Chimp civilization found in Congo.
OK, that’s a little hyperbolic, but only a little. The Guardian has more on the last chimp “mega-culture” just found in the central African jungle: […]
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: Occipital View of Skull of Ovibos Moschatus, by W. West & Co., 1866
Click to embiggen This is a very old skull from a Stone Age mammal called Ovibos moschatus, as pictured in A monograph of the British […]
2,000-year-old village uncovered… in downtown Miami.
Miami 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 […]
Neuroscientists: Your memory is a fiction.
Science Daily reveals the tricks that the present plays on our memories: This the first study to show specifically how memory is faulty, and how […]
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 […]
Let’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 […]