Dinosaur eggs in the big city.
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 […]
Science Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreThe phrase “human-induced seismic hazards” means “man-made earthquakes.” Thanks to oil mining…
Nature has more on the research into the aformentioned artificial earthquakes: It’s the first thing that geologist Todd Halihan asks on a sunny spring afternoon […]
Vampire squid stranger, even, than previously thought.
Science Daily goes deeper into the singular (and kinda sexy) oddness of the vampire squid: At ocean depths from 500 to 3,000 meters, they don’t […]
Science Art: Las Cascadas Slide (Section 6) from AB Nichols Notebook Vol. 38, 1910
Click to embiggen This is a handmade map from the construction of the Panama Canal, one of history’s greatest feats of engineering. Culebra Cut is […]
Our cannibal roots.
Science Daily digs into new evidence that early humans enjoyed an occasional bite of early human: Gough’s Cave in Somerset was thought to have given […]
Pictish fort found off Aberdeen
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 […]
New Alzheimer’s hope?
The Independent reports on Duke University researchers who think they’ve figured out how Alzheimer’s happens… and how to stop it: Researchers at Duke announced that […]
The thing that really sets human beings apart: our chins.
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 […]
Science Art: Firing in the Fog, 1995
Click to embiggen vastly In which NASA tests a Space Shuttle engine in Mississippi, on a cool and humid day. Found on GRIN.
Obesity contra dementia. (How the extra pounds protect your brain.)
Popular Science plunges into a study in The Lancet examining the possible neurological benefit of being obese: The team of British researchers looked at records […]
Humor boosts the bottom line. (Call it “funny business.”)
Scientific American examines what’s so wise about cracking up at meetings: …Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allen explored whether humor in the workplace might also help a corporation […]
Scientists: The moon was formed when Earth smacked her twin sister.
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 […]
The ethics of altering your children’s brains.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is asking the tough questions about what… and when… we should be doing to kids’ brains with electromagnetism: As the intervention […]
Drones for archaeology
PhysOrg has more on using drones… not just to find priceless historical sites, but to protect them from looters: With aerial photographs taken by a […]
Science Art: Detail from Plate LXVIII from British oology, c. 1835
That’s Anthus aquaticus and Anthus pratensis… the rock lark up top, and the tit lark at the bottom. Stop laughing, you in the back. There […]