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 […]
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 morePerfect 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 […]
Breast-feeding grows brains.
Futurity hops on the lactation train with a study that proves breastfed babies grow their brains earlier and better: [T]his is the first imaging study […]
SciAm’s 30 under 30 – and a pack of Nobel laureates they can mingle with.
Scientific American looks forward to an experimental party. We’re going to watch what happens when you put 30 young chemists in a room with some […]
Specific numbers make negotiations more favorable. For you. Not the other guy.
Doesn’t matter who you are or what you want, University Herald explains. The negotiator who asks for the specific number gets the upper hand: Research […]
Synthetic skin for a more sensitive robot.
New Scientist explores the gentler side of our eventual mechanical overlords, as engineers create a sensor-studded skin for a gentle, sensitive robot: Most robots are […]
The smarter you are, the less you’ll be distracted by large-scale…. Wait, what was I saying?
BBC puts on a big show about how smart folks’ brains filter out big background motions – a capacity that proves that intelligence is really… […]
Science Art: VASIMR (Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket)
Click to embiggen This is one way we might visit that rosy Saturn hurricane from last week. It’s VASIMR, a rocket engine that uses plasma […]
Breast milk makes antibiotics work better.
Or, Sci-News.com seems to be saying, a protein from breast milk at least undoes
Google brings the internet to Africa. By blimp.
The Telegraph reports on (or, at least, repeats Wired‘s reporting on) the dirigibles spreading the World Wide Web to places no internet has gone before: […]
Twin beams of light make fiberoptics better.
By about four times, BBC reports. Using double beams of light quadruples the data capacity of fiber-optic cables: What limits the distance a given light […]
Paint your own circuits with electronic pens.
PhysOrg gives new meaning to “magic marker” with these pens that draw flexible circuits in whatever shape you like: London-based Bare Conductive Ltd. makes electrically […]
Science Art: “The Rose,” NASA Image of the Day Gallery,
This is not actually a flower. It’s a giant hurricane – Saturn’s answer to Jupiter’s Big Red Spot. From the NASA Image of the Day […]