This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreReally, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreThe Guardian reports on a coalition of universities who have found hope for the low-lying, storm-prone (and tourism-dependent) Sunshine State, if climate resilience plans are put in … Read the rest “Florida can weather climate change – if planning starts now.”
Live Science reports on a first-of-its-kind archaeological discovery in the graveyard of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, where a woman buried a century ago was found to have a perfectly… Read the rest “Porcelain gallbladder exhumed from asylum cemetery.”
BBC reports on Raku, a Sumatran orangutan, who has become the first non-human animal observed creating medicine – intentionally mashing up plants to create a paste to smear on an … Read the rest “Orangutan makes his own medicine.”
They do look a little like meerkats, these big African satellite dishes. This is a photo from the Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKAO) / South African Radio Astronomy Observatory… Read the rest “Science Art: MeerKAT telescopes, 2018”
Maybe Houston Chronicle just likes ragging on Elon Musk, maybe it’s a local paper commenting on a locally important industry – either way, they’ve got a story on how … Read the rest “SpaceX leads the way… in workplace injuries.”
SONG: “I Am Your Library”. (available as .ogg here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on Science Daily, 25 Mar 2024, “New archive of ancient human brains challenges misconceptions… Read the rest “SONG: I Am Your Library”
NASA reports that the interstellar probe, which stopped sending back updates last November, is once again letting HQ know how its onboard systems are doing. Next step is getting it to send… Read the rest “Voyager 1 is working again.”
I think this is a brain, but it might just be a maze. This is a small icon that appears on the lower left corner of the back cover of The Mind, from the LIFE Science Library published by Time-Life… Read the rest “Science Art: Back Cover Detail, THE MIND, 1965.”
Science Daily has news of a child — child! — of 11 who discovered the fossilized bones, during a seaside walk in England, of a very big sea creature. It probably measured about… Read the rest “Damned big ichthyosaur.”
Bolts magazine follows up on studies showing a link between health insurance and crime rates (that is, the less people are insured, the higher crime rates tend to go) by focusing specifically… Read the rest “Lower Medicaid, higher crime.”
Scientific American has new research that finds a connection between one subspecies of a bacterium commonly found in our mouths, Fusobacterium nucleatum, and the growth colon cancer,… Read the rest “Mouth bacteria linked to colon cancer”
This had to have been meant slightly tongue-in-cheek at the time… hadn’t it? Bespectacled man, meet Vitruvian lady.
The cartoon couple are from an ad in the October 1964 issue… Read the rest “Science Art: Human Factors: Scanning Male and Standing Female, 1964.”
NPR has a piece on a USF anthro prof’s idea to make her sort of depressing research more palatable in a way of which this guild heartily approves – by turning data on public reactions… Read the rest “Algae bloom data, set to music.”
NPR greets springtime with flowers that show their brightest color (a fluorescent green) after the sun goes down, thanks to genetic modification that makes these petunias glow in the dark… Read the rest “Glowing petunias.”
This is a scientific illustration done as a paper collage; that is, Philip Gosse took a sheet of paper, painted it as black as space, then glued white and colored tissue over it to create the… Read the rest “Science Art: Amoeba. Actinophrys. by Philip Henry Gosse.”
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