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 let me tell you, Nature is none too pleased:
… Read the rest “Italy imprisons seismologists for failing at earthquake warning.”The meeting was unusually quick, and was followed by a press conference at which the Civil Protection Department and local authorities reassured
And today is the day there should be a song.
So we owe you a song. And a penitential cover. Hmm.
Hmm!
You remember Lake Vostok, yes? The Antarctic lake where scientists pulled up some water from 20 million years ago, just to see what things might have survived? Well, New Scientist says, … Read the rest “Lake Vostok is still and lifeless. Perhaps.”
BBC reports on the linguists who have started puzzling out how to read and write in proto-Elamite:
… Read the rest “The oldest un-translated language is getting clearer.”“I think we are finally on the point of making a breakthrough,” says Jacob
A prehistoric non-bird, found via Scientific Illustration.
(Not to be mistaken for the rather unpleasant crusts on the mouths of fever sufferers.)
If there’s something familiar… Read the rest “Science Art: Sordes by John Sibbick”
The nearest solar system to ours, National Geographic confirms, actually has a planet in it:
… Read the rest “We’ve got a neighbor (in Alpha Centauri).”The planet orbits very close to Alpha Centauri B—the smaller of two paired stars—and likely
Laboratory Equipment has some good news about a guy who’s had a pretty hard time… Richard Lee Norris needed a new face, and he got one from the University of Maryland that seems… Read the rest “Face transplantee can see, smell, taste… and SMILE again.”
Oh, yes we did. We’ve already used zeppelins to hunt for aliens (or at least meteorite strikes). And now, MSNBC tells us, we’ve got an odder airship for an odder task:
… Read the rest “We built a blimp to hunt Bigfoot….”Using a
BBC has one for the planet hunters – or, indeed, for Planethunters.org, which has just discovered a truly bizarre solar system using a pretty offbeat method:
… Read the rest “Amateur astronomers find planet with four suns.”The planet, located
Watch the skies next year, warns Scientific American, or you’ll miss something you’ll never see again:
… Read the rest “Once-in-a-lifetime comet comes around.”As it flares out of the distant Oort Cloud, the newly discovered comet
I looked for molecules in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character (1905-1934), and this is what… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 2 – Slit Mechanism from “The Scattering of Hydrogen Positive Rays, and the Existence of a Powerful Field of Force in the Hydrogen Molecule” by G. Thompson in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London”
AsiaOne has more on the new planet made of hot, compressed carbon:
… Read the rest “Don’t tell DeBeers: Diamond twice the size of Earth found.”The rocky planet, called ‘55 Cancri e’, orbits a sun-like star 40 light years away in the constellation of Cancer and is moving
Extreme Tech gets right to the point of a new technology – a mechanical pencil that can draw functional electronic circuits:
… Read the rest “Draw your own circuits with nanotube pencils.”With MIT’s carbon nanotube pencil, the lead is formed
Fraud, reports Laboratory Equipment, is a growing problem in published research papers:
… Read the rest “Scientists: You can’t trust scientists.”A review of retractions in medical and biological peer-reviewed journals finds the percentage
French beekeepers, Russia Today tells us, were mystified when their hives started producing rainbow-colored honey – but were even more concerned when they found out the not-so-sweet… Read the rest “M&M waste gives bees honey of different colors.”
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