Stop your engines (for just a second).
CleanTechnica announces some fuel-saving technology that’s making its way from hybrids to standard automobiles: Start-stop is a fuel saving approach mainly associated with hybrid vehicles, […]
SONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreConservative amygdalas are concerned.
The Telegraph reports on new brain studies that find a difference between “liberal” brains and “conservative” brains, equating the old-ways-are-best mindset with larger anxiety-processing areas: […]
Gene weapon vs. bee killers
Varroa mites, the BBC reminds us, are one of the worst enemies honeybees face in these difficult days. But now, there’s a genetic front opening […]
80 percent of America’s antibiotics go to livestock.
Wired examines the economy of our antibiotic culture: Two weeks ago, I broke the news of a new FDA report that estimated for the first […]
Science Art: Illumination of Earth by Sun on the day of winter solstice on northern hemisphere by Przemyslaw “Blueshade” Idzkiewicz
Click to embiggen Image from Wikimedia Commons, showing the winter solstice (for the northern hemisphere) at noon in the Central European time zone. Labeled in […]
SONG: Planet of Diamonds
SONG: “Planet of Diamonds”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Scientists Discover the First Carbon-Rich Planet – Which May […]
Invisible squid
Science News spreads the news of an underwater arms race. Sonar specialist T. Aran Mooney of Woods Hole has discovered that squid are invisible to […]
Tron’s (real) cultural legacy.
No, it’s not the concept of living computer programs zooming around circuits on motorcycles made of light. It’s the way, motherboard.tv reveals, a rather clever […]
Ecstasy for autism.
PsychCentral is turning on to the real, measurable benefits that the clubbiest of club drugs has on schizophrenia, autism and other disorders: Some scientists believe […]
Science Art: Figure 22, from Mammalian Anatomy With Special Reference to the Cat by Alvin Davison, Ph.D., 1927
From Mammalian Anatomy With Special Reference to the Cat by Alvin Davison, Ph.D., 1927. Found on archive.org.
Planet of diamonds
Hyperspace professional Michio Kaku, writing in the BigThink blog, is thinking big about the most precious world in the universe: The planet, called WASP-12b was […]
Sing for space
NASA wants a few good space songs. Really. Just like this site, only, you know, on a much bigger scale (with a slightly narrower focus). […]
Hobbit-eating storks.
I bet they tasted better than babies. Discovery explores the frankly terrifying implications of a new fossil discovery: Named Leptoptilos robustus, this newly discovered stork […]
Frogs might make it after all.
New Scientist offers hope that our amphibian friends might not all die horribly after all: “It’s happening across a number of species,” says Michael Mahony […]