A flu vaccine that really works. All the time.
Wired brings up the potential of a universal flu vaccine – and the problems getting one together: Today, independent teams reported in Science and Nature […]
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 moreScience Art: Jupiter’s Rings by LORRI, 2007.
Click to embiggen. The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) snapped this photo of Jupiter’s ring system on February 24, 2007, from a distance […]
SONG: Thirty-Five Minutes (from Earth)
SONG: “Thirty-Five Minutes (from Earth)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “NASA Windbots Could Explore Gas Giant Jupiter”, Sky News, 24 July 2015, as used in the […]
Hope. Hope from frogs. They might just survive.
Nature reports that, in the face of extinction, frogs have a way to adapt to pesticides – a little: Several species of frogs can quickly […]
Sea monster found off Sweden – and archaeologists are thrilled.
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 […]
Whistled language is right-brained.
German researchers, as disclosed in Science Daily, have found a singularly creative language – a form of whistled Turkish that, unlike any other language on […]
City grime “breathes out” pollution
BBC reveals a dirty secret about our sooty cities – the grunge doesn’t trap air pollution – it creates it: In rooftop experiments in Germany, […]
Life on Mars, and not too long ago.
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 […]
Science Art: Doree, Zeus, Faber by Edward Donovan
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 […]
Tapping the power of DNA electronics: recharge the battery by touching it.
Science Daily introduces a new way to recharge your battery – take this flexible, biodegradable device and power it up by touching it: Many people […]
The key to octopuses’ uncanny intelligence is in their genes.
Nature reports that the octopus has, for an invertebrate, a really large genome – including a long sequence of genes that regulates intelligence in “higher” […]
The Lost Colony… found?
New York Times reveals what might be the ultimate fate of the Lost Colony of Roanoke: They call the spot Site X. Down a dusty […]
Graphene’s tin cousin
Nature greets a new one-atom-thick material – a super-thin sheet of tin scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University are calling “stanene”: Stanene (from the Latin […]
Science Art: Experience the Gravity of a Super Earth, NASA/JPL Exoplanet Travel Bureau
Click to embiggen Apparently, since last December at least, NASA has been creating vintage-style travel posters for exoplanets – the planets we’ve been discovering around […]
Emotions help you remember information
Science Daily processes a University of Haifa finding about why first impressions are so important – and how *feeling* a thing helps you *know* a […]