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 […]
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.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
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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 […]
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 […]
DARPA’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 […]