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 moreScience Daily throws our sense of things slightly out of whack with news that there’s a fish out there that’s entirely warm-blooded:
… Read the rest “The moonfish is warm-blooded.”New research by NOAA Fisheries has revealed
Jaws!
Pieter Camper was a fossil collector, and in 1786, he drew this jaw he’d acquired. He thought it belonged to a toothed whale. Another collector had a similar… Read the rest “Science Art: Os Maxillaires Fossiles, by Pieter Camper.”
Science Daily goes deep, deep into our innermost selves and reveals what a brain looks like the moment a mind changes:
… Read the rest “We can watch your mind changing. This is what a decision looks like.”The findings result from experiments led by electrical engineering
Bill Nye, more than just an enthusiast on the TV, has gotten a group together – part of The Planetary Society – to test a solar sailer spacecraft next week:
… Read the rest “A solar sail unfurling. Not sometime in the unspecified future – *next week*.”LightSail™ is a citizen-funded
Nature has more on a cell phone gizmo that’s changing how medicine is done in remote places:
… Read the rest “Mobile phone microscope saving lives (and eyes) in Africa”In a study in Science Translational Medicine on 6 May, bioengineer Daniel Fletcher of the
This is a naked woman, as seen in 1911 by a German medical expert. The book’s title translates to “The Woman As Family Doctor,” and it’s pretty much a home health… Read the rest “Science Art: From Die Frau als Hausärztin by Anna Fischer-Dückelmann, 1911”
Nature measures the price of poverty, and the effect it has on children. A bi-coastal study has found that poverty shrinks kids’ brains from birth:
… Read the rest “Poverty shrinks kids’ brains.”…A team led by neuroscientists
Science Nordic hails a medieval discovery in the heart of Odense, Denmark – a medieval runestick written by someone named Tomme:
… Read the rest “An 800-year-old Viking note found. Written in runes on a slip of wood.”It isn’t easy to decipher what the runes say and the
Science Daily reports on University of North Carolina research that shows transcranial stimulation, the fascinating new tech that uses mild DC current to “switch on” parts… Read the rest “Using tDCS – mild electric jolts to stimulate your brain – actually hurts your IQ score.”
Laboratory Equipment has sad news for those of us who like straight, simple, elegant communication. It appears that scientific articles with abstracts packed with (unnecessary and obfuscatory)… Read the rest “Short, simple abstracts… aren’t cited as much as those with abstracts tending to maximize the high-verbosity quotient.”
Science writer Leonard David is concerned. It seems like Mars Rover Curiosity is having some unusual wear on it wheels… erosion and corrosion that seems to be caused by liquid water… Read the rest “In the Martian morning, there’s dew… (and it’s eating away our rover’s wheels)”
from Lectures on Ventilation (1869) by Lewis W. Leeds, via Public Domain Review.
The invisible made visible.
Well, sort of. Popular Archaeology traces the efforts now underway to rebuild the Jamestown church where Pocahontas was married:
… Read the rest “Pocahontas was married here. In this church.”About five years after the footprint of the first Jamestown
Science Daily tries to describe a “platypus dinosaur” that combines the oddest bits of Brontosaurus and T. rex:
… Read the rest “A plant-eating T. rex… with a long neck.”Chilesaurus diegosuarezi is named after the country where
Nature reports on a strikingly beautiful – and utterly destructive – invasive critter that’s swept across warm waters from Ft. Lauderdale to Venezuela:
… Read the rest “Lionfish have reached Brazil.”Lionfish
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