If you were curious about the crystalline structure of iron mentioned in the last post, here it is — a molecul…
Read moreIt’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreThis is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreStarfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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1 Arm
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This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreWe’ve talked before about Alfred Brehm. These are his aardvarks. Earth-pigs. After “trek,” one of the best-known Afrikaans words to make it into English. Literally, […]
Nikon (through Wired) presents some of the most amazing windows onto the microscopic world ever seen: Super-close-ups of garlic, snail fossils, stinging nettle, bat embryos, […]
PhysOrg has the details on the latest royal presence in Cairo: Czech archaeologists have unearthed the 4,500-year-old tomb of a Pharaonic princess south of Cairo, […]
Nature reveals a setback in the search for life on Mars. We’re learning more about the atmosphere there, and there doesn’t seem to be enough […]
SONG: “Cloudbusting” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. I was late with the last song. This […]
We had big plans then, two years after we’d landed on the Moon. We had to be prepared. found on archive.org (pdf).
Mount Washington Valley Astronomy marks a dozen years of humans living in space: On the 12th anniversary of crews continuously living and working aboard the […]
Yep. It’s the beholder. Discover shows how a D&D-playing kid helped solve a longstanding problem with how humans react to eyes: In 1998, [University of […]
Digital Journal points out that we might already be in contact with aliens – we’re just not looking for the right kind of messages: The […]
SONG: “Is There A Light?” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “New Planet Is Closest Yet: Earth-Size Lava World […]
Click to embiggen. Hi, neighbors. Map found on Wikimedia Commons. It’s part of a larger series showing where we are relative to everything. Everything.
Nature has a great pictorial guide called How to eat a Triceratops: Denver Fowler at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, and his […]
Nature listens to the strange tale of the beluga that sang like a human: “Who told me to get out?” asked a diver, surfacing from […]
And let me tell you, Nature is none too pleased: The meeting was unusually quick, and was followed by a press conference at which the […]
And today is the day there should be a song. So we owe you a song. And a penitential cover. Hmm. Hmm!
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