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.)
ARTIST: grant.
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 moreSound like conspiracy theory, doesn’t it? But Space.com is reporting on the easily-forgotten OTHER space shuttle program – the Air Force’s top-secret unmanned shuttle,… Read the rest “Secret U.S. shuttle set to land tomorrow, after two years in space.”
A “phragmocone” is a fancy word for a shell of a nautilus or ammonoid, and “Belemnitella” is a genus of belemnite, which is to say, a … Read the rest “Science Art: Phramgocone of Belemnitella, In Flint, 1851”
Nature breaks the news to behaviorists – and this is more important than it might seem – that fish don’t really think mirrors are uninvited strangers:
… Read the rest “Fish researchers: “Our mirrors have become USELESS!””“There’s
National Geographic explains why cave paintings in Sulawesi are winding back the origin of “art” as a concept to our African origins:
… Read the rest “Asian cave paintings reveal universal art.”“Overwhelmingly depicted in
Even, Nature explains, from cows that have never been around antibiotics. Something about cow manure runoff helps resistant bacteria grow in the soil:
… Read the rest “Manure fertilizer boosts antibiotic resistance… somehow.”Because manure itself is known to
International Business Times reveals the bright future (from an economic standpoint, at least) of the nascent companies making clear solar panels:
… Read the rest “Clear solar panels could turn windows (and smart phones) into power plants.”The “transparent luminescent solar
Daily Beast has more on how 204 billion tons of melting glaciers have changed the way our planet’s gravity works:
… Read the rest “Antarctica has melted so much, it’s changing Earth’s gravitational profile.”Between 2009 and 2012, the years for which GOCE was taking data, the
An image from Rockets and Satellites Work Like This, as found on the marvelous Dreams of Space blog. It’s a children’s book about the then-current Space Race… Read the rest “Science Art: A space-ship might look like this, John W. Wood, 1968.”
You probably know about the Moller SkyCar and you might have heard of the Terrafugia “roadable plane.” Well, now, The Guardian is reporting on a new, European car that flies… Read the rest “New flying car has landed.”
The Gajitz blog has the scoop on the kid who invented a battery-free flashlight that runs on body heat:
… Read the rest “Teenager’s bright idea: flashlight fueled by body heat.”Ann Makosinski, a 15 year old student from Canada, made a flashlight for her science
Washington Post reveals a secret scientific conspiracy to sneak as many Bob Dylan lyrics into publications as possible:
… Read the rest “Is a hard rain gonna fall… on scientists who’re slipping Dylan lyrics into their articles?”While writing an article about intestinal gasses 17 years ago,
Dezeen, the design magazine, gives the specs on a high-tech suit that cleans the air around the wearer:
… Read the rest “Clean suit filters pollution out of the air. (And hooks you up to the internet.)”Designers Borre Akkersdijk and Eva de Laat collaborated with Martijn ten Bhomer from
This is from a government report – from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a precursor to NASA – on L’Oiseau Blanc, an aircraft used … Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 2 from “Drawings, views and engine of the Levasseur transatlantic plane” in NACA Aircraft Circular #50, Levasseur 8 Transatlantic Airplane, 1927.”
National Geographic reveals the newest Panamanian sensation to enter the world of science:
… Read the rest “New poison dart frog discovered. Tiny. Cute. Poisonous. But tiny. And cute.”A new species of poison dart frog so teeny it can fit on a fingernail has been discovered in a rain
Nature examines – and possibly answers – a long-standing archaeological puzzle. How did a bunch of unrelated paleolithic people in different parts of the world develop the… Read the rest “How all the Stone Age people learned the same tricks at the same time.”
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