Sacred greenhouses.
DiscoveryNews digs up evidence of American slaves holding religious rituals and conducting scientific research in the masters’ greenhouses: As they dug below a north-facing back […]
Science 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 moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreTo Mercury.
The BBC warms up to NASA’s latest mission, which is about to get a close look at the planet Mercury: Messenger has had to use […]
Science Art: Saturn I Booster Test
Click to embiggen Little version of a big rocket. Photo from NasaImages.org: A Saturn I booster model is set up for testing in NASA Lewis […]
Mama’s got a big brain.
Scientific American refutes the mommy-brain myth with new research that shows new moms’ brains actually get bigger: Structural changes in animal brains, says National Institutes […]
Blood Falls.
National Geographic Expeditions takes an ominous look at aliens in Antarctica: A blood-red waterfall pouring out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys […]
Inside Fukushima
Nature has a great look at what’s going on inside the Japanese nuclear reactor damaged by the tsunami: So, without emergency cooling, the temperature at […]
Healthy germs.
Nature takes a second look at the best kind of respiratory infections – the bacteria that fight off the flu: A research team led by […]
Bill Gates takes on the autism vaccine army.
I’ve never inspired 50,000 people to protest anything. I’ve never really missed it… until Wired mentioned just how many people Bill Gates pissed off by […]
Science Art: The Kincaid Site in Massac County, Illinois, by Herbert Roe, 2004
At one point in history, one of the world’s largest cities was in America – and it wasn’t New York or Los Angeles. It was […]
This week’s Worst Headline award.
…goes to PopSci for yesterday’s tragically incorrect Biggest Full Moon in 19 Years Almost Certainly Won’t Cause a Huge Natural Disaster: Past supermoons have coincided […]
Passively untrue?
Science Daily actively engages readers with research that shows that a lack of fact-checking in articles undermines readers’ concept of truth: The study found that […]
Fit Britain.
Is is just me or is the BBC sounding insufferably superior when it reports that the English are healthier than Americans: But despite looking, the […]
China’s nuclear future.
The Guardian is looking clean, abundant and safe as it talks about China’s mission to do nuclear power better – with thorium: Imagine how the […]
Robot lawyers.
It’s not news when more factory workers get laid off because their jobs have been automated. But New York Times seems to agree that when […]
Kiss controller
Why use your hands to manipulate the electronics, asks Georgia Tech digital artist Hye Yeon Nam, when you could use a little affection instead?: Project […]