SONG: Beyond the Ends of the Earth
SONG: “Beyond the Ends of the Earth”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “100 Year Starship: Nasa’s plan to […]
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…
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Squid can fly.
I am not making that up. Treehugger.com has the photographic evidence of flying squid: “From our observations it seemed like squid engaged in behaviors to […]
Science Art: Merman (Vir marinus episcopi specie), 1696
Click to embiggen I’ll just quote the Wikimedia Commons text on this one. It tells a better story than I could. A relatively benign merman […]
Hurt so good.
Yes. Well. New Scientist’s never-so-aptly-named “Short Sharp Science” blog revels in the discovery that the female orgasm is neurologically linked to pain: To get his […]
Inject stem cells into damaged brain. Wait.
That’s a rough outline of what The Telegraph says scientists are doing in what could wind up being a dramatic medical breakthrough: The study, Pilot […]
Reading names, forgetting faces.
Forget your eyes. New Scientist (have I seen them somewhere before?) says all that reading is bad for your memory: The scans firstly confirmed which […]
Sleights of Mind
This is more of a “heads up” than highlighting any particular discovery, but Medical News Today has a review of a fascinating collaboration between neuroscientists […]
Mutant mosquitoes fight “breakbone fever.”
The Miami Herald reports on a new front line in a genetic war against insect-borne disease: Researchers at Oxitec Limited, an Oxford-based company, created sterile […]
Science Art: Arsinoitherium, by Heinrich Harder
Click to embiggen slightly This big fellow is Arsinoitherium, a prehistoric swamp monster related to elephants and hyraxes. Those horns were once believed to be […]
Bubbles in the Milky Way
NASA astronomers have found the equivalent of a lost continent in space – a pair of colossal radioactive bubbles rising from the galaxy: NASA’s Fermi […]
Hawking Q&A
Time has a vox-pop interview with professional smartypants Stephen Hawking: Does it feel like a huge responsibility to have people expecting you to have all […]
Babies against bullies.
Researchers are using a new weapon against school bullying, New York Times reveals. They’re putting babies in classrooms to make schoolkids more empathetic: We know […]
Physics from the Bronx.
PhysicsWorld tries to get to the bottom of a curious question: Why did this inner-city high school produce seven Nobel laureates? The school, which opened […]
Prehistoric dolphin had a big head.
Really. Check out what the BBC says about our one-time balloon-headed neighbor to the seas: A new type of dolphin with a short, spoon-shaped nose […]
Science Art: Hydrogen Density Plots, by PoorLeno
Click to embiggen The way we grew up thinking about atoms – like teeny tiny solar systems with electrons orbiting a nucleus like planets around […]