This 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 moreThis is a line drawing of the Apollo mission’s lunar module reaching the Moon, staying a while, and then coming…
Read moreThe American Chemical Society looks at homegrown (or farmed) tomatoes and finds that the way in which they’re watered can make a difference in how well they grow:
… Read the rest “The way you water your tomatoes matters, not just how much you water ’em.”Researchers reporting
Outside reports on a study that finds meditation can have a profound effect not only on your mental wellbeing, but also on your physical endurance and athletic performance:
… Read the rest “Meditate for marathons.”…[R]esearchers
This is how the the US Navy tried to get recruits to stand tall during World War II, with anatomical studies of slouching. How do you know if you’re slouching? Well, here’s how,… Read the rest “Science Art: Illustrations of poor and good posture, 1943.”
Heatmap reports on some SpaceX alums — that is, former employees of the space corporation — who gave up on astronauting in favor of making some things work better down here/ … Read the rest “Using rocket science to make “carbon-negative” energy.”
iScience peers back through the mists of time to the Viking Age, when a saga describes a dead man being tossed down a castle’s well. Now, archaeologists are pretty sure they’ve… Read the rest “They found the body of someone from the sagas.”
Need a lift? These are hooks designed for lifting … well, whatever you need picked up.
I found them in (deep breath): The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices,… Read the rest “Science Art: Hooks, Swivels, &c. ”
The European Space Agency reports on the team who successfully decoded an “alien” transmission actually sent by a probe orbiting Mars as part of a multidisciplinary project… Read the rest “Daddy-daughter alien decoding.”
SONG: “Serotonin” (a penitential girl in red cover). (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This isn’t based on any research; it’s a cover of a girl in red… Read the rest “SONG: “Serotonin” (a penitential girl in red cover)”
Or at least, to be a little closer to what this Current Opinion in Psychology study is really saying, social media creates a false sense of what “normal” is, amplifying every… Read the rest “Social media makes you weird.”
This is what German pastor Johann August Ephraim Goeze dubbed a “tiny water-bear” when he first spotted it among the animacules in the droplets of stagnant water under his … Read the rest “Science Art: Kleiner Wasserbär, 1773”
Science Alert looks at some pretty interesting findings from Anglia Ruskin University researchers on the effects music can have on human physiology… especially in the brain, and… Read the rest “Music can be medicine – especially for dementia.”
I’m not sure what to make of this, other than that it’s a worm that somehow feeds on or otherwise inconveniences tigers and monkeys. So I suppose it’s a tropical or subtropical… Read the rest “Science Art: Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts, by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.”
Science Daily reports on simple organisms called “comb jellies” (a.k.a. “ctenophores”) that have a weird way to overcome physical trauma. If two or more of … Read the rest “Two creatures can become one.”
Ars Technica salutes NOAA hurricane scientist Peter Dodge, who underwent his 387th storm “penetration” aboard an airplane flying into Category 5 Hurricane Milton …… Read the rest “Peter Dodge’s final cyclone.”
This is an artist’s concept of a space probe orbiting Europa, the icy moon of Jupiter that might just hide life in the oceans miles below its frozen surface.
You can read more about the… Read the rest “Science Art: Europa Clipper, Artist’s Concept, by NASA/JPL-Caltech”
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