SONG: Could you tell me your name?
SONG: “Could You Tell Me Your Name?”
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SOURCE: Based on“Anxiety and sleeping pills ‘linked to dementia'”, BBC News, 9 September 2014, as… Read the rest “SONG: Could you tell me your name?”
Science Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreScience Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton
This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreScience Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreScience Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.
This 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
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreScience Art: Mars - Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read more MAVEN’s at Mars.
The skies over the Red Planet, as The New York Times and others are reporting, are getting downright crowded with satellites from Earth. The latest to set up shop – just ahead of the … Read the rest “MAVEN’s at Mars.”
Science Art: Sarcoptes scabiei, from Brockhaus’ Konversations-Lexikon, 1892.
They itch. They dig in and they itch.
These are the mites that cause scabies, the tiny tunnelers, burrowing into the skin and digesting as they go. If your German’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Sarcoptes scabiei, from Brockhaus’ Konversations-Lexikon, 1892.”
India’s Mars probe ready to orbit
Nature reports on India’s preparations for their first interplanetary exploration:
… Read the rest “India’s Mars probe ready to orbit”Mangalyaan, known formally as the Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, was launched by the Indian
Thanks for the rides, former Soviets – Boeing and SpaceX are taking it from here.
NASA has formally announced that two private companies will be taking our astronauts to the International Space Station:
… Read the rest “Thanks for the rides, former Soviets – Boeing and SpaceX are taking it from here.”The CST-100 and Dragon version 2 have been tapped by NASA to carry
Schizophrenia: many diseases in one
Daily Beast looks over Washington University research that’s found that the singular diagnosis of schizophrenia is actually a compound disease, caused by eight different genetic… Read the rest “Schizophrenia: many diseases in one”
Robot cheetah runs free!
Science Daily blows the whistle on the MIT robotics engineers who let the robot cheetah off its tether to run and jump like a wild beast:
… Read the rest “Robot cheetah runs free!”The team recently took the robot for a test run on MIT’s
Science Art: Figure 3, Transverse Section of a Single Cell by F. Bauer, Esq., F.R.S., 1827.
Take a deep breath.
This is the inside of your lung, seen really closely. At the time his was drawn, we weren’t really sure what it did, other than… breathe. … Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 3, Transverse Section of a Single Cell by F. Bauer, Esq., F.R.S., 1827.”
Bendy ceramics.
Science Daily explores the weird, microscopic world of
making ceramics that can bend and twist and smush and reform:
… Read the rest “Bendy ceramics.”Caltech materials scientist Julia Greer and her colleagues…explain
Printing solar cells.
Outside has a hopeful, intriguing report on an Australian company that’s figured out how to print electricity-generating solar cells on plastic… or whatever:
… Read the rest “Printing solar cells.”The Victorian
Worried? Trouble sleeping? Congrats, you might have a higher risk of Alzheimer’s.
BBC reports the in no way worrisome news that researchers have discovered a correlation benzodiazepines (pills for anxiety and sleep) and a hugely increased risk of dementia:
… Read the rest “Worried? Trouble sleeping? Congrats, you might have a higher risk of Alzheimer’s.”A study of
Blue whales have recovered, just about.
It’s taken quite a while, but AP can finally report that blue whales off the coast of California have finally reached pre-whaling-industry levels:
… Read the rest “Blue whales have recovered, just about.”Researchers previously assumed
Kid finds 3,000-year-old sword… while washing his hands.
It helps, as the BBC points out, if you’re washing your hands in a river running through one of the world’s oldest civilizations. But for an 11-year-old boy in China’s… Read the rest “Kid finds 3,000-year-old sword… while washing his hands.”
Science Art: Echinodermata, Plate V detail, by James A. Grieg, 1921
This is the heart (and brain and pretty much anything that’s not an arm) of a brittle star, as sketched for Echinodermata, a study of the sea urchins, sand dollars, sea stars and close… Read the rest “Science Art: Echinodermata, Plate V detail, by James A. Grieg, 1921”
What do you call a dinosaur that isn’t afraid of anything? Dreadnoughtus.
Popular Mechanics celebrates a new *double* record-breaker, a dinosaur bigger than anything that walked the Earth:
… Read the rest “What do you call a dinosaur that isn’t afraid of anything? Dreadnoughtus.”Today an international team of paleontologists unveiled the newest