Anti-climate-change-denier bots.
I suppose it’d be shorter to call ’em debate-bots, but Popular Science has the skinny on a new breed of online entity programmed to tirelessly […]
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 moreScience-opolis
Nature has an interactive map of the research capitals of tomorrow. It’s part of their “Science and the City” special. That is all. Go and […]
One-way ticket out
Feeling tied down? Need a permanent change of scenery? The First Post recommends you sign up with NASA and the Pentagon and start over on […]
New light on dark matter.
Thanks to two researchers at the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, Space.com reports, we might soon be able to finally take a closer look at dark […]
Science Art: IMAGE_7222, EarthKAM Spring 2010 Mission.
Click to embiggen This is what a chunk of Northwest Australia looks like from the International Space Station. It was created as part of the […]
Rover Spirit: Down, but still discovering.
Last year, the Mars Rover Spirit got stuck in the dirt and NASA couldn’t get it out. But today, it still manages to deliver. Under […]
Drill, ba… oh, wait. Never mind.
CNN shares the latest US Geological Survey estimate of Alaska’s oil reserve. It’s a breathtaking 90 percent smaller than previously believed: The group estimates about […]
Coffee balloon hands.
Yeah, that headline sounds kind of dada, doesn’t it? But it’s exactly what The Register is describing as the latest Pentagon robotics breakthrough: The manipulator […]
Comic Sans is… *good* for you.
Font fans, run in fear. BBC is reporting on new research that finds the Helveticats and Arialites have it all wrong. If you really want […]
Science Art: Shovel-fish & spoonbill sturgeon by the Brothers Dalziel
Click to embiggen This is a pile of unusual fish from The illustrated natural history, vol. 3, by John George Wood, London, circa 1863. The […]
SONG: Might As Well Be (Considering Inkayacu paracasensis)
SONG: “Might As Well Be (Considering Inkayacu paracasensis)”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “36 million-year-old penguin was five […]
Eyes beneath the ice.
Have I been posting more about Antarctica than usual lately? Doesn’t matter. Check out the astronomical project the Telegraph is looking into deep under the […]
Malarial evolution.
Scientific American notices that the mosquitoes that carry malaria seem to be splitting off into their own species: “We can see that mosquitoes are evolving […]
On the sublime significance of a load of whale crap.
The marine biology-watchers at CBS would like to remind us of one of our planet’s under-appreciated treasures: A new study suggests that whale excrement plays […]
Ghostly fish of the dead zone.
The Telegraph dives four and a half miles into a vast undersea dead zone… and surfaces with a ghostly new species of fish: The new […]