Science Art: A Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze…, 1905.
Click to embiggen The translation of “a Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze von Equisetum hiemale dicht unterhalb der Scheitelzelle nach Naegeli und Leitgeb,” according to Google, […]
Science Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreThe meanest, most-quickly-intensifying hurricane in the Western Hemisphere.
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 […]
No song today.
Laryngitis is a heck of thing, especially when combined with an antibiotic allergy. Music to resume shortly.
There’s a new giant tortoise species in the Galapagos.
Science Daily reports that where scientists had thought there was only one kind of giant tortoise, there were actually two.
Cuba & U.S. team up to save sharks.
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 […]
Apatosaurus could have cracked its tail like a giant whip.
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: […]
Science Art: Gate of Lodore, from the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories.
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 […]
Maybe… just maybe… we’re getting as much sleep as we always did.
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 […]
Self-control eats your memory.
The Guardian reveals how exerting the willpower not to eat that next donut actually lowers your ability to remember things clearly: In the lab, self-control […]
China’s space telescope: Two years of watching from the moon.
New Scientist gives us an update on what the Chang’e 3 lander has been seeing for the last two years: The 15-centimetre telescope is mounted […]
Wrong Science. As if the p-hacking wasn’t bad enough…
Nature tackles the “reproducibility problem” – trying to find out why some WRONG things get published as being RIGHT, but also how exactly scientists get […]
Science Art: Pluto as seen by New Horizons
Click to embiggen A photo of that icy, cold, faraway, beautiful neighbor, just snapped by NASA. Found in the New Horizons Image Gallery.
There’s water ice on another planet. Not Mars. Pluto.
NASA’s Deep Horizons has found traces of good ol’ H2O on that dwarf planet at the fringe of the solar system: In a second significant […]
The third kind of lie: science vs. p-hacking.
Fusion goes beyond the three kinds of lies (“Lies, damned lies, and statistics,” according to… someone) and into the awful implications of trusting the data […]
Spacesuits made… sexy?
Slate (not The Onion) dishes on the Victoria’s Secret designer looking at the next generation of form-fitting spacesuits: Perhaps nobody understands the intersection of aesthetics, […]