The stars are louder
The song of the spheres – or, as BBC puts it, the music of the stars – is getting easier for astronomers to hear: Bill […]
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience 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, …
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SONG: Answering the Call
SONG: “Answering the Call.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Koalas bellow to attract a mate, BBC News, 18 […]
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 […]
Full-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 […]