Science Art: False-Color Image Shows Proof of an Impact, by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft
Click to embiggen. Right now, as I write these words, the spacecraft Dawn is circling around the asteroid Vesta, trying to figure out how it […]
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 moreGut attraction.
National Geographic looks at a new social network that matches “friends” based on their intestinal bacteria: MyMicrobes, which opened to the public last week is […]
What’d you say?
Science Daily pipes up with news that Berkeley scientists might have just cured the non-stop ringing of tinnitus: “This work is the most clearheaded documentation […]
Write wrongs with editing therapy.
Scientific American comes close to my ink-stained heart with their interview with psychology professor Timothy D. Wilson, a leading authority on using story editing to […]
Printed dishes.
Fast Company has its eyes on tomorrow’s dinner with a new application for 3D printing – food printed to order: The newest 3-D food printer, […]
Smart pills.
Reuters reports on a potential Alzheimer’s cure that helps grow more brain cells: “We make new neurons every day in our brain,” Andrew Pieper of […]
Science Art: PDB_1h54_EBI by Jawahar Swaminathan and MSD staff at the European Bioinformatics Institute
Click to embiggen. I guess I’m on a Lactobacillus kick. This is not confetti celebrating a Lactobacillus party, and it’s not a photograph of what […]
Antibiotics: not so good for your *brain*, either.
The Economist reveals the strange connection between your intestinal flora and your mood: [R]esearchers, led by Javier Bravo of University College, Cork, split their rodent […]
Antibiotics: not so good for you.
Not in the long run, anyway. That’s how Wired sums up research indicating that our wonder drugs are killing the good bugs off for good: […]
A memorial algorithm
Scientific American reveals the moving mathematics behind the layout of the 9/11 memorial: The planners of the memorial, which will be dedicated this weekend where […]
Did you know…
… that Brian May, member of Queen, the man who wrote “We Will Rock You” and the soundtrack to Flash Gordon, took time out from […]
The spice… and the worm….
PhysOrg has us looking for the mouse-shadow on the second moon with the news that alien life is likelier on “Dune” planets: Instead of aqua […]
Science Art: Nine of Diamonds: Dyals (1702)
A playing card from a set explaining engineering tools to 18th century British players.
The star that shouldn’t be.
ABC Science puzzles over a star that, according to everything we know about stars, simply shouldn’t exist: The star, called SDSS102915+172927, is reported today in […]
Hot spots help health care
PBS Frontline looks at how one urban physician, Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, has figured out how to fix our health care system – by using digital […]