NASA astronaut finally ready to spend more than a year in space.
Ars Technica reports on a long-awaited milestone. After many not-quite-that-long missions, a NASA astronaut is on the way to finally spend more than a full […]
Science Art: A Fossil Flower (Cycadeoidea ingens), 1924.
This is a photograph of a model from the Field Museum of Natural History, representing a cycad flower reconstru…
Read moreScience Art: ISS Aug 2005, by NASA.
The Space Shuttle Discovery shot this photo of the International Space Station flying high over the Caspian Sea…
Read moreScience Art: Britannia Co.'s Patent Screwing Machine, 1890.
“Screws at one single cut,” the ad boasts. This is an ad from the front of The Engineer’s Sketch-Book of Mechan…
Read moreScience Art: Evibacus princeps, 2019
It’s a wickle baby slipper lobster!
That color came from it being prepared on a slide so it could be examine…
Read moreScience Art: Mimodactylus in life, 2019.
This is a painting of Mimodactylus libanensis soaring over what Nature (where it was first published) called “A…
Read moreScience Art: Test Apparatus, 1960
A test apparatus, as used for the article “Modification of Force Feed Lubricators” in the 1960-05 edition of Lu…
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Science Art: Test Apparatus, 1960
A test apparatus, as used for the article “Modification of Force Feed Lubricators” in the 1960-05 edition of Lubrication Engineering. The idea was to study […]
We can get back to the night sky. But it will take work.
Ars Technica reports on the ongoing blotting out of the stars at night, with artificial light pollution doubling in the last 10 years alone. There […]
Vikings brought animals to England, radioactive analysis shows.
Science News looks at a Viking burial site in England where animals were buried alongside humans, and finds that radioactive traces show these critters traveled […]
Science Art: Deceleration of Mars Science Laboratory in Martian Atmosphere, 2011
An image from NASA/JPL-Caltech depicting a capsule starting to slow down in the Martian atmosphere. All we see is the outer structure, which seems mostly […]
Researchers: one police stop makes a person less likely to vote.
Bolts magazine has an article by one of the researchers published in American Political Science Review who found that police interactions directly correlate with lower […]
The gap between rich and poor is growing faster in the U.S. than Europe.
Researchers from Imperial College London and the Paris School of Economics have looked across the pond at 50 years of data and found that America, […]
Kids are wearing toxic make-up
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health has released an alarming study that’s found levels of carcinogens and other toxic materials, including lead […]
Science Art: DNA Double Helix, by the National Human Genome Research Institute
An image of the machine that builds our bodies, bit by bit. From the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, located at […]
SONG: Whispering Secrets to Me
SONG: “Whispering Secrets to Me” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Defector 15 Nov 2022, “Turtles Have Been Vocalizing All This Time. Why Did We Not […]
Study: ChatGPT could earn an MBA from Wharton
A professor at the prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania – probably America’s most highly regarded business school – has found […]
Get ready for some small modular nuclear plants.
AP News reports on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approving the first design for a new kind of nuclear power plant that’s smaller and less […]
Science Art: Just Missed Him, by G.E. Lodge, 1898.
I wasn’t sure if this really counted as a scientific illustration, despite finding it in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, since most of the other plates […]
New invention won’t let you LOL without, you know, laughing out loud.
Vice reports on the LOL Verifier, a device that won’t let you type out “LOL” in a message unless you’ve actually just laughed out loud: […]
Despite their public stance, Exxon’s internal science team had a clear view on climate change.
Ars Technica looks at the way Exxon executives decided to bury their own company’s very accurate findings on petroleum and climate: Exxon’s scientific climate work […]