NASA preps for life-hunting mission to Europa
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: In response to […]
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 moreDon’t despise it. Decriminalize it. (Or, you know, don’t… but at least know the facts.)
Popular Science looks at the hard facts behind decriminalization and legalization (two different things!) of marijuana – and what science says happens when cannabis consumption […]
Science Art: Uterus En Etat De Gestation by Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste
Click to embiggen This one is definitely worth clicking to embiggen. It’s from the very detailed, very large Histoire générale et particulière du développement des […]
Recreating trepanation: how they poked holes in people’s heads (to heal them).
Siberian Times, the paper of record for the taiga, reports on the first successful reconstruction of ancient brain surgery: Neurosurgeons have been working with anthropologists […]
Insects in tiny space suits. Real ones. In a vacuum.
Can’t beat NBC’s headline for this: Insects Wear Tiny Spacesuits, for Science: Scanning electron microscopes (SEM) provide incredibly detailed images of biological specimens, but the […]
Genghis Khan ain’t the only big daddy.
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 […]
Make science beautiful, researchers.
That, according to Nature, is the call issued by ecologist Stephen Heard, who wants researchers to keep their prose whimsical, funny, elegant and moving: In […]
Birth control hormones linked to brain tumors
Eurekalert releases results of a study that’s found hormonal birth control increases risk of brain tumors: Taking a hormonal contraceptive for at least five years […]
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)
Click to embiggen The full title of this appears to be: “D ß ist der schneck auß dem grund auf gezogen/mit allen notwendigen linien drauß […]
SONG: Sleeping
SONG: “Sleeping.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Naps Help Infants Form Memories“, Laboratory Equipment, 14 January 2015, as used in the post “Naps make memories […]
There’s gold in them thar sewers….
It just ain’t sanitary. Science magazine plumbs the depths of the million-dollar treasure hiding at the municipal waste treatment plant: Metals have long been known […]
We found Beagle 2 on Mars.
Science Daily explains how an orbital camera solved a decade-old Martian mystery: Images taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, […]
Naps make memories (in infants).
Probably us too, but Laboratory Equipment is only looking at the way babies need naps to remember new things: In a study, which is the […]
Science Art: Fig. 10 (Theil eines Stockes von Carchesium polypinum mit zwei Individuen), by Carl Gegenbaur,1870
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, […]
Stone Age man not more advanced than Neanderthals.
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: […]