Immigrant kids have fewer allergies.
Healthline doesn’t seem to be jumping to any conclusions here… just remarking that if you’re American-born, you’re more likely to have allergies than if you’re […]
Science Art: Body-centered cubic (bcc) unit cell of iron, 2009
If you were curious about the crystalline structure of iron mentioned in the last post, here it is — a molecul…
Read moreScience Art: MOON: For the Benefit of Humanity, 2023
It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreScience Art: Bubble chamber with colour enhanced tracks, 2026
This is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreScience Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.
Starfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Resuscitation by mouth-to-mouth respiration, WHO/Red Cross photo
Click to embiggen slightly The robot is in trouble! We’ll have to help the robot breathe! This educational illustration comes from the National Institutes of […]
Something strange was found in Antarctica. Something alien. And very, very small.
New Scientist has more on the possible discovery of two cosmic neutrinos near the South Pole: In June last year the IceCube neutrino telescope at […]
Smartphone satellites. NASA’s sending phones into orbit.
LA Times reports on the latest low-budget, off-the-shelf NASA experiment, sending three smartphones into orbit: The three Google-HTC Nexus One smartphones are circling Earth at […]
No song today!
Alas, no song will be posted today. It will be forthcoming, as will a penitential cover.
Have sanctions helped Cubans live longer?
Nature wades into international politics (and some pretty harsh facts) with a theory for the “unintended consequences” file. Researchers are floating the idea that an […]
Science Art: The periodical cicada (”Magicicada septendecim”), Plate 7, from Insects, their way and means of living, by R. E. Snodgrass.
Click to embiggen It’s the year of magic. Or, well, the Magicicada septendecim – the 17-year magic cicada. Have you heard? They come back every […]
Buddy planets. We just found them, but they probably know each other.
New Scientist reports on the Kepler space telescope’s latest discovery: a pair of neighboring planets that could both support life – within easy reach of […]
One bank account makes saving easier.
PhysOrg flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that holds “out of sight, out of mind” as a savings strategy. Instead, we save better […]
Would you wear GMO silk?
Nature reveals how a mosquito-killing gene technique is being used to create better silk more efficiently: But male silkworms (Bombyx mori) are much more useful […]
The best food in space is shrimp cocktail.
The Atlantic reveals a culinary secret of near-Earth orbit. Astronauts love shrimp cocktail – and here’s why: Without gravity to pull blood toward the feet, […]
Southerners aren’t fatter. Just more honest.
AL.com showcases some science that sets straight some old stereotypes. Southerners don’t have bigger guts than Americans from the North or the West. They just […]
Science Art: Neuroscience Dress Trippy Retina Print, by Shenova
This eye-catching dress is based on retinal neurons as observed by Ferrucio Tartuferi in 1887. He put eyes under the microscope and looked at what […]
Military navigator half as big as the engraving on the back of a penny.
And, Wired says, about as thick, too. But this chip can still do everything a GPS can do… without the satellites: At the University of […]
Slime couture.
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 […]