Fight to be tiniest.
WaPo covers the war between a newly discovered frog and an itsy bitsy fish over which one is the smallest vertebrate: An article Wednesday 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 moreWorkout in a pill. No, really.
MIT Tech Review is finally announcing part of that unimaginable future we’ve all been waiting for – fat-burning exercise in capsule form: Researchers have discovered […]
A yellow viper with horns over its eyes.
Not a fever dream. Not a Discovery photoshop. No, it’s a newly discovered snake named Matilda: Matilda, technically known as Atheris matildae, was named after […]
Really dark matter.
The fun thing, New Scientist seems to be saying, about dark matter right now is that it’s really dark. Like, really, really not a glimmer […]
Science Art: Braunfische oder Balenen (Plate 98), Johann Saur (after Lakas Schan), Fischbuch, das ist, aussführliche Beschreibung und lebendige…, 1598
A medieval hunt for the “brownfish, or baleen.” Centuries before we got our light and energy by burning petroleum, we got it from whales. This […]
The first church of file-sharing: Kopimism.
The Swedes *really* like their torrents. They revere them. It’s not just entertainment any more – file-sharing is a religion. Literally. BBC News: The Church […]
Wearing the senior citizen suit.
That’s what designers will be doing to make stores and furniture and *everything else* comfortable for aging Baby Boomer consumers. Discover looks at the way […]
More wolves, more trees.
File this Washington Post story under “unintended consequences,” maybe. Researchers in Yellowstone Park are noting that as wolf populations are rebounding, the number of trees […]
Electricity vs. depression.
Medical Xpress seems quite excited over the prospect of using “deep brain stimulation” to cure depression: The study was led by Helen S. Mayberg, MD, […]
A closer look at fish feet.
Oh, tetrapod. How Science Daily says you’ve changed. The first walkers, they’re saying, may have had more to do with floods than droughts: University of […]
Science Art: Chlamyphore tronque, Chlamyphorus truncatus, Harlan, by René Primevère Lesson
Click to embiggen The pink fairy armadillo wishes you a happy New Year. So, I am sure, would R.P. Lesson. [via Scientific Illustration]
Creatures of the Dragon Vent.
Guardian is taking a closer look at some of the strangest living things from one of the most peculiar places on Earth: In the first […]
Airplane profits – when “average” means “most dangerous.”
PhysOrg has something new for fearful flyers to obsess over. The further an airline is from its break-even point – either losing money or making […]
Last Neanderthals.
Next thing you know, they’re going to be showing up in our back yards. But Past Horizons says the last Neanderthals were about 8,000 years […]
Blood rice.
Not rice the cost of which is blood (I mean, not as in “blood diamonds”) but rice that PopSci says actually grows human blood: HSA […]