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 moreMiami Herald gets the low-down on the underground 305 – hidden under Miami streets and condos and neon-lit skyscrapers, there’s a prehistoric village (and a priceless piece… Read the rest “2,000-year-old village uncovered… in downtown Miami.”
Science Daily reveals the tricks that the present plays on our memories:
… Read the rest “Neuroscientists: Your memory is a fiction.”This the first study to show specifically how memory is faulty, and how it can insert things from the present into
The Independent covers the poignant final hours of China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover as the rolling robot bids a sad farewell to the folks back home:
… Read the rest “Little lost Chinese rover: “Good night, planet Earth. Good night, humanity.””…Jade Rabbit – named
Nature‘s sharing a recipe to make your own stem cells from scratch – by reprogramming ordinary cells in an acid bath:
… Read the rest “Let’s bake up some stem cells!”In 2006, Japanese researchers reported1 a technique for
An illustration illustrating illustration. This is how standardized maps are made. These are the standards.
From The preparation of illustrations for reports of the… Read the rest “Science Art: Water Features and Relief Features, from The preparation of illustrations for reports of the United States Geological survey, with brief descriptions of processes of reproduction, 1920”
Laboratory Equipment has some bad news for butterflies:
… Read the rest “Monarch migration may be over. Forever.”After steep and steady declines in the previous three years, the black-and-orange butterflies now cover only 1.65 acres (0.67
Energy Post calls it “the BIGGEST BREAKTHROUGH EVER!” That seems a bit much, but it is interesting that a Boeing-sponsored group in Abu Dhabi has figured out how to make super-clean,… Read the rest “Boeing announces (with much hype) new way to turn deserts into biofuel farms.”
Nature reveals that one of the planet’s top physicists has lost his faith in one of the heaviest things in astrophysics:
… Read the rest “There’s no such thing as a black hole. (Says Stephen Hawking.)”In a paper posted online, the physicist, based at the University
Seems kinda obvious to anyone who’s been picked on, but Outside is taking a long-term look at how bullying affects kids’ will to work out:
… Read the rest “Bullied kids don’t exercise.”The study, spearheaded by BYU psychology
And now, Discovery News says, we know what he looked like – the early human ancestor who lived with the dinosaurs:
… Read the rest “Grandpa shrew lived with the dinosaurs.”This ancestor, the first placental mammal, lived between 88.3 to
This is the EROS image of the week, because the U.S. Geological Survey believes in science-as-art, too.
SONG: “The Impossible One” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “Earth-mass exoplanet is no Earth twin,”… Read the rest “SONG: “The Impossible One””
Nature is predigesting our gasoline… or something like that. Researchers have found that you can get fuel out of some tough material by treating it with a chemical mixture that breaks… Read the rest “Biofuel done cheaper (thanks to sulfuric acid).”
She’s European. And she’s making all kinds of friends on the Twitter:
… Read the rest “Say hi to Rosetta, the tweeting comet probe.”ESA Rosetta Mission @ESA_Rosetta 4h
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Laboratory Equipment explains why moving the morning bell a little later makes education more effective:
… Read the rest “Later school starting times make for better students.”Julie Boergers, a psychologist and sleep expert from the Bradley Hasbro Children’s
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