This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreThis is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreThis is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreThere’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreI found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScientific American (via Nature) has more about Rush Holt’s eight-term Congressional career, and his new gig as CEO of the American Association for the Advancement […]
CBC has more on a study that finds kids adopted from China in infancy still have native speakers’ brain responses to spoken Chinese – even […]
Sorry, was that overdramatic? Science Daily is calmer in reporting that University of California researchers have found that Triclosan, the stuff that makes antibacterial soap […]
Click to embiggen This is a strange bug from PHIL, the CDC’s Public Health Image Library. Not the kind of bug the CDC usually deals […]
Nature tries not to be *too* foreboding about the dark times ahead for Philae: The Philae lander’s drill is now working, but the craft’s batteries […]
Instead of following the usual format today (find story, write lead, post an excerpt), I thought I’d do something a little different. The big story […]
Nature takes a second look at the neurology of feeling a presence right next to you: Some people with relatively rare types of brain injury […]
Medium takes a long look at the Mars One company, which has assembled 200,000 volunteers for a Mars mission that doesn’t yet exist: Despite not […]
IFL Science takes another look (courtesy of ISI Foundation researchers) at magic mushroom trips, and finds some surprises in what exactly psilocybin mushrooms do to […]
Click to embiggen vastly Quoting here from Oudemans’ book: In 1845 Dr. Albert C. Koch, “exhibited a large skeleton of a fossil animal, under the […]
New Scientist has more on WWI germ that can survive all kinds of modern medicines: Ernest Cable was a British soldier who died in 1915 […]
Yes, New Scientist comes up with another headline you just can’t beat: Congratulations testicles, you make more unique proteins than any other tissue in the […]
Science Daily reports on a bug that’ll be keeping some public health officials up nights: The global initiative to eradicate poliomyelitis through routine vaccination has […]
I don’t normally go to Business Insider for science news, but they’ve actually got a pretty good rundown of recent research into the problems with […]
SpaceNews.com has more on the “golf-club bag” we’re devising for space station return deliveries: The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the […]
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