SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreThis is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreDiscover Magazine tries to put the record straight, revealing that the supposedly septic-mouthed Komodo dragons have been getting a bad rap:
… Read the rest “Komodo dragons’ lethal, bone-crushing jaws not all *that* dirty.”But of all the terrible tales told about these
Awww – is a teeny tiny tinamou!
It’s from this 1868 issue of Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library collection, apparently… Read the rest “Science Art: Chick and Egg of Tinamou &c, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, February 13, 1868”
Space.com looks hungrily to the stars… neutron stars, where a whole new form of matter makes seriously strange space spaghetti:
… Read the rest “Not solid, liquid, gas or plasma. Nuclear pasta.”A rare state of matter dubbed “nuclear pasta”
Nature bemoans the fact that America’s technological prowess is on the wane – and it’s getting really obvious that our science fleet has seen better days:
… Read the rest “A scientific mission to seek out new life and maybe some more duct tape. And baling wire.”“The community
SONG: “Inside My Eyes” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “Fossil brain teaser: New study reveals patterns… Read the rest “SONG: “Inside My Eyes””
Scientific American dwells on the implications of us – inadvertently AND fully intentionally – sending messages out to aliens:
… Read the rest “Hey, @aliens! So this is where we are, and this is what we do! KThxBye!”We’ve made a few attempts at METI (messaging
Voice of America tracks something we were looking forward to here a while back – the blossoming potential of linking together Africa’s own space programs:
… Read the rest “Rocket Africa: the next pathway to space.”Observers looking
If you needed any more proof we’re actually living in the pulp future of a 1920s dime novel, explorers have just used airborne lasers to reveal a long-lost jungle city:
… Read the rest “Jungle city discovered by laser.”The discovery
The Guardian reveals a genuine government plot to infiltrate social networks with Fakey McFake IDs:
… Read the rest “Sock-puppet G-men keeping tabs on the Twitter.”A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command
New Scientist gives thanks for the little things in the wake of the Big One. Studying the irradiated cells of bomb-test survivors (that is, all of us) has shown definitively that our brains… Read the rest “The Bomb proves that our brains keep growing.”
That scratch going up the left half of the picture might look like an accidental blemish, but it’s actually the first trace of a positron (a fundamental unit of antimatter) ever recorded.… Read the rest “Science Art: Positron Discovery by C.D. Anderson”
Bioscience Technology opens our eyes to the groundbreaking researchers who have discovered a whole new layer of the human cornea:
… Read the rest “Look closer. We discovered a whole new body part – and it’s in your eye.”The new layer has been dubbed the Dua’s Layer after the
Nature looks at some strange mice and even stranger methodology used to map their brains – by using light to turn OCD on and off:
… Read the rest “Switching the light on and off to switch OCD on and off.”Researchers have both created and relieved symptoms
Smithsonian joins the celestial chorus singing the praises of a new way to process astronomical data. A software package called xSonify is turning the sounds of space into music:
… Read the rest “I don’t know that quasar – can you hum a few bars?”For most
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