SONG: “The Road We Wander”
SONG: “The Road We Wander.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Monarch migration may become extinct,” Laboratory Equipment, 30 […]
Science Art: Body-centered cubic (bcc) unit cell of iron, 2009
If you were curious about the crystalline structure of iron mentioned in the last post, here it is — a molecul…
Read moreScience Art: MOON: For the Benefit of Humanity, 2023
It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreScience Art: Bubble chamber with colour enhanced tracks, 2026
This is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreScience Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.
Starfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
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Science Art: Cotylorhynchus, by Nix
The Tumblr illustrator Nix is having a paleoart February, creating a new illustration of a non-dinosaur, non-pterosaur prehistoric creature every day of the month. This […]
Guild Salute: Michael Hearst, Songs for Unusual Creatures
Michael Hearst! Composer! Writer! Player of atypical instruments! Science fan! You are compiling instrumentals based on wonderful animals, like the glass frog, the magnapinna squid, […]
Like a Bridge Over Troubled Cream… no, wait. South Central Skim? *Nightmilking*?
Modern Farmer reports on ongoing research that’s found that cows make more milk when listening to R.E.M. and Simon & Garfunkel: Many dairies in the […]
Elephants empathize.
Science magazine reaches out with new research showing that elephants don’t just mourn their dead, but also try to comfort those in anguish: The study […]
Native Americans go back longer than we thought.
Nature examines a DNA test on a “Clovis boy,” whose DNA proves that 12,000 years ago, the ancestors of today’s Native Americans were already here: […]
Mother’s milk made to order.
Breastfeeding, the Australian Broadcasting Corp tells us, is a little more bespoke than one might expect: “Mothers are producing different biological recipes for sons and […]
Science Art: Life restoration of Ischigualastia jenseni, by Smokeybjb
Click to embiggen Here’s a little (calf-sized being “little” here) fella from the Triassic period (the first of the three periods of dinosaur rule on […]
A cure for love.
New Scientist examines the biochemical roots of the emotion we call “love” – and the chemicals we could take to reverse the symptoms: …[E]thics aside, […]
Buildings kill just about one billion birds a year.
Ecowatch reveals how our cities act as killing machines, with a new study that’s determined that buildings kill nearly one billion birds every year: In […]
Diuretic drug appears to help autism.
Nature explains the unusual effects that chloride ions can have on our developing brains, and what that means for a drug that seems to help […]
Latest graphene surprise: a better conductor than expected.
Or: “Weird substance gets weirder.” Nature has more on how the latest tests have thrown models of how carbon circuits are supposed to work into […]
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: 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 […]