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 […]
Science 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 moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreFlying 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 […]
Pitchers tell evolution’s story
Nature draws an ancient lesson from America’s favorite pastime, observing how baseball pitchers reveal the evolution of human beings: “Throwing projectiles probably enabled our ancestors […]
Komodo dragons’ lethal, bone-crushing jaws not all *that* dirty.
Discover Magazine tries to put the record straight, revealing that the supposedly septic-mouthed Komodo dragons have been getting a bad rap: But of all the […]
Science Art: Chick and Egg of Tinamou &c, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, February 13, 1868
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 […]
Not solid, liquid, gas or plasma. Nuclear pasta.
Space.com looks hungrily to the stars… neutron stars, where a whole new form of matter makes seriously strange space spaghetti: A rare state of matter […]
A scientific mission to seek out new life and maybe some more duct tape. And baling wire.
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 […]
Science Art: Ceratosaurus & Dryosaurus in Carnegie Museum, photo by Kordite.
That’s a dryosaurus being hunted. Not a dysalotosaurus. Probably…. Photo from