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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This is a little critter known as Carchesium polypinum, less formally a “stalked ciliate,” an organism that forms colonies that look like teensy tinesy trees, or maybe ferns,… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 10 (Theil eines Stockes von Carchesium polypinum mit zwei Individuen), by Carl Gegenbaur,1870”
PhysOrg repeats a theme I’ve heard a lot lately – finding yet more evidence that Homo sapiens wasn’t really a step forward for Homo neanderthalensis:
… Read the rest “Stone Age man not more advanced than Neanderthals.”A multi-purpose
Nature reports on new clues that we learned to talk by learning to cut meat:
… Read the rest “Stone tools, stone lessons, stone words”Here we present an experiment investigating the efficacy of transmission of Oldowan tool-making skills along
Science Daily reports on artificial muscle that works… meaning, it could actually do work:
… Read the rest “They’ve grown muscle in the lab… and made it twitch.”The study was led by Nenad Bursac, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke
SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: This is a cover making up for… Read the rest “SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential AJ Allulli cover)”
A vision of futures past from NASA’s Glenn Research Center Collection, part of the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System.
This was what they planned the Space Shuttle… Read the rest “Science Art: Space Shuttle, concept art from NASA’s Glenn Research Center.”
Healthline spells out the basics of rebooting an immune system from scratch – which means a pretty dramatic step forward in medicine:
… Read the rest “Stem cell therapy puts multiple sclerosis in remission.”Studying 24 study volunteers who underwent
Nature celebrates the discovery of a dirty new weapon in the war against antibiotic-resistant pathogens:
… Read the rest “A whole new kind of antibiotic”An antibiotic with the ability to vanquish drug-resistant pathogens has been
Science Daily finds the truth behind the old wives’ tale, that common cold viruses flourish in conditions cooler than body temperature – like a nose in winter:
… Read the rest “Cold weather really does help cold germs spread.”To investigate
New Scientist watches the Messenger probe prepare to take a final spin around the hottest planet – with one last firing of its engines:
… Read the rest “Last tour of Mercury – wanna name a crater?”Engineers expect the 120-second engine burn
LiveScience examines how and why rats are aroused by tiny vests:
… Read the rest “A rat bustier or a rat camisole for a little rat naughtiness.”In an unusual study, researchers allowed virgin male rats to have sex with females wearing special rodent “jackets.”
Performing delicate procedures in space: a zero-G haircut for New Year’s.
From Italian astronaut @AstroSamantha’s Twitter feed.
The process starts here, if you want to … Read the rest “Science Art: While master @AstroTerry cuts, apprentice @AntonAstrey is at the vacuum cleaner. Apprendista Anton all’aspirapolvere, by Sam Cristoforetti.”
Scientific American‘s Michael Shermer gets at the root of why we’re so fascinated with the walking dead:
… Read the rest “Why… zombies?”Zombies, for one thing, fit into the horror genre in which monstrous
Nature profiles the amazing new high-atmosphere vehicle for exploring space from Antarctica:
… Read the rest “NASA breaks scientific boundaries… in ballooning.”If all continues smoothly, experts expect the flight to last for 100 days or longer. The current
University of Cambridge researchers have gotten to the root of the chord. (See, that’s a music theory joke.) No, really, they’ve found was seems to be the oldest written music… Read the rest “The oldest harmony. (Well, polyphony.)”
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