Quantum computers can work.
Laboratory Equipment points the way for the next big breakthrough in thinking machines: Many quantum algorithms require that particles’ spins be “entangled,” meaning that they’re […]
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreReading really is fundamental. Neurologically. (Or: A Good Book Is Universal.)
Nature reveals that no matter what language you’re reading, your brain lights up the same way when you do it: Previous studies have suggested that […]
Tanzi is a rock star.
Boston Globe profiles the geneticist and Alzheimer’s expert who played organ on Aerosmith’s last album: It was 2009 when Dr. Rudy Tanzi was asked to […]
Rapping inside an MRI. (On freestyle neurology.)
Nature reveals something fascinating about what happens when a creative brain turns on the creativity: Freestyle rapping — in which a performer improvises a song […]
Science Art: Diurnal Motion of the Celestial Sphere, from General Astrophysics by Jerzy Stodolkiewicz, 1973
The dome of the heavens, 1970s-style. Found in a very special pdf in archive.org – a book on how we can look out at the […]
No song today
Which means one shall be forthcoming soon. And a penitential cover. So it goes.
Carnivorous sponges found. (As if you didn’t have enough to worry about.)
Nature goes deep, deep into the subconscious pit of our fears… or at least the Pacific Ocean… to present the underwater answer to the Venus […]
Why is dissonance noisy?
Nature explores the strange mathematics of yuck – the neurological reason why we find dissonant music hard to listen to: Consonant chords are, roughly speaking, […]
‘The Bloop’ identified.
I’m not sure when this happened, but NOAA thinks they’ve finally identified the mysterious underwater sound known as ‘The Bloop’: The broad spectrum sounds recorded […]
Confined to a wheelchair, but still rides a bike…
Guardian has some unusual insight into the human brain, thanks to a man whose Parkinson’s has left him confined to a wheelchair, but who is […]
Science Art: World’s Weirdest: Seagulls Help Sunfish, National Geographic.
Nothing about sunfish is as striking as watching them move. [via]
NASA beefs up security after laptop theft.
ITProPortal.com reports on a heightened state of alert in the halls of the government offices in charge of the very biggest missiles there are… because […]
What does the zombie-making fungus fear? Its own parasite.
Science Tech Daily says in the parasite world, it’s turtles all the way down. No matter how much of a *parasite* you are… like the […]