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 has more on the weird quantum effects that make consciousness go bye-bye: General anaesthetics may extinguish consciousness through mysterious quantum biological effects that […]
Laboratory Equipment reveals recent findings (as cannabis becomes easier to research) that the marijuana plant might make better supercapacitors than the “wonder material” graphene: David […]
Ain’t that modern life all over? Real Clear Science exposes the (potentially) stinky way antiperspirants alter your armpit bacteria: While most of us might only […]
Science 2.0 has more on the discovery of lots of phthalates in fine European wines: It isn’t just the booze itself, a group of scholars […]
Click to embiggen This is from the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections in the Biodiversity Library. I bet there’s all *kinds* of things in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous […]
Science Daily has yet more research on the heritability of stress, with research that shows the effects of stress on one pregnant mom can last […]
Scientific American reports on the technology that’ll help humans explore the Red Planet… first with fuel, then with air to breathe. The next machine to […]
Orbiting a planet is not that big a deal – moons do it all the time. And everyone you’ve ever known has orbited a sun. […]
Nature offers one of the least comforting explanations for a mysterious hole in Siberia. It wasn’t from an asteroid or a rogue telephone-pole-installing crew. The […]
Science World Report takes a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed look at the mutation that makes some people chipper, functional early risers: The researchers turned to 100 pairs […]
Click to embiggen From The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive Engines in Operation, found on archive.org. The book seems to […]
VCU researchers have found a cool way to boost your body’s supply of (metabolism-raising) brown fat cells – by turning down your air conditioning: Researchers […]
Science Daily reveals the record-breaking brooding period of the deep-sea octopus: In May 2007, during one of these surveys, the researchers discovered a female octopus […]
Nature shares satellite data that shows not only lakes, rivers and reservoirs shrinking across the whole U.S. Southwest, but even water underground is going away: […]
That’s what Sci-News.com and Science Daily are reporting that University of Toronto researchers have found. A trove of thousands of really really old tools: Science […]
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