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 moreLaboratory Equipment (and a bunch of other folks online) is following the story of NASA severing ties with Russia… except for the Space Station:
… Read the rest “Russian/American space tensions rise. (Rockets, not so much.)”NASA employees can’t travel
Laboratory Equipment wards off bad weather with a new finding… that lasers can be used to divert lightning strikes:
… Read the rest “Anti-lightning lasers zap storms.”Currently, high-intensity lasers, produced with modern technology
The Las Vegas Guardian Liberty Voice is turning back the hands of time with the latest study that promises to reverse aging:
… Read the rest “Aging-reversing remedy ready for human trials. It already works on mice.”The study was published in the peer reviewed science journal Cell
Science Daily twists the archaeological order of things around a little. Humans came out of Africa, humans in Africa have domesticated cattle for thousands of years, the easy assumption… Read the rest “Out of the Cattle Crescent.”
This is the face of the man who was ROBBED by the third episode of Cosmos. Planetary motion? Elliptical orbits? Not Newton’s ideas – this guy’s.
And the story of how he … Read the rest “Science Art: Portrait of John Kepler, 1854”
Science Daily has a lively take on computing, with new circuits made of living slime molds:
… Read the rest “Slime logic. Who needs silicon chips?”Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK) and Theresa Schubert (Bauhaus-University
BBC has the full story on a 75 million-year-old giant sea turtle fossil that took a century and a half to put together:
… Read the rest “Fossil bones rejoined after 163 years apart”Atlantochelys mortoni was originally described from a broken arm bone,
If you never thought cosmic loneliness was a computing problem, think again. In Popular Mechanics, SETI leader Seth Shostak says Moore’s Law means we’ll find aliens in the… Read the rest “Faster computers will find aliens.”
SONG: “Starter Home.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “Home Tweet Home: High-Tech Solutions for … Read the rest “SONG: “Starter Home””
This is an old photograph taken through the largest refracting telescope (no mirrors, just a really big lens) in the world, the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin.
Edwin … Read the rest “Science Art: Nebulae in the Pleiades, by the Yerkes Observatory”
Science Daily is rubbing their hands (and stomping their feet) over new breakthroughs in harnessing your everyday movements to power up your batteries:
… Read the rest “Take a walk to charge your phone.”…[Georgia Institute of
Nature reveals proof that elephants recognize individual humans – including the languages used who did them wrong:
… Read the rest “Elephants really never forget… their enemies’ words.”Biologists Karen McComb and Graeme Shannon at the University
National Geographic is hosting a live chat tomorrow with some of the folks on the forefront of space exploration:
… Read the rest “Chat with the folks who are building our future in space….”On March 20 at 2:30 p.m. ET, join us for a live video conversation with space
Nature tries to see what was behind the comet that killed the dinosaurs – and other mass extinctions that seem to happen every 35 million years. One guess: Our solar system passes through… Read the rest “Darker than Nemesis: Was it dark matter that killed the dinosaurs?”
The New York Times looks at the first new research into LSD therapy in four decades:
… Read the rest “LSD is back in the lab… helping people face death.”“I’d never taken the drug before, so I was feeling — well, I think the proper word for it, in English, is dread,”
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