Talking gloves translate sign language to speech.
TechCrunch is captivated by one of the six finalists at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup in Sydney – a Ukranian team of student whizzes who have invented […]
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
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
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience 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 moreThey found threads of dark matter
…spinning between clusters of galaxies. That’s how the Christian Science Monitor describes the remarkable discovery of the scaffolding that holds together the universe: Three-dimensional astronomical […]
Science Art: Spilled Paint, Landsat 7, 2003.
Click to embiggen vastly This image is from the Earth As Art 3 collection, and shows the Great Salt Desert of Iran, the Dasht-e Kavir, […]
Parasites linked to suicides.
Scientific American’s “Science Sushi” blog rolls up some recent research connecting cat-parasite Toxoplasma gondii with human suicides: in Denmark, serum antibody levels for Toxoplasma gondii […]
It’s a boson!
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 […]
Newly discovered fly proves you don’t have to be big to be TERRIFYING.
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 […]
Higgs boson “almost certainly exists”
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 […]
Check the lifeboats or learn to swim. The flood is coming.
Reuters has the cheery news that no matter what we do, ocean levels will be rising: More than 180 countries are negotiating a new global […]
Science Art: Fig. 4, Sketch of skull of Desmatochelys lowi, from Fieldiana: Geology, Vol. 14, 1960.
A sea turtle from the end of the age of dinosaurs. Image from Fieldiana: Geology, Vol. 14, 1960
Spray-on battery turns *anything* into a power source.
Scientific American takes a page from the Acme corporation and introduces the world’s first battery in an aerosol can: The paint-on battery, like all lithium […]
New Mayan text: Party like it’s 2012.
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 […]
Ultimate wireless. In A VORTEX.
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 […]
Ben Ames wins the Flame Challenge. He shows how fire works.
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 […]
Science Art: Le Moustier Neanderthals, by Charles L. Knight.
Click to embiggen We’ve featured prehistoric illustrator Charles L. Knight on these pages before. While he’s best known for his dinosaur portraiture, here he moved […]
SONG: Tired (A Neanderthal Complains)
SONG: “Tired (A Neanderthal Complains).” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Neanderthals may have been first human species to […]