This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreThis is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreThis is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreThis is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreThere’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreI found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreThis is a human embryo, from the first volume of an 1898 textbook for college students. The book was actually first published in the 1840s, […]
New Scientist sees through me like glass. In fact, my skin could be better than glass: In 2007, Allard Mosk and colleagues at Twente University […]
Next time you’re stuck trying to get Boyle’s Law or some cute person’s email into your memory, think of something awful. That’s MSNBC’s solution, based […]
Not just looking at – being around it. Science Daily has the skinny on how BPA is making male mice less attractive to females: The […]
In my day job, I’m not a scientist – I’m a writer. So it pleases me immensely to see this New York Times piece on […]
Genetic engineers have, in the latest New Scientist, devised a device that (deviously) speeds up the process of evolution: For instance, a yeast engineered to […]
From the image’s archive.org page: A schematic diagram of velocity measurements of a rotating disk of hot gas in the core of active galaxy M87. […]
That’s Denmark for you. The International Journal of Epidemiology published an article from Danish researchers who found circumcision isn’t all that great in the sack: […]
SONG: “Humidity.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Star Found Shooting Water “Bullets”, National Geographic, 13 June 2011, as […]
PhysOrg hops on the in-vitro meat bandwagon with a study that concludes lab-grown meat will lower greenhouse gas emissions by 96 percent: The analysis, carried […]
I suppose automation just made the Space Shuttle obsolete (or, well, something like that). MSNBC reports that the latest supply ship to the ISS is […]
CSM takes a somber look at a star essentially giving a final wave as it’s swallowed by a black hole: Using Swift observations and others […]
The innards of a nuclear reactor, from a relatively recent patent application. That is, 1966. By inventor Philo T. Farnsworth. It’s a fusor, which is […]
Wired gets all hot about some of our solar system’s OTHER moons – specifically, the strange magnetism of the magma oceans of Io: The magma […]
Just in time for summer, National Geographic lets us know that someone left the sprinklers on way up there: The discovery suggests that protostars may […]
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