DIY dinosaur. (A chicken comes first.)
Then, Wired tells us, comes a dinosaur egg. At least that’s one paleontological plan to flip the genetic switches separating “chicken” from “dinosaur”: Jack Horner […]
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…
Read moreAngry fish.
Yeah, not birds. Discovery News writer Jennifer Viegas unveils the most bitter of best friends is likely to be the humble goldfish: A new study […]
Science Art: n238_w1150 (Plate XCV:Opisthoteuthis VERRILL) from The Cephalopoda, ed. by Carl Chun, c. 1915
Click to embiggen. Octopus up-skirts. For science. The provenance of this picture is a little hard to sum up easily: * I found it on […]
SONG: Turn Me Inside Out
SONG: “Turn Me Inside Out.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Gut instinct: Tantalising evidence that intestinal bacteria can […]
(Needs confirmation) Light-speed barrier broken?
AP is reporting that CERN has made a beam of sub-atomic particles travel faster than the speed of light: University of Maryland physics department chairman […]
Whole Foods’ Mind Control
Fast Company reveals the tricks of the trade. Literally. Supermarket giants are using subliminal suggestion and misdirection just like master magicians: For example, sales records […]
Outside the box isn’t easy.
In fact, PhysOrg says, new solutions to old problems tend to turn people off. The more creative the solution, the harder it is to sell: […]
A Higgs boson walks into a cathedral…
No, really. A religion and science joke. A Higgs boson walks into St. Patrick’s Cathedral on a fine Sunday morning. The monsignor looks up and […]
Sweet sounds (and the neurology thereof).
Science comes a step closer to figuring out the neurology of key – or how it is that we instinctively know what sounds good: Bernardo […]
Teenage brains.
A friend of mine who taught middle school called it “hormone poisoning.” But National Geographic takes a slightly more serious look at why adolescents do […]
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 […]
Gut 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, […]