Not just an asteroid. What *else* killed the dinosaurs?
Slate examines the mysteries of the mass extinction that killed all the dinosaurs… except the birds: “Dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid 65 million years […]
Science Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience Art: Exploring the Universe, from Looking Into Science supplements, 1965
This came from a series of supplements in California textbooks in the 1960s – the peak of the Space Race. This is an image of […]
“I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing?)” by Cmdr. Chris Hadfield, Ed Robertson, Barenaked Ladies & The Wexford Gleeks
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 […]
Commander Hadfield gets together with Barenaked Lady.
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 […]
Real fake medicine isn’t really fake. It’s real. But how real?
Harvard researcher Ted Kaptchuk is mastering the medical secrets of sleight-of-mind by figuring out how to use placebos as real medicine: Last year, he and […]
Black hole, light show.
Time is dibsing front-row seats to the (potentially) big show when a black hole slurps down a gas cloud this fall: Back in 2011, astronomers […]
Journals without publishers.
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 […]
Science Art: Appareil Electromedical de G. Trouvet, from La Nature, 1878
This device is “a regulateur des intermittences”, according to La Nature. I’m not sure what “intermittences” are exactly, but Gustave Trouvet was going to fix […]
Watching the thoughts of fishes.
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 […]
Not solar panels – solar *cones*. That spin to keep cool.
Grist gives hope for affordable renewable energy from the engineers who’ve discovered that cones can make solar power cheaper than coal: The company is called […]
Don’t sleep. Forget. You are growing old.
Nature explores why our aging brains succumb to insomnia and forgetfulness at the same time: Ageing is associated with the gradual loss of brain cells, […]
Lasers on jets. That’s where we are now.
The Slashgear blog reveals DARPA’s new plan to convert decent, respectable fighter jets into pew-pew videogame laser gunships: One of the laser projects is called […]
Now is the parking lot of our discontent made glorious excavation site by our trowels….
LiveScience wonders what we should do with the bones of this lost, wretched King Richard III: The University of Leicester, which is overseeing the excavation […]
Science Art: Finite Element Mesh for a Klein Surface, by Cristian Barbarosie, 2009.
Click to embiggen An inside that is also an outside, as depicted in Python. From
Want a cleaner Mississippi? Put some mussel into it!
New Scientist reveals how scientists are looking into the muddy, murky water of the Mississippi River… by getting mussels with electronic backpacks to do the […]