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.)
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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…
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These are two ancient horns, made of gold and engraved (or embossed) with runes and pictures that seem to tell a story. Or maybe just look cool.
Also, they are horns that it seems like no one … Read the rest “Science Art: The Golden Horns of Gallehus.”
SONG: “How the Moon Began.”
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SOURCE:Based on “Puzzle of Moon’s origin resolved”, Nature, 8 April 2015, as used in the post “Scientists:… Read the rest “SONG: “How the Moon Began””
Sometimes, as South China Morning Post demonstrates, you just can’t dig a hole in some parts of China without making some kind of remarkable dinosaur discovery:
… Read the rest “Dinosaur eggs in the big city.”The fossils were
Nature has more on the research into the aformentioned artificial earthquakes:
… Read the rest “The phrase “human-induced seismic hazards” means “man-made earthquakes.” Thanks to oil mining…”It’s the first thing that geologist Todd Halihan asks on a sunny spring afternoon at Oklahoma State University
Science Daily goes deeper into the singular (and kinda sexy) oddness of the vampire squid:
… Read the rest “Vampire squid stranger, even, than previously thought.”At ocean depths from 500 to 3,000 meters, they don’t swim so much as float, and they get by
This is a handmade map from the construction of the Panama Canal, one of history’s greatest feats of engineering. Culebra Cut is where the project experienced massive… Read the rest “Science Art: Las Cascadas Slide (Section 6) from AB Nichols Notebook Vol. 38, 1910”
Science Daily digs into new evidence that early humans enjoyed an occasional bite of early human:
… Read the rest “Our cannibal roots.”Gough’s Cave in Somerset was thought to have given up all its secrets when excavations
BBC is reporting that University of Aberdeen researchers have got all het up over the thought that there are traces of all kinds of pre-Celtic settlements in the rocks along the coast:
… Read the rest “Pictish fort found off Aberdeen”Pictish
The Independent reports on Duke University researchers who think they’ve figured out how Alzheimer’s happens… and how to stop it:
… Read the rest “New Alzheimer’s hope?”Researchers at Duke announced that
Thanks to Science Daily, I’ll never think of my beard the same way again. They’ve got new insight into the evolution of humankind’s most uniquely human feature –… Read the rest “The thing that really sets human beings apart: our chins.”
In which NASA tests a Space Shuttle engine in Mississippi, on a cool and humid day.
Found on GRIN.
Popular Science plunges into a study in The Lancet examining the possible neurological benefit of being obese:
… Read the rest “Obesity contra dementia. (How the extra pounds protect your brain.)”The team of British researchers looked at records of almost two million patients
Scientific American examines what’s so wise about cracking up at meetings:
… Read the rest “Humor boosts the bottom line. (Call it “funny business.”)”…Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allen explored whether humor in the workplace might also help a corporation
Nature reports on a new way of looking at lunar formation that almost reads like a myth. The moon came to be when Earth collided with a near-identical sister planet:
… Read the rest “Scientists: The moon was formed when Earth smacked her twin sister.”The ‘giant impact’ hypothesis,
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is asking the tough questions about what… and when… we should be doing to kids’ brains with electromagnetism:
… Read the rest “The ethics of altering your children’s brains.”As the intervention
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