American bees get a (small) break.
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 […]
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 more3D barcodes ensure pills (or microchips) are genuine.
Popular Science reveals a new way to check if a little thing really is what it’s labeled as: Researchers from the University of Bradford and […]
Science Art: Aequorea Forbesiana by Philip Henry Gosse.
Click to embiggen This is a jellyfish drawn by Philip Henry Gosse, a naturalist and Creationist (!) who gave us the word “aquarium” as a […]
A laser levitating glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum.
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 […]
Polar bears might make it after all.
Science Daily hails a new study that finds even in an iceless, seal-less Arctic, the polar bear might be able to survive: As climate change […]
New Stonehenge discovery = “Archaeology on steroids.”
The Guardian bulks up over scientific enthusiasm for a long-buried stone structure: Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a massive stone monument buried under a […]
Science Art: A tightly wrapped trefoil knot, identified as the second member of the glueball spectrum, 2003.
Click to embiggen From John P. Ralston’s “The Bohr Atom of Glueballs,” an article describing how to model an atom using rope and glue. Sort […]
Wormhole blueprints
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 […]
The good news: There are lots more trees than we thought. The bad news: Well….
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 […]
Gene therapy rescues brain cells from Alzheimer’s
The Guardian reports on a new therapy – nerve growth factor – that effectively saves dying brain cells: The new results are preliminary findings from […]
Flesh Velcro fixes hearts.
Irish Examiner looks into the “biological Velcro” that could soon help repair damaged hearts: Velcro uses two sheets of material, one covered by hooks and […]
Science Art: Giant Animals: Modern and Extinct (detail), by Mary McLain
Click to embiggen These are prehistoric animals compared to their modern relatives and, for scale, a human. A human who’s interested in what they’re like… […]
Self-driving trucks – no humans *at all* – on Florida’s roads this year.
Popular Science warns us to slow down by construction sites and watch for self-driving trucks on Florida roads by year’s end: The rigs, which are […]
“Secretive company” unveils better way to do fusion. (It’s legit.)
Science 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 […]
What makes tick-borne diseases so tough?
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 […]