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 moreScience Daily has MRI proof that all those *boring* scales help switch on problem-solving, better-judgement brain areas:
… Read the rest “Music lessons build better brains”Executive functions are the high-level cognitive processes
The Independent opens wide with a new treatment that promises to help teeth repair themselves:
… Read the rest “No more dentist drills.”The technique, developed at King’s College London, effectively reverses decay by using
Argalnath makes music from hard drives and floppy drives. Like a DJ, Argalnath spins.
Look! Look at all the birds!
I honestly can’t find where this image came from originally, but it pops up just about everywhere researchers partner with NASA to do … Read the rest “Science Art: NASA Satellites [Earth Science Research Spacecraft]”
Washington Post is ready. We’re all ready. NASA is ready. They’ve figured out a way (maybe!) to explore distant stars with warp drive:
… Read the rest “Warp engines ready to engage.”NASA engineer and physicist Harold White
Who could resist that headline? But no, AP has it right – we’re the ones with the eerie, disc-shaped craft, and we’re trying to send it to Mars:
… Read the rest “NASA delays Martian flying saucer.”The space agency postponed
Nature writes so calmly about shockwaves of such epic proportions:
… Read the rest “The biggest particle accelerator in the *universe*… is made of galaxies.”Four massive clusters of galaxies are plowing into one another at a crash site about five billion light-years from Earth.
Or, as NPR clarifies, what’s not there that makes *us* want to count. With our feet. Studies of syncopation have revealed that it’s absence that makes you want to dance:
… Read the rest “Science of dance music: it’s what’s not there that counts.”Last
Aquaman may have had more going for him than he gets credit for. Scientific American reveals the amazing power fish have to reverse global warming:
… Read the rest “Fish are saving the planet.”By assigning a dollar value to carbon stored
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From the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 28.
It’s a dyke, a rock formation between two layers of Australian rock like jam in a sandwich.… Read the rest “Science Art: “Dolerite” Dyke Traversing “Desert Sandstone”, 1872.”
Nature reveals a truth with some odd implications about insects’ inner lives. Memory tests prove that bees are more thoughtful than we realize:
… Read the rest “Bees know their way. As in they *know*. They remember.”“The surprise comes for many people
New York Times explores the mapping of a new genome, as researchers chart a family tree of craft beer:
… Read the rest “A beer family tree.”After thousands of years of unwitting domestication, brewing yeasts — the microorganisms
Harvard researchers have found a whole new kind of planet. It’s just like ours, only way bigger:
… Read the rest “Meet the Mega-Earth”Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a new type of planet –
A Siberian fisherman netted a priceless archaeological artifact – a little statue from 2000 BCE. No word from the New York Daily News on the one that got away:
… Read the rest “Fisherman reels in pagan god.”Nikolay Tarasov, 53,
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