SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreThis is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreAnd, Wired says, about as thick, too. But this chip can still do everything a GPS can do… without the satellites:
… Read the rest “Military navigator half as big as the engraving on the back of a penny.”At the University of Michigan on Wednesday, researchers for Darpa
This is a few weeks old by now, but still in fashion in a gorgeously disgusting way. Science News celebrates the creation of fine fabrics using hagfish slime:
… Read the rest “Slime couture.”“The tensile properties approach
Robots.net reviews The Pentagon’s latest unmanned drone program – heading underwater with robots named SHARKs (Submarine Hold At RisK):
… Read the rest “SHARK robot for hunting submarines”The robot is designed for Distributed
These are probably the world’s largest petroglyphs. They’re ancient rock carvings that we can see from space.
You can’t make out the funky checkerboards, or the hummingbirds… Read the rest “Science Art: Nazca Lines, Peru, 2000, NASA’s Earth as Art”
Science, Space & Robots brings the paralysis of inhuman knowledge, as creatures tiny and writhing cast their malevolent gazes up at the electron scanning microscope. Sleeping or… Read the rest “Cthulhu lives! He’s just really small. And kinda cute.”
Nature puzzles over an unforeseen consequence of global warming – an expansion of Antarctic sea ice as the climate warms:
… Read the rest “Polar paradox: Warmer planet, larger ice cap.”While sea ice at the North Pole has shrunk substantially
Nature, in what was almost certainly not an April Fools’ gag, reports that there’s genetic evidence, now, that Polynesians traveled to the Amazon in days gone by – because… Read the rest “Tiki Brazil (Thor Heyerdahl was right! Maybe.)”
New Scientist adds up the arguments over bitcoins, the computer-generated form of money. We’re now seeing plans to regulate the imaginary currency:
… Read the rest “Real money. Virtual currency. Hard rules.”Virtual currencies are to be
NPR asks the biggest question of all – the original question. Look around. Why is there something instead of nothing?:
… Read the rest “Why is there something? Anything? Instead of nothing?”The best answer we have at this point is that the Universe emerged
In 1863, naturalist Richard Owen published 72 pages of joy.
Is it related to the lemur? Aye.
Does it climb through the jungle at night? Aye.
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Vice, of all publications, examines the strange chemistry of the first-known psychedelic sponges… trying to figure out why sponges would make something as potent as DMT anyway… Read the rest “Psychedelic sponges. Why?”
Scientific American crunches the numbers that show how the mass of the Higgs boson spells the end of the universe… eventually:
… Read the rest “After everything, the Higgs boson still dooms us all. In a few billion years.”“If you use all the physics that we know now and
SciAm blogger Clarissa Ai Ling Lee reflects on the science and art of visualizing information:
… Read the rest “The power of diagrams. The beauty of diagrams.”Of course, there were records of politics, observations of particular traditions, and stories
New York Times has a pretty good profile of what could be the next big breakthrough in computing – the chips that understand “maybe”:
… Read the rest “Lockheed Martin’s quantum computer steps into the limelight.”[A] powerful new type of computer
This may be an important historical record of the early days of aeronautics, or it may be a vivid fantasy by a lonely, old man.
Either way, it’s beautiful.
The notebooks… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 2527 Guarda (a mechanism for protecting airships), by Charles A.A. Dellschau, 1912.”
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