If you were curious about the crystalline structure of iron mentioned in the last post, here it is — a molecul…
Read moreIt’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreThis is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreStarfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
Read moreLegend
1 Arm
2…
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”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreNASA’s hiring: Job Title:Astronaut Candidate Department:National Aeronautics & Space Administration Agency:Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Job Announcement Number:JS12A0001 SALARY RANGE: $64,724.00 to $141,715.00 / Per […]
Scientific American looks over the mystery surrounding autism – and why, less than 75 years after it was first identified, the syndrome seems to be […]
Discover magazine’s Discoblog brings to light a study linking the feeling of being bored with the feeling of entitlement: “All people have to complete dull […]
That’s how The Telegraph puts it. “Boffins” (a lovely word) helped the band Marconi Union design a song so relaxing, you shouldn’t put it on […]
“Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson answering […]
Click to embiggen This is a bug that, like Eeyore, eats thistles. Some call them “free living.” Others call them vagrants. Technically, I mean. [via]
Wired says we should think about staying indoors for a while, because the probe Russia sent to collect samples from the Martian moon isn’t going […]
That’s the idea behind a study by University of Oxford and the University of Auckland researchers in PhysOrg. The scientists found that our ability to […]
National Geographic reports that an entire genus of African antelopes – represented by the hirola, last species in genus Beatragus – is about to follow […]
Scientific American interviews Brian David Johnson, Intel’s “future caster,” who combines science fiction with software and hardware design to predict what’s happening next: How can […]
Discovery is looking up to a way to get satellites into orbit using balloons instead of rockets: …[T]he now-retired NASA space shuttle was the Hindenburg […]
Science explores why the noise of nails on a chalkboard is so awful: As they will report next week at the Acoustical Society of America […]
Or, BBC says, at least the symptoms of aging, like wrinkles and cataracts. Mayo Clinic researchers may have found a fountain of youth: The study, […]
The Telegraph finds the truth behind a navigational legend – a stone that Vikings used locate the sun on cloudy days: Now experiments have shown […]
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