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 moreThe New York Times wouldn’t call it “soylent green buffalo,” but I would. Picture, if you would, vats of yeast engineered to give off THC, cannabidiol and other compounds… Read the rest “This yeast makes cannabinoids, no pot plants needed.”
PLOS Biology wants us to know that in a cost/benefit analysis, love comes out ahead:
… Read the rest “Love and Fitness”A new study published in PLOS Biology by Malika Ihle, Bart Kempenaers, and Wolfgang Forstmeier attempts
It’s tough being a bee for lots of reasons, but at least, as New Scientist reports, brain damage from chemical warfare won’t be as much of a problem any more – not in the … Read the rest “American bees get a (small) break.”
Popular Science reveals a new way to check if a little thing really is what it’s labeled as:
… Read the rest “3D barcodes ensure pills (or microchips) are genuine.”Researchers from the University of Bradford and Sofmat, an anti-fraud technology company,
This is a jellyfish drawn by Philip Henry Gosse, a naturalist and Creationist (!) who gave us the word “aquarium” as a place to see marine creatures. Before… Read the rest “Science Art: Aequorea Forbesiana by Philip Henry Gosse.”
Science Daily might not be as into the poetry of that phrase as I am. They’re more into what it means make a diamond that halfway isn’t there:
… Read the rest “A laser levitating glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum.”The research team is led by Nick Vamivakas
Science Daily hails a new study that finds even in an iceless, seal-less Arctic, the polar bear might be able to survive:
… Read the rest “Polar bears might make it after all.”As climate change accelerates ice melt in the Arctic, polar bears
The Guardian bulks up over scientific enthusiasm for a long-buried stone structure:
… Read the rest “New Stonehenge discovery = “Archaeology on steroids.””Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a massive stone monument buried under a thick, grassy
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From John P. Ralston’s “The Bohr Atom of Glueballs,” an article describing how to model an atom using rope and glue. Sort of.
Ralston does say it’s… Read the rest “Science Art: A tightly wrapped trefoil knot, identified as the second member of the glueball spectrum, 2003.”
Not a hole that worms live in, but the kind that spaceships use to bounce around the galaxy. Science Daily explains how Spanish scientists have created a wormhole in the lab:
… Read the rest “Wormhole blueprints”Scientists in
Washington Post spells out the bad news. There are more trees than we thought, but that means there are a *whole lot* less than there used to be:
… Read the rest “The good news: There are lots more trees than we thought. The bad news: Well….”In a blockbuster study released Wednesday in
The Guardian reports on a new therapy – nerve growth factor – that effectively saves dying brain cells:
… Read the rest “Gene therapy rescues brain cells from Alzheimer’s”The new results are preliminary findings from the very first human trials
Irish Examiner looks into the “biological Velcro” that could soon help repair damaged hearts:
… Read the rest “Flesh Velcro fixes hearts.”Velcro uses two sheets of material, one covered by hooks and the other loops,
These are prehistoric animals compared to their modern relatives and, for scale, a human. A human who’s interested in what they’re like… except when…… Read the rest “Science Art: Giant Animals: Modern and Extinct (detail), by Mary McLain”
Popular Science warns us to slow down by construction sites and watch for self-driving trucks on Florida roads by year’s end:
… Read the rest “Self-driving trucks – no humans *at all* – on Florida’s roads this year.”The rigs, which are part of a Department of Transportation
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