Go out and play.
Researchers are rallying – literally – in defense of goofing off. Too much structure is hurting our children, say scientists in The Chronicle of Higher […]
Science Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreFull-throated koala love bellow.
BBC broadcasts the remarkable, newly discovered courtship holler of the koala: Dr [William] Ellis and his colleagues [from the University of Queensland], who report their […]
Science Art: Japanese Red-Bellied Newt (Cynopus pyrrhogaster), from NASA’s IML-2
This Japanese Red-Bellied Newt was part of the payload aboard the Space Shuttle’s STS-65 mission, which carried a few odd creatures into orbit for the […]
SEA quiz: Who did what?
Ganked shamelessly from the Scientists and Engineers for America newsletter: To celebration Black History Month, SEA staff has chosen five brilliant scientists and engineers for […]
Deadlier than the animal.
…is the plant. This plant, Discovery says. It’s broken the speed record for sucking animals to their deaths: Their traps suck in prey in less […]
Our atomic noses.
Normally, when we think of the way we smell things, we think of the molecules of a smelly substance – like a rose or a […]
Psychology of awkwardness.
RSA Animate presents Steven Pinker’s frank lecture on euphemism, called “Language as a window to human nature”: [via Inland Empire]
Learning magnets.
PhysOrg makes me fight an overwhelming urge to start raving about “thinking caps” and “memory machines” with their look at how transcranial magnetic stimulation can […]
Science Art: Western Equine Encephalitis Virus Taken With Cryo-Electron Microscope
This is the infectious microbe (alive? not alive? who knows?) that causes Western equine encephalitis. It’s a deadly virus. I can remember when they said […]
Sleeping beneath the ice.
Reuters reports on a Russian mission to reach an oxygen-rich lake that’s been untouched for 15 million years: “It’s minus 40 (Celsius) outside,” [Alex] Turkeyev […]
Violin and quanta.
New Scientist listens to the art of subatomic particles: The performance is the brainchild of composer and computer scientist Alexis Kirke from the University of […]
Sleep reminders.
Discovery makes me want to take a nap. Not because this research is boring, but because it suggests you can sleep your way to better […]
Better solar.
Alternative energy got a big boost from TechEye.net, which reports that a new generation of solar panels could double in efficiency: A team made of […]
Science Art: “Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine,” from One Hundred Years’ Progress of the United States, 1871
Click to embiggen Beautiful machine for skilled labor. You can browse the whole illustrated encyclopedia of fin de siecle technology at archive.org. [via Old Book […]
Why thank you, Br’er Fox….
Humans weren’t best friends with dogs first, says the Discoveryon blog. Archaeologists have found evidence that foxes may have been our pets first: Scientists analysing […]