Acne antibiotics help treat schizophrenia.
The Independent reports on one of those weird medical side effect whodathunkits (like Rogaine and Viagra coming from blood pressure medications). Minocycline, a drug usually […]
Science Art: Body-centered cubic (bcc) unit cell of iron, 2009
If you were curious about the crystalline structure of iron mentioned in the last post, here it is — a molecul…
Read moreScience Art: MOON: For the Benefit of Humanity, 2023
It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreScience Art: Bubble chamber with colour enhanced tracks, 2026
This is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreScience Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.
Starfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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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.)
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SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Building the Forth Bridge, by Charles J. de Laoy, 1909
Click to embiggen This is the Forth Bridge, spanning the famous Firth of Forth (on the way to Fife)*. And for Archibald Williams, editor of […]
Silence! You fools! You will LEARN silence!
Technology Review cuts out all the chatter with their lowdown on an honest-to-God silence ray: Today, Kazutaka Kurihara at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial […]
Six-legged giant not extinct, found hiding on remote island.
NPR describes the joy of explorers finding “extinct” tree lobsters – the world’s largest known stick insects, once native only to Australia’s Lord Howe Island […]
Wealth as a predictor of pushy driving.
I’m not sure how I feel about the science behind this, but it’s probably worth a closer look. LA Times reports on a new study […]
Bad bosses affect everything. Including the bottom line.
The Atlantic reveals just how bad it is for you, your family and your company when you’re stuck working for a bad boss: The more […]
Live in Hawaii. Pretend it’s Mars. Eat space food. Get paid.
Cornell is offering the opportunity of a lifetime for an astronaut fan: We are seeking participants for a 120 day Mars exploration analogue mission (Hawaii […]
Science Art: Angiome Annulaire, by Dr. Michel Royon
Click to embiggen An angioma is a benign tumor. This one is on a finger. Image made by Dr. Michel Royon, apparently by using digital […]
New World’s oldest rock carving: “Little Horny Man.”
And yes, it’s what you expect. LiveScience reports on the giant penis that’s redefining world history: The time frame during which humans first reached the […]
Dolphins are people too.
Or so the Belfast Telegraph says, with a report on scientists devising a document outlining dolphin rights: A small group of experts in philosophy, conservation […]
Flying squid. Yeah, that’s a relaxing concept.
Nature eases no one’s mind when the revered journal explains it’s actually more efficient for some squid fly than to swim: Squid of many species […]
Science Art: Amundsen Expedition Map of Antarctica, 1911-1912
Click to embiggen Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen did away with Terra Australis Incognito for good in December 1911. (It was more than a decade later […]
SONG: “Antarctica Awakes!”
SONG: “Antarctica Awakes!” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Scientists close to entering Vostok, Antarctica’s biggest subglacial lake”, Washington […]
Corporate telepathy
New York Times takes a quick look at how retailers virtually read our minds by clocking all the little details: There are, however, some brief […]
“The first human-humanoid handshake in space.”
That’s how ISS Commander Daniel Burbank describes his interaction with Robonaut 2 yesterday. PhysOrg has more on the space station’s new, robot crew member: On […]