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.)
ARTIST: grant.
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 moreSo say Stanford University neurologists, who have actually seen memories under a microscope – and watched them vanish:
… Read the rest “Memories are physical: they last as long as the nerve-cell connections that store them.”Now Mark Schnitzer, an associate professor of biology and
I couldn’t really improve on New Scientist‘s headline there. This device shines a laser through an earlobe or wrist and detects malaria parasites through light absorption… Read the rest “Laser “tricorder” diagnoses malaria through the skin.”
Looks like I’ll be owing a song… and a penitential cover for my tardiness.
Stay tuned.
Auto Guide (and a few other places) have been looking at… well, is the step before a driverless car or the step beyond? Anyway, it’s a thing where Jaguar/Land Rover is using NASA… Read the rest “The sports car that reads your mind.”
These are paper sculptures of birds’ wings – four specific categories of birds’ wings. As explained by their creator:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Paper Wings, by Nicole Frost.”This is my paper sculpture of
The Guardian has more on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s official extinction verdict:
… Read the rest “We don’t have to protect the Eastern Cougar any more. There aren’t any left.”The agency said on Tuesday the four-year review, which included information from 21 states
Popular Archaeology thrills us with really, really old scares… digging up (literally!) evidence of Classical Greek zombie stories:
… Read the rest “Zombies of the ancient world”As one case in point, [University of Pittsburgh
PhysOrg turns the “brutal caveman” stereotype on its head, with a new look at our earliest ancestors as sensitive folks who got a leg up on the competition because we were vulnerable… Read the rest “The Vulnerable Ape theory of human origins.”
The ESA has spent an eventful weekend now that the Rosetta probe has woken up after a long sleep on a comet:
… Read the rest “Good morning, Philae. How’s that comet looking 200 days later?”Hidden by shadows, Philae shut down on 15 November 2014 at 00:36 GMT after completing
This seems to be a minute beetle, as pictured in Objects for the microscope, being a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition… Read the rest “Science Art: Beetle, magnified 26 diameters, 1871.”
New Scientist has photos and video of a severed rat limb… that was never part of any rat’s body. It was grown in a dish:
… Read the rest “A lab-grown limb (muscle, blood and skin).”It may go down in history as the first step to creating real,
Quartz reveals the poisonous problem with poor sleep habits:
… Read the rest “Sleep cleans your brain. And lack of sleep, we now know, causes toxins to build up.”[R]esearchers now believe wastes are forcefully pushed through the brain at a much faster and higher pace, according to Maiken
Nature describes (and even has photos of) an electronic mesh that can be rolled up and squirted out of a syringe into a mouse brain where it can monitor (and stimulate) individual neurons… Read the rest “Let’s take a moment to consider the phrase “injectable brain implant.” Because it exists.”
BBC News has some details on a wireless device that gets charged wirelessly, too:
… Read the rest “They’ve got a camera that’s powered *by ambient wi-fi*.”The battery-free camera was modified so it could scavenge power from ambient wi-fi signals, store it and
Science Daily takes security to a whole other level with a new system that relies on your brain’s responses to words as security instead of memorized passwords:
… Read the rest “Forget your passwords; use your brainwaves.”In “Brainprint,”
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