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 moreFile this, I guess, under “the problem with Jurassic Park.”
The little claw at the bottom belonged to the fearsome Velociraptor, a category of creatures … Read the rest “Science Art: Comparison between Deinonychus and Velociraptor’s feet, by Danny Cicchetti.”
Science Daily describes the regal bearing and frilly crown of Regaliceratops peterhewsi, the dinosaur they’re calling “Hellboy”:
… Read the rest “Hellboy, king of the Triceratops clan.”“The specimen comes from
Times of Israel reports on archaelogists puzzling out just *how* high Philistines were getting for religious reasons:
… Read the rest “Ritual intoxication in the Holy Land”In an upcoming symposium in Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, aptly
Nature uncovers just how hard it can be to do research when your subjects keep dying:
… Read the rest “Italian police pressure scientists investigating olive blight.”In the past year, plant scientists at various institutes in Bari, the capital of the Puglia region, have
White-nose syndrome is the fungal disease (you might recall) that’s killing bats. Millions of them. But now, National Geographic is giving us hope that a bacteria might be able to… Read the rest “No more moldy bats!”
This is the thing the last song was about, LightSail, which even now is orbiting Earth and probably (if it’s going as expected) accelerating. We’re not entirely… Read the rest “Science Art: LightSail by Josh Spradling / The Planetary Society”
Science Daily covers a Northwestern University study that shows how to remove biases from your brain while you’re sleeping:
… Read the rest “Sleep away your bad attitudes.”Other researchers have documented many unsavory consequences
Nature has the grisly details about the 1,300 dolphin deaths that can be traced to that one incident:
… Read the rest “That Deepwater Horizon spill… it’s still killing dolphins.”The spike in dolphin deaths began shortly before the spill in April 2010, and scientists
Science Daily peers into the smoke clouds to see the truth behind biodegradable computer chips make from wood:
… Read the rest “Wood chips (of the computer variety).”Portable electronics — typically made of non-renewable, non-biodegradable
WesternDigs.org reveals what we now know about the ceremonial carvings hidden for centuries under the sod:
… Read the rest “Fire exposes something really interesting on Montana’s plains – an unseen stone complex.”Among the formations are two large effigies — or figures made from arrangements
In 1930, this picture… or rather, the picture with the inscriptions beside it… had never before been published. And the inscriptions are rather interesting.… Read the rest “Plate LXXVII: The First Picture of an American Butterfly from The Butterfly Book by W.J. Holland, 1930 edition.”
SONG: “I Am Sailing.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Based on “LightSail”, sail.planetary.org, retrieved 13 May 2015, as used in the post “A solar sail unfurling.… Read the rest “SONG: I Am Sailing”
Smithsonian reveals a new way to heal the easily-broken bones of the elderly – by exposing the fractures to younger blood:
… Read the rest “Young blood heals old bones. (Literally. Go figure.)”“The traditional concept is that as you get older, your bone
Science Daily paints a picture of the very first snakes… before they lost their feet:
… Read the rest “Snakes had ankles a long, long time ago.”The study, led by Yale University, USA, analyzed fossils, genes, and anatomy from 73 snake and
Nature opens the door to home-brewed heroin – just add water and sugar:
… Read the rest “Engineered yeast grows opiates at home.”A paper published on 18 May in Nature Chemical Biology reports the creation of a yeast strain containing the
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