No more moldy bats!
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 […]
Science 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: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: LightSail by Josh Spradling / The Planetary Society
Click to embiggen This is the thing the last song was about, LightSail, which even now is orbiting Earth and probably (if it’s going as […]
Sleep away your bad attitudes.
Science Daily covers a Northwestern University study that shows how to remove biases from your brain while you’re sleeping: Other researchers have documented many unsavory […]
That Deepwater Horizon spill… it’s still killing dolphins.
Nature has the grisly details about the 1,300 dolphin deaths that can be traced to that one incident: The spike in dolphin deaths began shortly […]
Wood chips (of the computer variety).
Science Daily peers into the smoke clouds to see the truth behind biodegradable computer chips make from wood: Portable electronics — typically made of non-renewable, […]
Fire exposes something really interesting on Montana’s plains – an unseen stone complex.
WesternDigs.org reveals what we now know about the ceremonial carvings hidden for centuries under the sod: Among the formations are two large effigies — or […]
Plate LXXVII: The First Picture of an American Butterfly from The Butterfly Book by W.J. Holland, 1930 edition.
Click to embiggen In 1930, this picture… or rather, the picture with the inscriptions beside it… had never before been published. And the inscriptions are […]
SONG: I Am Sailing
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. Not sometime […]
Young blood heals old bones. (Literally. Go figure.)
Smithsonian reveals a new way to heal the easily-broken bones of the elderly – by exposing the fractures to younger blood: “The traditional concept is […]
Snakes had ankles a long, long time ago.
Science Daily paints a picture of the very first snakes… before they lost their feet: The study, led by Yale University, USA, analyzed fossils, genes, […]
Engineered yeast grows opiates at home.
Nature opens the door to home-brewed heroin – just add water and sugar: A paper published on 18 May in Nature Chemical Biology reports the […]
The moonfish is warm-blooded.
Science Daily throws our sense of things slightly out of whack with news that there’s a fish out there that’s entirely warm-blooded: New research by […]
Science Art: Os Maxillaires Fossiles, by Pieter Camper.
Click to embiggen Jaws! Pieter Camper was a fossil collector, and in 1786, he drew this jaw he’d acquired. He thought it belonged to a […]
We can watch your mind changing. This is what a decision looks like.
Science Daily goes deep, deep into our innermost selves and reveals what a brain looks like the moment a mind changes: The findings result from […]
A solar sail unfurling. Not sometime in the unspecified future – *next week*.
Bill Nye, more than just an enthusiast on the TV, has gotten a group together – part of The Planetary Society – to test a […]