Science Art:Bacterial morphology diagram, by Mariana Ruiz
It could be the new collection of shower curtains and matching towels at Target. But no – pleasant though they may be to look at, these shapes make us feel bad.
Found on Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreScience Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton
This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreScience Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreScience Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.
This 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
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreScience Art: Mars - Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreGonorrhea is coming back.
The Verge is rolling out the red carpet to welcome back the clap:
… Read the rest “Gonorrhea is coming back.”…[P]enicillin and various tetracyclines have all stopped working against the most prevalent strains. This means
New class of antibiotics may kill MRSA.
Science Daily has promising research from Notre Dame in the fight against antibiotic-resistant germs – a new class of chemicals that should kill bacteria like MRSA, the “super… Read the rest “New class of antibiotics may kill MRSA.”
Are antibiotics making us obese?
The New York Times investigates the strange history of American antibiotics – and how the medicine hailed as a “superdrug” in the 1940s might have made us an overweight… Read the rest “Are antibiotics making us obese?”
Our air pollution *weakens* hurricanes (but makes them wetter).
Science Daily says “aerosols produced by human activities” – that is, soot and exhaust fumes and all that great air pollution – definitely has an effect on the… Read the rest “Our air pollution *weakens* hurricanes (but makes them wetter).”
This home really speaks to me. Over the internet…
The New York Times looks inside the house of tomorrow, which is staying in touch with its owner via Twitter:
… Read the rest “This home really speaks to me. Over the internet…”So it is with Tom Coates’s San Francisco home, which live-tweets the movements
Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.
Gaze into the eye of the bee, and the colony gazes into you. This is not honeycomb, but the individual components (ommatidia) of a bee’s compound eye.
Full credit … Read the rest “Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.”
Electric current rouses the vegetative after years of unconsciousness.
New Scientist has an amazing new therapy for patients in a vegetative state – using the same direct current-stimulation that increases creative “flow” to turn their… Read the rest “Electric current rouses the vegetative after years of unconsciousness.”
Three-armed cyborg drummer. Yeah. A drummer with a third robot arm.
Georgia Tech researchers are trying to become prosthetic Neal Pearts, Science Daily reports, with an improvising robotic drumming limb:
… Read the rest “Three-armed cyborg drummer. Yeah. A drummer with a third robot arm.”The robotic drumming prosthesis has motors that
Robot swarms that build. By themselves…
Nature digs up the info on the termite robots built this castle:
… Read the rest “Robot swarms that build. By themselves…”The robots all work independently. Each travels along a grid and can move, climb a step and lift and put down bricks. And they
Giant, prehistoric virus thawed from Siberian permafrost.
New Scientist is not (we hope) introducing a 1950s-style horror film with their story on the giant, prehistoric virus THAT LIVES AGAIN:
… Read the rest “Giant, prehistoric virus thawed from Siberian permafrost.”Dubbed a pithovirus after the Greek pithos, meaning
This laser turns us *on*.
At least if we’re flies, it does. Nature has more on the laser beam that puts flies in the mood for love:
… Read the rest “This laser turns us *on*.”Optogenetics — triggering neurons with light — has been successful in mice but
Science Art: An X-class Solar Flare, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
A scientific visualization from NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio, who have this to say about it:
… Read the rest “Science Art: An X-class Solar Flare, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center”An X-class solar flare erupted on the left side of the sun on the evening of
Should you really eat that lobster? On invertebrates and pain…
New Scientist takes a surprisingly nuanced look at the way things like oysters and shrimp might actually be responding to trauma. They’re not all the same. Research shows that, as… Read the rest “Should you really eat that lobster? On invertebrates and pain…”
Largest space telescope is ready to… observe.
PhysOrg has the skinny on ESA’s Gaia telescope and its quest to catalogue a billion stars:
… Read the rest “Largest space telescope is ready to… observe.”Gaia will be able to discern objects up to 400,000 times dimmer than those visible to the naked