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 moreNew Scientist reveals that, worldwide, more people died from TB than from AIDS:
… Read the rest “Step aside HIV. Tuberculosis is now the deadliest infectious disease.”This year marks the deadline for the Millennium Development Goal of cutting the number of TB cases globally,
Medical XPress examines a link between major depression and immune-system cells in the brain called “microglia”:
… Read the rest “Depression could be an immune problem.”In a groundbreaking theoretical review paper published
The translation of “a Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze von Equisetum hiemale dicht unterhalb der Scheitelzelle nach Naegeli und Leitgeb,” according… Read the rest “Science Art: A Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze…, 1905.”
Dr. Jeff Masters at Weather Underground has a lot of superlatives for Hurricane Patricia, the Category 5 storm that leapt up out of nowhere to devastate Puerto Vallarta:
… Read the rest “The meanest, most-quickly-intensifying hurricane in the Western Hemisphere.”Stunning, historic,
Laryngitis is a heck of thing, especially when combined with an antibiotic allergy.
Music to resume shortly.
Science Daily reports that where scientists had thought there was only one kind of giant tortoise, there were actually two. Two kinds of giant tortoise living side by side:
… Read the rest “There’s a new giant tortoise species in the Galapagos.”The discovery
Nature points out one pleasant side effect of the growing diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba – we’re doing better than ever at protecting endangered species like… Read the rest “Cuba & U.S. team up to save sharks.”
Scientific American explores a strange anatomical detail for a very large dinosaur indeed – a whip-like tail that could actually have cracked like a whip:
… Read the rest “Apatosaurus could have cracked its tail like a giant whip.”The idea that Apatosaurus
Behold the West.
This is the frontispiece to a scientific report, the Report on the geology of the eastern portion of the Uinta Mountains and a region of country adjacent thereto – … Read the rest “Science Art: Gate of Lodore, from the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories.”
It sure doesn’t feel like it, but Scientific American has some research to suggest that all these screens and electric lights really aren’t ruining our primal, natural-born… Read the rest “Maybe… just maybe… we’re getting as much sleep as we always did.”
The Guardian reveals how exerting the willpower not to eat that next donut actually lowers your ability to remember things clearly:
… Read the rest “Self-control eats your memory.”In the lab, self-control – or response inhibition, as
New Scientist gives us an update on what the Chang’e 3 lander has been seeing for the last two years:
… Read the rest “China’s space telescope: Two years of watching from the moon.”The 15-centimetre telescope is mounted on the Chang’e 3 lander, which touched down on the
Nature tackles the “reproducibility problem” – trying to find out why some WRONG things get published as being RIGHT, but also how exactly scientists get so good at … Read the rest “Wrong Science. As if the p-hacking wasn’t bad enough…”
A photo of that icy, cold, faraway, beautiful neighbor, just snapped by NASA.
Found in the New Horizons Image Gallery.
NASA’s Deep Horizons has found traces of good ol’ H2O on that dwarf planet at the fringe of the solar system:
… Read the rest “There’s water ice on another planet. Not Mars. Pluto.”In a second significant finding, New Horizons has detected numerous
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