I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
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Read moreThis is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreTechCrunch is captivated by one of the six finalists at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup in Sydney – a Ukranian team of student whizzes who have invented a pair of sign-language gloves… Read the rest “Talking gloves translate sign language to speech.”
…spinning between clusters of galaxies. That’s how the Christian Science Monitor describes the remarkable discovery of the scaffolding that holds together the universe… Read the rest “They found threads of dark matter”
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This image is from the Earth As Art 3 collection, and shows the Great Salt Desert of Iran, the Dasht-e Kavir, as seen from space.
It’s a nearly 30,000 square … Read the rest “Science Art: Spilled Paint, Landsat 7, 2003.”
Scientific American’s “Science Sushi” blog rolls up some recent research connecting cat-parasite Toxoplasma gondii with human suicides:
… Read the rest “Parasites linked to suicides.”in Denmark, serum antibody
If you’re the kind of person who reads these updates here, you already know that CERN has come out and said they’ve found the Higgs boson.
What does that mean?
Simplest version:… Read the rest “It’s a boson!”
Discover takes a close look at a monster smaller than the tip of a ballpoint pen. It’s the world’s smallest fly, a kind of fly called a phorid, and its babies eat the brains of tiny… Read the rest “Newly discovered fly proves you don’t have to be big to be TERRIFYING.”
Boston Globe reports on CERN scientists being almost as definite as particle physicists can be, stating that the subatomic particle that makes matter matter seems to have shown up at the… Read the rest “Higgs boson “almost certainly exists””
Reuters has the cheery news that no matter what we do, ocean levels will be rising:
… Read the rest “Check the lifeboats or learn to swim. The flood is coming.”More than 180 countries are negotiating a new global climate pact which will come into force by 2020 and force
Scientific American takes a page from the Acme corporation and introduces the world’s first battery in an aerosol can:
… Read the rest “Spray-on battery turns *anything* into a power source.”The paint-on battery, like all lithium ion batteries, consists
LiveScience reports on the second Mayan text ever discovered that refers to the famous end of the Mayan calendar. They didn’t think the world was going to end then – just that… Read the rest “New Mayan text: Party like it’s 2012.”
The aptly named ExtremeTech BLOWS THE LID off connection speeds with the HEAD-SPINNING news that American and Israeli researchers have sent 2.5 terabits of data per second through the … Read the rest “Ultimate wireless. In A VORTEX.”
Remember the Flame Challenge? Alan Alda’s quest to find someone who can explain at an elementary-school level what a flame is? Well, an American quantum optics student studying … Read the rest “Ben Ames wins the Flame Challenge. He shows how fire works.”
We’ve featured prehistoric illustrator Charles L. Knight on these pages before.
While he’s best known for his dinosaur portraiture, here he moved a little… Read the rest “Science Art: Le Moustier Neanderthals, by Charles L. Knight.”
SONG: “Tired (A Neanderthal Complains).” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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