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: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience 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 […]
Aging-reversing remedy ready for human trials. It already works on mice.
The Las Vegas Guardian Liberty Voice is turning back the hands of time with the latest study that promises to reverse aging: The study was […]
Out of the Cattle Crescent.
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 […]
Science Art: Portrait of John Kepler, 1854
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 […]
Slime logic. Who needs silicon chips?
Science Daily has a lively take on computing, with new circuits made of living slime molds: Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, Bristol, […]
Fossil bones rejoined after 163 years apart
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: Atlantochelys mortoni […]
Faster computers will find aliens.
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 […]
SONG: “Starter Home”
SONG: “Starter Home.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Home Tweet Home: High-Tech Solutions for House and Apartment,” New […]
Science Art: Nebulae in the Pleiades, by the Yerkes Observatory
Click to embiggen This is an old photograph taken through the largest refracting telescope (no mirrors, just a really big lens) in the world, the […]
Take a walk to charge your phone.
Science Daily is rubbing their hands (and stomping their feet) over new breakthroughs in harnessing your everyday movements to power up your batteries: …[Georgia Institute […]
Elephants really never forget… their enemies’ words.
Nature reveals proof that elephants recognize individual humans – including the languages used who did them wrong: Biologists Karen McComb and Graeme Shannon at the […]
Chat with the folks who are building our future in space….
National Geographic is hosting a live chat tomorrow with some of the folks on the forefront of space exploration: On March 20 at 2:30 p.m. […]