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.)
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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 moreThe Guardian has more on the power-station throwdown in which solar power is winning the race:
… Read the rest “Solar power beats coal, in (Australian) dollars and cents.”Last week, for the first time in memory, the wholesale price of electricity in Queensland fell
Nature has more on the suitably self-recursive premiere of a uniquely mathematical piece of music:
… Read the rest “Gödel music composition to debut at Gödel Prize celebration.”The piece, “The Hilbert Heartbreak Hotel” by Danish composer Niels Marthinsen, was
Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on how old smart phones are being used to listen for disrupted sleep patterns, illegal loggers, gunshots, breeding cicadas and a host of other… Read the rest “Old phones are listening.”
This is a bat from Tajikstan. According to the 2002 State of the Environment Report, it’s a rare bat. The European free-tailed bat.
No, he doesn’t look very free in that image.… Read the rest “Science Art: Tadarida teniotis Rafinesque.”
Irish Central has more on the pristine site in a little village in County Louth that used to be a Viking winter base:
… Read the rest ““Mind-blowing” Viking discovery made in Ireland.”Geophysical tests funded by Dundalk’s County Museum have allowed scientists
Science Daily has us imagining that message being broadcast to an an interstellar ship full of would-be colonists, thanks to new research that’s found some so-called “Goldilocks… Read the rest ““Sorry, but your new home is a cosmic burp.””
Not just fresher, says PopSci, but better for transplants:
… Read the rest “Supercooled livers stay alive longer”The procedure was part of an experimental new method for treating donated organs. The method is still in its early stages of development,
OK, maybe “spilling” is a little imprecise, but Scientific American has the details on how to use a blood plasma extract to clean E. coli out of drinking water:
… Read the rest “Clean up E. coli by spilling some human proteins on it.”The elegant method,
As the U.S. Geological Survey puts it:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Polar Bear – POV Cams (Spring 2014), by the USGS”This video was edited and compiled from raw footage recorded by a camera equipped radio collar that was put on a female polar bear in the Beaufort Sea
Scientific American lauds the state long linked with oil money for breaking wind power production records:
… Read the rest “Lone Star? Windmill! Green energy booms in Texas.”The Lone Star State hit “peak wind” at 8:48 p.m. on March 26, when the state’s wind
Stop studying. Take a nap. That’s the message from Catholic University of Leuven researchers who found that one more hour of sleep makes a big difference to your grade:
… Read the rest “One hour more of sleep makes a measurable difference”Additionally,
SONG: “Colonies.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “Bees build mental maps to get home”, Nature… Read the rest “SONG: “Colonies””
I love peppergrass. This is a great illustration of the middle part of the plant – there are actually some narrow, spiky-looking leaves that are even tastier. (I … Read the rest “Science Art: Peppergrass, by Zoe Keller”
Or so says National Geographic-profiled biopsychologist Lori Marino, an expert in the brains of “lesser” animals:
… Read the rest “Animals are people too.”Formerly a full-fledged research scientist who found
Live Science hails a bold new step in connectivity as researchers in New York City successfully transmitted a smell to Paris… via the internet:
… Read the rest “E-smell delivered across the Atlantic”NEW YORK — The first transatlantic
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