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: 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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1 Arm
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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 moreScience 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 […]
Women are getting sexier… on the page.
PhysOrg reveals a one-sided increase in sexual imagery. Men are as manly now as in years past, but women are getting more “pornified” than ever: […]
Science in Hollywood
PhysOrg rolls out the red carpet for researchers with an invitation from screenwriters to scientists: Producers and writers for some of television’s most popular medical, […]
Food riots in five…four…three…
We’ve got until August 2013. All of us. Technology Review is teaching us how we can count down to the food riots: … Marco Lagi […]
Science Art: Locusta Indica (from Insecten-Belustigang by A.J. Rösel von Rosenhof)
Click to embiggen. As far as I can tell, the name of the volume from which this illustration came means “The Joy of Insects.” I’m […]
“Watasenia Scintillans Addresses the New Graduates” by Squid Pro Crow.
Watasenia Scintillans Addresses the New Graduates by Squid Pro Crow So. If you’ve noticed me referring obliquely to a “special project” lately, or to “having […]