Little lost Chinese rover: “Good night, planet Earth. Good night, humanity.”
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 […]
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 moreLet’s bake up some stem cells!
Nature‘s sharing a recipe to make your own stem cells from scratch – by reprogramming ordinary cells in an acid bath: In 2006, Japanese researchers […]
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
Click to embiggen An illustration illustrating illustration. This is how standardized maps are made. These are the standards. From The preparation of illustrations for reports […]
Monarch migration may be over. Forever.
Laboratory Equipment has some bad news for butterflies: After steep and steady declines in the previous three years, the black-and-orange butterflies now cover only 1.65 […]
Boeing announces (with much hype) new way to turn deserts into biofuel farms.
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 […]
There’s no such thing as a black hole. (Says Stephen Hawking.)
Nature reveals that one of the planet’s top physicists has lost his faith in one of the heaviest things in astrophysics: In a paper posted […]
Bullied kids don’t exercise.
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: […]
Grandpa shrew lived with the dinosaurs.
And now, Discovery News says, we know what he looked like – the early human ancestor who lived with the dinosaurs: This ancestor, the first […]
Science Art: Cuesta de Viento Reservoir, Argentina, by USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.
Click to embiggen This is the EROS image of the week, because the U.S. Geological Survey believes in science-as-art, too.
SONG: “The Impossible One”
SONG: “The Impossible One” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Earth-mass exoplanet is no Earth twin,” Nature, 6 January […]
Biofuel done cheaper (thanks to sulfuric acid).
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 […]
Say hi to Rosetta, the tweeting comet probe.
She’s European. And she’s making all kinds of friends on the Twitter: ESA Rosetta Mission @ESA_Rosetta 4h Labas, pasauli! Expand Reply Retweet Favorite … ESA […]
Later school starting times make for better students.
Laboratory Equipment explains why moving the morning bell a little later makes education more effective: Julie Boergers, a psychologist and sleep expert from the Bradley […]
Science Art: Spark Test For Hardness Of Metal, 1941
From the US Naval Research Laboratory manual Mechanical Practice. There’s also a *great* diagram of Phillips-head screws.
Earth-like planets might not be so Earth-like… as gassy Earth shows.
Nature examines he implications of a planet that *should* be a twin to Earth, but isn’t – because it’s a gassy Earth-sized planet: Not only […]