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 […]
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 moreKomodo 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
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: […]