This robot flies like jellyfish swim.
BBC describes the first drone that can hover by flapping its wings: The work by Leif Ristroph and Stephen Childress from New York University (NYU) […]
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 moreCaffeine improves your memory.
And your mood, of course, but Laboratory Equipment doesn’t get into that. No, all they focus on is the boost caffeine gives your long-term memory: […]
Stories change your brain.
Washington Post has more on how a bit of literature can alter the structure of your brain: “Stories shape our lives and in some cases […]
Rarer than pterodactyl footprints…
Times of India reports that they’ve just found some pterosaur footprints in north India’s Jaisalmer Basin: “Near the Thaiyat Village on the Jaisalmer-Jodhpur highway there […]
Science Art: The Kepler Orrery II
Click to view animation. A visualization of every solar system discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope as of February 2012 – that’s 885 plaents in […]
Steampunk solutions: 19th-century tech used by Sandia fusion researchers
Laboratory Equipment has more on the Helmholz coil (a bit of antique lab machinery) and how one of its strange qualities might help Sandia’s “Z […]
The impossible planet.
SEN has us baffled by a recently discovered planet that shouldn’t be there: The new world is the farthest out from its home star of […]
Earthquake lights go deeper
Nature looks at the widening gap in understanding earthquake lights… not a gap in our knowledge, but in the ground, as fault lines pull apart […]
A positron and an electron walk into a bar…
The Guardian polls scientists to get their favorite (and corniest) science jokes: ? A weed scientist goes into a shop. He asks: “Hey, you got […]
Science Art: Bldng40cropped.jpg (CERN office building 40), by Gillis Danielsen.
Click to embiggen This is where European scientists work on experiments for the Compact Muon Spectrometer and Atlas, the project that found the Higgs boson. […]
Sound levitation. No magnets. Sound.
The Telegraph marvels at physicists learning how to levitate and move solid objects using sound waves: They then levitate match heads, drops of water, screws […]
Dogs poop in alignment with the Earth’s magnetic field
I can’t even begin with this one. But yes, researchers at the Czech University of Agriculture have determined that dogs orient themselves to magnetic north […]
Hey, You Two on the Moon – You and Yutu!
Universe Today is showing off NASA snapshops of China’s Chang’e3 lunar lander and Yutu lunar rover: According to School of Earth and Space Exploration professor […]
So a shark, a hunter-gatherer and a honeybee walk into a bar…
…and they way they move, ScienceDaily says follows the same mathematical pattern: A mathematical pattern of movement called a Lévy walk describes the foraging behavior […]
Sailing satellites out of orbit
SEN reveals the poetic way we’re planning to keep tomorrow’s satellites from turning into space junk: In low orbits, there is still sufficient atmosphere to […]