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: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience 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: 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, […]
Cahokian human sacrifices picked local victims.
Western Digs reveals the latest discovery from the metropolis of middle America – where they practiced human sacrifice with their own citizens: But one of […]
Science Art: Five of Spades, from Playing Cards: Engineering
This is one of a whole deck of… well, they’re practically a technological tarot, really. They’re playing cards illustrating concepts in engineering. (The two of […]
If our diets alone are making us obese, why are vervet monkeys and mice overweight too?
Aeon asks some interesting questions about what’s really making us fatter – and why: As Richard L Atkinson, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences […]
Mealworms can eat our plastic trash.
Science Alert (citing Environmental Science & Technology) shows us a new way to think about chucking out all that delicious “non-biodegradable” garbage: Researchers led by […]
“They ate better than we did.” Scans reveal Pompeii victims’ health.
TheLocal.it looks at the petrified remains of Ancient Roman volcano victims: A recently launched project that is performing CAT scans on the remains of Pompeii […]
What social media app has the biggest political influence right now? Not Facebook. Not Twitter.
According to Quartz, in the African country of Tanzania at least,
How do you say “Hubble” in Hindi? “Astrosat” – sort of.
First Post shows how NASA’s not the only one with big space news today. India has just launched their own space observatory from Sriharikota spaceport: […]
Science Art: Red White Blood Cells, by NCI-Frederick.
The one carries oxygen around, the other keeps the system clean. They’re teeny tiny. Image from the Electron Microscopy Facility at The National Cancer Institute […]
We’ve got a battery for your home. Made from organic dye and food additives.
Science Daily looks closely at an affordable, efficient, non-toxic battery that runs your home smoothly from intermittent power sources: The mismatch between the availability of […]
SONG: Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)
SONG: “Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “Lasers used to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum”, Science Daily, 7 Sep 2015, as […]