My, madam, what a spiky member you have… in me….
Nature has published an article about a cave insect that combines the words “marathon sex session” with “the female’s spiky penis”: In desolate caves throughout […]
Science Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience Art: Diagram to show relations in ovum in ovo, 1899.
Click to embiggen From the sizzling pages of The American Naturalist on May 1, 1889, comes Francis H. Herrick’s fascinating study of an egg that […]
Howdy, neighbor!
Universe Today celebrates a Goldilocks discovery. The Kepler mission has found a planet just the right size and in just the right place to have […]
A vision machine (as in, it gives you visions).
Science magazine turns on yet another way electromagnetism can alter the way we think and remember – by switching on vivid visual hallucinations: A 22-year-old […]
Children can inherit their parents’ trauma… through Dad’s sperm.
Nature reveals how parents who live through something horrible can have children who inherit depression and anxiety – biologically, through their RNA – from traumas […]
Tobacco will save us all.
Science Daily has the skinny on how we might wind up using fast-growing, high-density tobacco to save the planet from global warming – by creating […]
Science Art: Ventral view of an adult small hive beetle, Aethina tumida Murray, by Josephine Ratikan.
Florida beekeepers, know your enemy.
Broken Bells – indie band, interplanetary heroes.
The Verge explains how a Danger Mouse and The Shins’ James Mercer have joined forces to make some pretty good music… and to save us […]
Kids these days… so *sober*.
ABC (the Australian network) muses on the next generation… wondering why the kids are avoiding alcohol nowadays: The findings of a survey of more than […]
Tree batteries. No, capacitors. No, *super* capacitors.
Laboratory Equipment on a low-tech material that solves a high-tech problem, as chemical engineers figure out ways to make supercapacitors out of wood: OSU chemists […]
Procrastination and impulsivity are linked… in your genes.
Science Daily tries to find the evolutionary roots of …oooh, shiny! I’ll finish this tomorrow: From an evolutionary standpoint, impulsivity makes sense: Our ancestors should […]
Enough garbage to hide a jumbo jet.
That, National Geographic has come out and said, is the sorry state of our oceans, as the ongoing search for Malaysian Airlines 370 has tragically […]
Science Art: Hubble Views Stellar Genesis in the Southern Pinwheel
Click to embiggen This is a galaxy named M83, which is usually a faint smudge in the constellation Hydra. Up close, however, Hubble Space Telescope […]
Russian/American space tensions rise. (Rockets, not so much.)
Laboratory Equipment (and a bunch of other folks online) is following the story of NASA severing ties with Russia… except for the Space Station: NASA […]
Anti-lightning lasers zap storms.
Laboratory Equipment wards off bad weather with a new finding… that lasers can be used to divert lightning strikes: Currently, high-intensity lasers, produced with modern […]