First contact for health’s sake.
Peruvian officials have, Science Daily reports, made like technologically advanced aliens and had first contact with a very isolated tribe: Peru’s Ministry of Culture begins […]
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: New Horizons (Tribute), NPR/NASA/Bradbury
From NPR’s Skunk Bear: Words by Ray Bradbury. Images by NASA.
Earworms (hopelessly catchy tunes) get stuck in certain brain shapes.
New Scientist reveals the anatomy of the earworm: The study is the first to look at the neural basis for “involuntary musical imagery” – or […]
Archaeologists unearth magic Viking sword.
Science Daily has a for-real scientific report with an abstract that begins “Have you held the sword? Have you felt its weight?”: Have you felt […]
World’s oldest sperm found inside fossilized worm.
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: […]
Sorry, no science news today. Busy WATCHING A SPACE SHIP FLY PAST PLUTO.
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 most of the day for […]
The Big One is coming. Sorry, Seattle. And Portland.
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: […]
Science Art: Fig. 3, The Pocket Cephalometer, or Compass of Coordinates, by Dr. Gustave Le Bon, c.1878.
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 […]
Live sharks discovered inside a live volcano.
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 […]
There’s an all-electric big rig out on the road today….
Manufacturing.net explains how BMW put a pollution-free semi to work on the autobahn: The BMW Group began using an all-electric semi-truck to transport vehicle components […]
Genetically modified mosquitoes swarm Brazilian city.
And, New Scientist points out, they’re here to help… because they breed fast and their young die too quickly to spread dengue fever: Millions of […]
The Larkin Effect exposed: How parents pass anxiety on to their kids.
Science Daily peers deep into our brains to reveal how exactly our parents messed us all up: The study is being published this week in […]
Sorry, arachnophobes. Spiders can go *everywhere*.
Nature reveals how spiders can use webbing to sail through the air… and then land on water and keep on sailing: Morito Hayashi, a spider […]
Science Art: Scheutz mechanical calculator (Zeichnung der Difference Engine No.1 aus dem Jahr 1853), 1867.
Click to embiggen Now, after that brief, regrettable interruption in service, a tribute to the computer. This illustration is from The Elements of Natural Philosophy; […]
SONG: Vulnerable Ape Theory (Going to a Blues Show with the Young Earth Creationists)
SONG: “Vulnerable Ape Theory (Going to a Blues Show with the Young Earth Creationists)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “Vulnerability made us human: how our early […]