Science Art: Reptile Skeletons and Skulls, from Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände, 1835
They look even more reptilian from the *inside*. This image was part of one of those wonderful 19th-century German encyclopedias, but I found it in […]
Science Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreIf you were an MIT math student, you’d fix the lottery too.
Boston Globe blows the lid off an M.I.T. syndicate that appears to have made a cool $8 million fixing the lottery: [Massachusetts Inspector General Gregory […]
Caffeine Junkies of the Lost Metropolis
Wired (suitably enough) gets all hepped up over traces of a prehistoric Starbucks in Cahokia: In a new study, researchers have found the first direct […]
Not quite video games for elderly brains, but almost.
Laboratory Equipment explores “brain fitness programs” and the way computer games can boost seniors’ memory and alertness: The [UCLA] team studied 59 participants with an […]
Antarctic rainforest ready to be reborn.
The Bangkok Post unearths the forgotten past of the lush, humid Antarctic jungle: The study of sediment cores drilled from the ocean floor off Antarctica’s […]
Curiosity is on Mars
The rovers don’t seem to have the same way with words that Neil Armstrong did. From Curiosity’s twitter feed: “I’m safely on the surface of […]
Science Art: Fig. 68, The Two-Toed Sloth, American Types of Animal Life, 1893.
A contented sloth peers out of the pages of St. George Mivart’s American Varieties of Animal Life. I have no idea who the artist is, […]
Butter-flavored Alzheimer’s.
ScienceBlogs pours it on with research that links a popular artificial butter flavor with one of the brain-destroying processes of Alzheimer’s disease: It found evidence […]
Olympics 2016: powered by waterfall.
The Creators Project is already turning attention from London to Rio, where Swiss engineers are planning to erect a giant, power-generating waterfall: Designed by Swiss […]
Prehistoric poisoners push civilization’s start 20,000 years further back.
LiveScience looks at faint traces of deadly poisons that prove Paleolithic culture rose in Africa at the same time it did in Europe: “Our research […]
Smartphones save lives?
Gigaom strolls into a safer future, thanks to car-sensing apps that can help smartphones save lives: Although both cars and smartphones are filled with sensors, […]
“Extinct” tree lobsters coming back. Happy birthday, giant stick insect!
Grist welcomes a new citizen of Earth – a member of a species we thought was dead until they found a few last survivors on […]
Science Art: Giant Excavator, Wills’ Cigarettes.
Click to embiggen About 100 years ago, cigarette companies like Wills put collectible cards in their packs of cigarettes just like bubblegum companies did. Only […]
RIP Andre Hedrick. If you are reading this, you owe him a little something.
The Register pays respects to an unsung hero of computer freedom: CPRM is widely used today as the encryption scheme for SD cards. But by […]
Secret vegetarian recruiting tool: tick bites!
Sci-News reveals one more weapon in the war on carnivores – tick bites that