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…
Read moreOr, Live Science kinda sorta points out, it might not. But the thing sold as a “garden ornament” is certainly ancient and mysterious:
… Read the rest “Mystery stone might have unknown Anglo-Saxon writing.”The hefty carving was up for sale as a garden
That’s what Nature is expecting to see, in its overview of the world of autonomous vehicles:
… Read the rest “Driverless cars in less than a decade”This summer, people will cruise through the streets of Greenwich, UK, in electric shuttles
Discovery News gets all excited by NASA-JPL’s announcement that they’re budgeting for a robotic mission to seek life on Jupiter’s moon Europa:
… Read the rest “NASA preps for life-hunting mission to Europa”In response to this
Popular Science looks at the hard facts behind decriminalization and legalization (two different things!) of marijuana – and what science says happens when cannabis consumption… Read the rest “Don’t despise it. Decriminalize it. (Or, you know, don’t… but at least know the facts.)”
This one is definitely worth clicking to embiggen. It’s from the very detailed, very large Histoire générale et particulière du développement des corps organisés… Read the rest “Science Art: Uterus En Etat De Gestation by Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste”
Siberian Times, the paper of record for the taiga, reports on the first successful reconstruction of ancient brain surgery:
… Read the rest “Recreating trepanation: how they poked holes in people’s heads (to heal them).”Neurosurgeons have been working with anthropologists and
Can’t beat NBC’s headline for this: Insects Wear Tiny Spacesuits, for Science:
… Read the rest “Insects in tiny space suits. Real ones. In a vacuum.”Scanning electron microscopes (SEM) provide incredibly detailed images of biological specimens,
Nature checks our DNA and finds that, yes, a lot of us are related to the Mongolian conqueror… but Genghis Khan ain’t the only big daddy:
… Read the rest “Genghis Khan ain’t the only big daddy.”“Lots of men have lots of sons, by chance.
That, according to Nature, is the call issued by ecologist Stephen Heard, who wants researchers to keep their prose whimsical, funny, elegant and moving:
… Read the rest “Make science beautiful, researchers.”In a guest post on the Tree of Life
Eurekalert releases results of a study that’s found hormonal birth control increases risk of brain tumors:
… Read the rest “Birth control hormones linked to brain tumors”Taking a hormonal contraceptive for at least five years is associated
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The full title of this appears to be: “D ß ist der schneck auß dem grund auf gezogen/mit allen notwendigen linien drauß er gemacht wirdet,” or “This … Read the rest “Science Art: D ß ist der schneck auß dem grund…, by Albrecht Duerer, from Four Books on Measurement (Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt)”
SONG: “Sleeping.”
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SOURCE: Based on “Naps Help Infants Form Memories“, Laboratory Equipment, 14 January 2015, as used in the post “Naps… Read the rest “SONG: Sleeping”
It just ain’t sanitary. Science magazine plumbs the depths of the million-dollar treasure hiding at the municipal waste treatment plant:
… Read the rest “There’s gold in them thar sewers….”Metals have long been known to concentrate
Science Daily explains how an orbital camera solved a decade-old Martian mystery:
… Read the rest “We found Beagle 2 on Mars.”Images taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, and initially
Probably us too, but Laboratory Equipment is only looking at the way babies need naps to remember new things:
… Read the rest “Naps make memories (in infants).”In a study, which is the first of its kind, researchers from the Univ. of Sheffield
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