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.)
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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 moreScience magazine has an exclusive report on a fusion group that could change everything. They’ve got a reactor that works better than any power source we’ve seen yet:
… Read the rest ““Secretive company” unveils better way to do fusion. (It’s legit.)”A privately
Nature tries to figure out why we’re not making the headway we should against Lyme, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and the rest of the tick-borne nasties:
… Read the rest “What makes tick-borne diseases so tough?”[Scott] Williams is testing
Wired brings up the potential of a universal flu vaccine – and the problems getting one together:
… Read the rest “A flu vaccine that really works. All the time.”Today, independent teams reported in Science and Nature Medicine how they’ve tinkered
… Read the rest “Science Art: Jupiter’s Rings by LORRI, 2007.”The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) snapped this photo of Jupiter’s ring system on February 24, 2007, from a distance of 7.1 million kilometers
SONG: “Thirty-Five Minutes (from Earth)”.
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SOURCE:Based on “NASA Windbots Could Explore Gas Giant Jupiter”, Sky News, 24 July 2015, as used … Read the rest “SONG: Thirty-Five Minutes (from Earth)”
Nature reports that, in the face of extinction, frogs have a way to adapt to pesticides – a little:
… Read the rest “Hope. Hope from frogs. They might just survive.”Several species of frogs can quickly switch on genetic resistance to a group of commonly
Denmark’s The Local shares the excitement of discovering a 400-year-old dragon – a figurehead from a Danish ship – that has been hidden in the sea since the 1500s:
… Read the rest “Sea monster found off Sweden – and archaeologists are thrilled.”The
German researchers, as disclosed in Science Daily, have found a singularly creative language – a form of whistled Turkish that, unlike any other language on Earth, is not processed… Read the rest “Whistled language is right-brained.”
BBC reveals a dirty secret about our sooty cities – the grunge doesn’t trap air pollution – it creates it:
… Read the rest “City grime “breathes out” pollution”In rooftop experiments in Germany, the researchers tracked
The Denver Post‘s (ahem) “nerd blog” has some interesting things to say about the planet next door – which, University of Colorado researchers believe, might… Read the rest “Life on Mars, and not too long ago.”
Three names for one little fish. And those are just the beginning.
I found this one on the Scientific Illustration tumblog, which quoted Wikipedia on the doree (etc.):
… Read the rest “Science Art: Doree, Zeus, Faber by Edward Donovan”John Dory, St Pierre
Science Daily introduces a new way to recharge your battery – take this flexible, biodegradable device and power it up by touching it:
… Read the rest “Tapping the power of DNA electronics: recharge the battery by touching it.”Many people may not realize it, but the movements
Nature reports that the octopus has, for an invertebrate, a really large genome – including a long sequence of genes that regulates intelligence in “higher” animals… Read the rest “The key to octopuses’ uncanny intelligence is in their genes.”
New York Times reveals what might be the ultimate fate of the Lost Colony of Roanoke:
… Read the rest “The Lost Colony… found?”They call the spot Site X. Down a dusty road winding through soybean fields, the clearing lies between
Nature greets a new one-atom-thick material – a super-thin sheet of tin scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University are calling “stanene”:
… Read the rest “Graphene’s tin cousin”Stanene (from the Latin
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