Jaws. (As in what you eat with.) This fish had ’em first.
ABC (the Australian one) reveals a whale of a prehistoric puzzle piece – or at least a missing link that paleontologists have finally reeled in: […]
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 moreCatch a snooze, take a whiff and conquer fear.
Washington Post rousingly reports on a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and, um, aromatic approach to deep-seated anxiety – with a psychological trick to beat fear with smells […]
SONG: “Better Man”
SONG: “Better Man” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Just thinking about science triggers moral behavior,” Scientific American, 27 […]
Science Art: Beetle (ASIC) by Sven Loechner
The Beetle (ASIC) is a chip designed for the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator designed to recreate the Big Bang. It’s part of […]
Stay in bed for 70 days, get paid $18,000, help the cause of space exploration. Hat trick!
Outside has an enticing offer for the world’s fittest couch potatoes and La-Z-Boy astronauts. A new NASA project wants YOU to lie in bed for […]
Music sharpens your brain responses.
Laboratory Equipment investigates the connection between musical training and quick brain responses: Scientists have long known that moving to a steady beat requires synchronization between […]
When robots get 21-gun salutes.
PBS is holding a conversation with Reddit about anthropomorphism and what happens when soldiers start treating their machines like comrades – tools with personalities: “They […]
Green cement is strong cement. Sweet, strong cement.
Laboratory Equipment reports on byproduct of the sugar industry that happens to make a more effective, environmentally friendly cement: New research from the Niels Bohr […]
The scientific secrets of whale earwax.
You want to learn about the hidden history of the ocean? Look within, Nature says… within the earwax of a mighty blue whale: The team, […]
3D smartphone display, no glasses required.
We’re getting closer to having hologram projectors in our pockets, as befits people living in the future. PhysOrg reports on the latest step – a […]
Science Art: Saturn V S-II (Stage Two), NASA illustration.
This is the second stage of the Saturn V rocket – where liquid hydrogen and smoked salmon liquid oxygen were combined to make fuel and […]
Living gears found in little bug’s legs.
This was all over Reddit and ScienceDaily today, because it’s cool. Biologists have found the first example of machine-like gears in a living organism, a […]
NATO creates electronic-stopping beam.
The Telegraph is comparing it to a James Bond movie – a ray that makes any electronic devices in range stop working: Scientists from the […]
Tiny diamonds zap cancer.
PhysOrg has the brilliant news about using itty bitty flecks of precious stones to boost the power of medication to treat exceptionally stubborn cases of […]
Kamikaze moon robot back on track.
The Register is watching the skies as LADEE, NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer probe, heads for its ultimate fate: LADEE took off atop […]