Atomic cars.
Finally. The good folks at Discovery News give us some hope we’ll be able to drive around with uranium fuel: Scientists from the Los Alamos […]
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, …
Read moreNobel-winning goof-offs.
In case you missed it this morning, NPR had a story about graphene, the single-atom-thin form of carbon that won its inventors a Nobel prize… […]
Red Super-penguin
io9.com explores the prehistoric majesty of the man-sized super-penguin: The fossil was discovered in Peru and has been classified as Inkayacu paracasensis, but its less […]
Science Art: Geosaurus, by Samuel Wendell Williston.
Click to embiggen slightly This is Geosaurus, recently outed in the pages of Discovery News as “the T. Rex of the deep”: What’s more, metriorhynchids, […]
Street View: Antarctica
Dude! I *know* that… uh… ice cliff…. Guardian takes a look at Google Street View’s mission to the southernmost continent: Brian McClendon, vice-president of engineering […]
A word from the Vatican Observatory….
“Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul.” – Papal astronomer Guy Consolmagno, SJ, speaking with Guardian before appearing […]
Science Jobs: Collect Monkey Dung!
The New York Times has perspective on what a “really crappy job” looks like: Collecting poop is our way of doing invasive research without being […]
This is a link to a science news article.
No, I mean this is the link. Worth reading it is, too.
Science Art: 5 of Wands – Fusion, by Janelle Schneider (from Science Tarot).
I’m a tarot enthusiast. I take the same approach to the cards as do the folks behind this deck – as a good way to […]
SONG: The Imperial Worm
SONG: “The Imperial Worm”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Warrior Worms Swallow Enemies Whole”, Discovery News, 14 September […]
Song delay.
This hasn’t been a week for lyrics. September’s song will be completely shortly, followed by another penitential cover.
Compassionate kids, caveman kids.
You want a child who’s smart, calm and caring? Science Daily recommends doing it like the Neanderthals: Three new studies led by Notre Dame Psychology […]
Do not fear the super-spud.
New Scientist is considerably cheerier about another transgenic thing coming out of the sub-continent – a new generation of high-protein potatoes: Subra Chakraborty and colleagues […]
Fear the superbug. Fear it.
Wired is feeling… apprehensive… about the latest progress made by the “Indian superbug” gene: This week, I’m at ICAAC (the annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial […]
Science Art: 8655 (cut-away view of a “barrel”-type milk and cream cooler)
Image from PHIL, the Public Health Image Library of the Centers for Disease Control. It’s an old-fashioned fridge, as recommended by the Minnesota Board of […]