Plains tribe’s gut genes are half indigenous, half industrialized.
Cell research into a North American Northern Plains tribe’s gut biota shows that the living things inside them (the bacteria, archaea, and other microbes responsible […]
Science Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreScience 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…
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Science 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 their own aren’t […]
The Amazon jungle swallowed ancient earthworks and roads.
Science Alert reports on the discovery of a long-gone urban sprawl hidden underneath the “untouched” Amazon rain forest: Between around 600 BCE and 850 CE, […]
Science 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 four views of an echocardiogram, and […]
SONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale graveyard found in Indian Ocean off Australia”, ABC News (Australia), 10 […]
Looking for Civil War relics, finding a Spanish mission
Florida archaeologists got more — way more — than they bargained for when they started digging near Chipley, Florida. According to The Cooldown, an excavation […]
Stress literally goes from your brain to your gut to your bones.
Singularity reports on a new study charting the pathway that stress takes from brain to your body — literally going into the center of your […]
Science 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, on archive.org — and, […]
Nobel-winning chemist, tech founder leaves US for China.
Strange to see American political-ish news in Nature of all places (a British scientific journal, after all) but here we are. One of the world’s […]
Science Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers in Badlands National Park, South Dakota. […]
Fart science: How do you rank?
JAMA just published a study that blows open the long-repressed science of flatulence, revealing how much gas the average person passes, and when: Introduction Flatulence […]
Science Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via Nemfrog). It’s described by the editors thusly: Crouch’s […]
The Collider’s long shutdown.
CERN has announced a shutdown dramatic enough that they’re giving it an acronym: LS3, the Long Shutdown 3 for the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider. […]
Science Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which was published in a journal called (deep breath) […]
No June song…
As is clear by now, blown a deadline here for an original song for June. Have a progression and the shape of the thing, mostly, […]