A tsunami on the surface of the sun.
BBC has video footage taken by NASA’s SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) and Japan’s Hinode spacecraft, two satellites that have just filmed a tsunami on the […]
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 moreNew language being born in Australia
I heard this on NPR, but it’s been doing the rounds lately – as all happy news should. Rather than mourning the death of yet […]
You don’t get bitten because you’re so sweet. Well, not exactly….
Smithsonian explains summer’s great mystery – why mosquitoes find some victims sweeter: An estimated 20 percent of people, it turns out, are especially delicious for […]
Prehistoric art shows psychedelic traces, scientists say.
Alternet (of course) spreads the news that researchers studying our earliest ancestors have collected some intriguing proof that cave painters were tripping: Their thesis intriguingly […]
NASA 3D prints a rocket engine part.
BBC has the details on the space-agency’s successful test of a printed fuel injector: The part is used to deliver liquid oxygen and hydrogen gas […]
Science Art: Plan for the Muscles of the Eye by John Bell, 1810
A striking gaze from Engravings of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints, Illustrating the First Volume of the Anatomy of the Human Body by John Bell, […]
The backyard plasma ships (that you can help build).
Laboratory Equipment spreads the word (and we’re spreading it farther) about these space scientists who’ve decided to use Kickstarter to send the first plasma-drive ship […]
Flying robot lands on aircraft carrier.
I’m not sure whether to be in awe of this or to be totally blase. But Reuters is reporting that for the first time, an […]
Frederick Kaufman wants to open-source genetically modified crops. And maybe save the planet.
Slate has printed his controversial plan to live up to the promise of gene science without the industrial agriculture downside: The GMO story has become […]
Wanna help explore the ocean? You can.
Nature reports on a new initiative to crowdsource oceanography: Just about the first action involved in any experiment at sea is the casting overboard of […]
Make marshes, keep Earth cool.
Laboratory Equipment recommends getting bogged down to prevent global warming, with research that shows man-made marshes can fight climate change: …[S]ays Bill Mitsch, director of […]
NASA answers 7-year-old’s letter.
Stay cool, space explorers. Never change.
Science Art: Black Hole Lensing by Urbane Legend
An animated GIF (if it’s not moving for you, click the link) showing what it looks like if you’re looking at a black hole when […]
Hipster heat maps and yuppie data visualizations
Slate brings psychogeography a step closer to the mainstream, highlighting software that uses word frequency to show what kinds of people are in what parts […]
Telescope contact lenses are a real thing.
Extreme Tech has the details on the contacts that let you see like an eagle: The center of the lens allows light to pass straight […]