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 […]
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 moreLater 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 […]
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) […]
Caffeine 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 […]