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 […]
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreBlood 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 […]
Science Art: Hickory, Norway Spruce, Chestnut, and Red Cedar & Pitch Pine, L. Prang chromolithograph.
From the New York Public Library Digital Gallery. Best wishes for a well-garlanded Yuletide.
SONG: Rocket Africa
SONG: “Rocket Africa.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “One man’s mission to put Ugandans in space”, CNN, 4 […]
Closer to Vesta.
NASA’s gotten downright cozy with that cute little planetoid: NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first images of the giant asteroid Vesta from its […]
Man bites dog; bug eats frog.
Science Daily dwells on a bizarre reversal of the usual order of things: …[I]n an unprecedented predator-prey role reversal, a certain group of ground beetle […]
Bb below the lowest C.
Not new research, but I just learned that the lowest note in the Universe: The black hole resides in the Perseus cluster of galaxies located […]
Eating for autism?
CBC News is reporting that the University of Ontario has found a connection between autistic behavior and digestion: UWO researchers investigated the “gut-brain” connection after […]
Science Art: Wels (Catfish) by Heinrich Harder, from Unsere Süßwasserfische by Dr. Emil Walter, 1913.
Click to embiggen A color plate from the BioDiversity Library’s edition of Our Freshwater Fish, first published in Leipzig in 1913. Heinrich Harder, as well […]
Entangled diamonds.
It’s, Ars Technica explains, a quantum thing – but looking bigger: Normally, two particles that can be described using separate mathematical descriptions. But, under certain […]
Did they just find the God Particle? (Answer…)
…Probably. And now, they know where to look the next time they fire up the big collider – in the 124 to 126 GeV (gigaelectron […]
Babies mimic grown-ups… if they trust them.
LiveScience shows just how canny little babies are in selecting grown-ups to emulate: Researchers divided 60 babies between 13 months and 16 months into two […]
Science Art: Mercury Spacecraft, by McDonnell/NASA
Click to embiggen vastly This funny looking can with the tower on top was America’s first ride into space. Wasn’t very big. Didn’t have a […]
From your back yard to outer space. (With you on board!)
I’ve just been reading TWO do-it-yourself space missions. Paul M. Davis, on Sharable.com, reports on a Danish project to construct a two-man space capsule: Kristian […]
Did they just find the God Particle?
On the BBC, a CERN physicist just dramatically announced that they’ve found the Higgs boson… maybe: The two teams of scientists work independently, using two […]