Leaping cockroaches!
Because sometimes scuttling just isn’t enough. Wired gets up close and personal with the cockroach that, like its cricket cousins, jumps where it needs to […]
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 moreDARPA’s open factory.
Ars Technica looks at the defense industry of tomorrow, when secure factories are replaced by crowds of tinkerers: [T]he agency’s Adaptive Vehicle Make project may […]
Closer to a cloned mammoth.
Physorg hearkens to the growing thunder of massive, woolly feet as Japanese and Russian researchers declare they’re one step closer to bringing mammoths back: Teams […]
Crab grows garden on its claws
Nature reveals why the yeti crab will never go hungry. It grows methane-based bacterial gardens on its own claws: The yeti crab — so-called because […]
Science Art: Testing Machine, from The New Students’ Reference Work, 1914.
Click to embiggen This wasn’t a machine for giving new students tests. It was a machine for testing how strong materials were. My understanding is […]
Laser zeppelins. You know, for spies.
No, really. PopSci has more info on the Air Force’s new flying intelligence hub – an airship that uses lasers as fiber-optic cables: …DARPA will […]
Not your rocket!
New Scientist reports on one space-happy eBay seller who’s got some explaining to do: In a recent report, NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) described […]
Behind the wall of sleep.
New Scientist tries to rouse the secrets of anesthesia – and what being put under can teach us about consciousness itself: A team led by […]
Pet wolves of prehistoric China.
Past Horizons may have revealed the secret origins of man’s best friend – among the domesticated wolves of Southeast Asia: Data on genetics, morphology and […]
Teeth started outside.
Then, Australia’s ABC Science tells us, they gradually moved inside our mouths: The study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, supports what is known […]
Science Art: Manatees Swimming by Henry W. Elliott
Click to embiggen From the NOAA Photo Library, Historic Fisheries Collection, in the somewhat questionably titled ” Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals” section. Are […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Jimmy Page makes some noise.
When he’s not playing electric guitar with a bow, the Led Zeppelin virtuoso makes stranger noises:
Thanksgiving Theremin: Leon Theremin plays his instrument.
The one that bears his name: That’s where electronic music began.
SONG: Shining Stone (Calcite Double Refraction)
SONG: “Shining Stone (Calcite Double Refraction).” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Magical Viking stone may be real”, The […]
The doorway of forgetting.
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have found a strange link between forgetting things and walking through doorways: New research from University of Notre […]