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: 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 moreScience Art: Ceratosaurus & Dryosaurus in Carnegie Museum, photo by Kordite.
That’s a dryosaurus being hunted. Not a dysalotosaurus. Probably…. Photo from
SONG: “Inside My Eyes”
SONG: “Inside My Eyes” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Fossil brain teaser: New study reveals patterns of dinosaur […]
Hey, @aliens! So this is where we are, and this is what we do! KThxBye!
Scientific American dwells on the implications of us – inadvertently AND fully intentionally – sending messages out to aliens: We’ve made a few attempts at […]
Rocket Africa: the next pathway to space.
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: […]
Jungle city discovered by laser.
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 […]
Sock-puppet G-men keeping tabs on the Twitter.
The Guardian reveals a genuine government plot to infiltrate social networks with Fakey McFake IDs: A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United […]
The Bomb proves that our brains keep growing.
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 […]
Science Art: Positron Discovery by C.D. Anderson
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 […]
Look closer. We discovered a whole new body part – and it’s in your eye.
Bioscience Technology opens our eyes to the groundbreaking researchers who have discovered a whole new layer of the human cornea: The new layer has been […]
Switching the light on and off to switch OCD on and off.
Nature looks at some strange mice and even stranger methodology used to map their brains – by using light to turn OCD on and off: […]
I don’t know that quasar – can you hum a few bars?
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 […]
Perfect pitch isn’t.
Science Daily sticks it to the people with an innate ear for what’s a C and what isn’t. Apparently, “perfect pitch” can be fooled: Absolute […]
Science Art: Hover Whales (from Suggestions to the keepers of the U.S. life-saving stations, light-houses, and light-ships; and to other observers, relative to the best means of collecting and preserving specimens of whales and porpoises. By Frederick W. True.)
Image originally from Suggestions to the keepers of the U.S. life-saving stations, light-houses, and light-ships; and to other observers, relative to the best means of […]
SONG: “Beautiful People” (a penitential Books cover)
SONG: “Beautiful People” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is a cover (a late one) making up for […]