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 moreCNet reports on NASA researchers who may have snapped the first pictures of a new black hole being born:
… Read the rest ““Breathe, supernova! Now PUSH!” (Watching a black hole being born.)”Caught on film by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the “remnant,”
Nature examines the biology of fear – and how researchers have succeeded in creating fear in the fearless:
… Read the rest “This is how you scare the fearless. Neurologically.”Many studies on animals over the years have shown that the amygdala, a small,
Nature reports on the algorithm researchers have devised to find (or recreate) the ancestors of modern languages:
… Read the rest ““Bituqen” is Proto-Polynesian for “star.” A computer figured that out.”Statistician Alexandre Bouchard-Côté of the University of British
Slate examines the mysteries of the mass extinction that killed all the dinosaurs… except the birds:
… Read the rest “Not just an asteroid. What *else* killed the dinosaurs?”“Dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid 65 million years ago” is now an indicator
This came from a series of supplements in California textbooks in the 1960s – the peak of the Space Race.
This is an image of promise. There is a better tomorrow out there in the void. … Read the rest “Science Art: Exploring the Universe, from Looking Into Science supplements, 1965”
Does this sound schmaltzy? Usually things with a full choir and a key change after the bridge sound schmaltzy. I honestly can’t tell – judgement just flew right out the window.… Read the rest ““I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing?)” by Cmdr. Chris Hadfield, Ed Robertson, Barenaked Ladies & The Wexford Gleeks”
No, he’s not doing *that* on the ISS. The commander is, like The Postal Service, making music via a long-distance collaboration… only his is with the earthbound Ed Robertson… Read the rest “Commander Hadfield gets together with Barenaked Lady.”
Harvard researcher Ted Kaptchuk is mastering the medical secrets of sleight-of-mind by figuring out how to use placebos as real medicine:
… Read the rest “Real fake medicine isn’t really fake. It’s real. But how real?”Last year, he and colleagues from several Harvard-affiliated
Time is dibsing front-row seats to the (potentially) big show when a black hole slurps down a gas cloud this fall:
… Read the rest “Black hole, light show.”Back in 2011, astronomers spotted an interstellar gas cloud plunging more
Sounds unnatural or absurd, doesn’t it? But that’s what the internet is making possible, according to Nature (whose publishers should be a little worried). Researchers … Read the rest “Journals without publishers.”
This device is “a regulateur des intermittences”, according to La Nature. I’m not sure what “intermittences” are exactly, but Gustave Trouvet was going… Read the rest “Science Art: Appareil Electromedical de G. Trouvet, from La Nature, 1878”
That’s what Science Daily says scientists have been doing when they hook up a probe precise enough to detect a single idea begin to form in a specific brain cell:
… Read the rest “Watching the thoughts of fishes.”“Our work is
Grist gives hope for affordable renewable energy from the engineers who’ve discovered that cones can make solar power cheaper than coal:
… Read the rest “Not solar panels – solar *cones*. That spin to keep cool.”The company is called V3Solar (formerly
Nature explores why our aging brains succumb to insomnia and forgetfulness at the same time:
… Read the rest “Don’t sleep. Forget. You are growing old.”Ageing is associated with the gradual loss of brain cells, sleep disturbances and declining
The Slashgear blog reveals DARPA’s new plan to convert decent, respectable fighter jets into pew-pew videogame laser gunships:
… Read the rest “Lasers on jets. That’s where we are now.”One of the laser projects is called the High Energy
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