When life was more easily lost
Science Daily takes us back to an age undreamed of, when shining cities gleamed like jewels beneath the stars. Hither came archaeologists, seeking what killed […]
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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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 moreTomorrow is over THERE.
SciAm looks this way and that at the way our minds work, trying to find out which way the future lies: The Pompuraawan, a remote […]
Science Art: Viperine Boa, James Francis Stephens, 1802.
Boa viperina, as seen in George Shaw’s General zoology, or systematic natural history. You can browse through the book at archive.org… if you’ve got a […]
SONG: Blood Sweat Horses (Hàn Xiě Mǎ)
SONG: “Blood Sweat Horses (Hàn Xiě Mǎ)”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Mausoleum find rekindles ancient Chinas blood […]
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 […]
To 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 […]