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 moreNew Scientist reveals the anatomy of the earworm:
… Read the rest “Earworms (hopelessly catchy tunes) get stuck in certain brain shapes.”The study is the first to look at the neural basis for “involuntary musical imagery” – or “earworms”. They aren’t just a curiosity, says
Science Daily has a for-real scientific report with an abstract that begins “Have you held the sword? Have you felt its weight?”:
… Read the rest “Archaeologists unearth magic Viking sword.”Have you felt how sharp and strong the blade
It’s the sperm of perspective, is what it is. Nature is showing off the very seed of history – the oldest animal sperm ever discovered:
… Read the rest “World’s oldest sperm found inside fossilized worm.”The remains of long, thin cells preserved
You can too, over here: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/, or here: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/.
Remember, Pluto’s 4.5 light-hours away. You dial their number, it takes… Read the rest “Sorry, no science news today. Busy WATCHING A SPACE SHIP FLY PAST PLUTO.”
The New Yorker paints a pretty vivid seismic picture of the quake that some scientists say is due to rip the Pacific Northwest in two:
… Read the rest “The Big One is coming. Sorry, Seattle. And Portland.”Most people in the United States know just one fault line
This is a demonstration of an instrument used to measure “cephalic index,” or how big a person’s head was. This was, at this point in the 1800s, deemed important so that… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 3, The Pocket Cephalometer, or Compass of Coordinates, by Dr. Gustave Le Bon, c.1878.”
National Geographic reveals an ecosystem my 10-year-old son might have dreamed up. It’s all lava, acid and sharks. Inside the cauldron of Kavachi is a “sharkcano”… Read the rest “Live sharks discovered inside a live volcano.”
Manufacturing.net explains how BMW put a pollution-free semi to work on the autobahn:
… Read the rest “There’s an all-electric big rig out on the road today….”The BMW Group began using an all-electric semi-truck to transport vehicle components from the SCHERM
And, New Scientist points out, they’re here to help… because they breed fast and their young die too quickly to spread dengue fever:
… Read the rest “Genetically modified mosquitoes swarm Brazilian city.”Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes
Science Daily peers deep into our brains to reveal how exactly our parents messed us all up:
… Read the rest “The Larkin Effect exposed: How parents pass anxiety on to their kids.”The study is being published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Nature reveals how spiders can use webbing to sail through the air… and then land on water and keep on sailing:
… Read the rest “Sorry, arachnophobes. Spiders can go *everywhere*.”Morito Hayashi, a spider researcher at the Natural History Museum in
Now, after that brief, regrettable interruption in service, a tribute to the computer.
This illustration is from The Elements of Natural Philosophy; Or, An Introduction… Read the rest “Science Art: Scheutz mechanical calculator (Zeichnung der Difference Engine No.1 aus dem Jahr 1853), 1867.”
This is a waterwheel, from a book written by architect and engineer Georg Andreas Boeckler, under the title Theatrum machinarum novum : exhibens opera molaria et aquatica constructum … Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. XLIII. Hydromylos, sive aquaria mola, 1662.”
PeerJ has a study revealing how one the planet’s most invasive species has wormed its way into – of course – Florida:
… Read the rest “Land planarians are invading the U.S.!”The land planarian Platydemus manokwari de Beauchamp,
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