Animals are people too.
Or so says National Geographic-profiled biopsychologist Lori Marino, an expert in the brains of “lesser” animals: Formerly a full-fledged research scientist who found measuring the […]
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreE-smell delivered across the Atlantic
Live Science hails a bold new step in connectivity as researchers in New York City successfully transmitted a smell to Paris… via the internet: NEW […]
Music lessons build better brains
Science Daily has MRI proof that all those *boring* scales help switch on problem-solving, better-judgement brain areas: Executive functions are the high-level cognitive processes that […]
No more dentist drills.
The Independent opens wide with a new treatment that promises to help teeth repair themselves: The technique, developed at King’s College London, effectively reverses decay […]
Science Art: “Misirlou” on hard and floppy drives, by Argalnath
Argalnath makes music from hard drives and floppy drives. Like a DJ, Argalnath spins.
Science Art: NASA Satellites [Earth Science Research Spacecraft]
Click to embiggen Look! Look at all the birds! I honestly can’t find where this image came from originally, but it pops up just about […]
Warp engines ready to engage.
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: NASA engineer […]
NASA delays Martian flying saucer.
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 […]
The biggest particle accelerator in the *universe*… is made of galaxies.
Nature writes so calmly about shockwaves of such epic proportions: Four massive clusters of galaxies are plowing into one another at a crash site about […]
Science of dance music: it’s what’s not there that counts.
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 […]
Fish are saving the planet.
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: […]
Science Art: “Dolerite” Dyke Traversing “Desert Sandstone”, 1872.
Click to embiggen From the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 28. It’s a dyke, a rock formation between two layers of […]
Bees know their way. As in they *know*. They remember.
Nature reveals a truth with some odd implications about insects’ inner lives. Memory tests prove that bees are more thoughtful than we realize: “The surprise […]
A beer family tree.
New York Times explores the mapping of a new genome, as researchers chart a family tree of craft beer: After thousands of years of unwitting […]
Meet the Mega-Earth
Harvard researchers have found a whole new kind of planet. It’s just like ours, only way bigger: Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a […]