form […]
Florida carpenter ants program themselves.
Science Daily reveals how one species of ant takes on their own brains and programs their social roles – doing the job we thought DNA […]
Science Art: Maladieu du Cheval, by François Robichon de la Guérinière.
Click to embiggen A horse, looking well. From Manuel vétérinaire, ou traité sur les Maladies du Cheval, et sur les remédes qu’on doit employer pour […]
Science Art: Flaming Storms on the Sun’s Face
First found on dthorne books. I’m guessing this came from a very old Scientific American (maybe 1930s?), but can’t really say for sure. Welcome, 2016.
Disney builds a wall-driving robot.
A bit fancier than the Hall of the Presidents. New Scientist reports on a wheeled robot that uses fans to drive up walls: The eminently […]
Mouse livers could cure your sweet tooth.
Popular Science has more on the hormone from mouse livers that cuts sugar cravings: The scientists found that in the rodents, a hormone generated by […]
Science Art: Acanthophracta (detail) by Ernst Haeckel.
There’s a star in the East….
SONG: Aware of Emptiness
SONG: “Aware of Emptiness.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “China’s dark-matter satellite launches era of space science”, Nature, 17 Dec 2015, as used in the […]
The Falcon has landed… back on Earth.
Ars Technica (somewhat breathlessly) reports on SpaceX’s success, launching a rocket that made it to space and then returned home to land safely: The historic […]
Games sell candy and snacks to kids. Better than ads.
Science Daily reports on the battle ground of our kids’ psyches, revealing that kids are interacting with – and being manipulated by – ads they […]