Dry water.
No, not ice, but, as the Telegraph explains it, a form of water that just isn’t wet: Each particle of dry water contains a water […]
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…
Read moreUnselfish? Don’t expect us to *like* it.
Science Daily explores an ugly side of human nature. Research shows that groups don’t like good guys among them: Four separate studies led by a […]
Pee-pee power.
I went there. No, really, I went there. The BBC reports on the way chemists will use urine as fuel: Dr Tao said: “Growing up […]
SONG: Rising Like the Sun
SONG: “Rising Like the Sun”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Antidepressants in water cause shrimps to ‘swim towards […]
Science Art: Triceratops-Eotriceratops size 02, by Conty.
Click to embiggen Image from Wikimedia Commons, where it soon might be deleted for making the Eotriceratops too large. They always seem to put the […]
Zombie ants from 48 million BC!!
Science Daily assures us these shocking, primordial monsters are very real: “This leaf shows clear signs of one well documented form of zombie-parasite, a fungus […]
Take a hike, kid.
G’wan. Get out of here. No, you don’t need me to hold your hand. The Guardian says you should go outside and play! [A] growing […]
Look happy, feel happy.
It’s not just about paralyzing your face to make you look younger. Not too long ago, Indiana University revealed that Botox really does make people […]
Before there was DNA….
That’s what’s still going inside this food-poisoning bacteria, according to Science Daily. Its genetic material is so ancient, it’s older than genes as we know […]
Destination Venus.
Or, as Discovery News puts it, RETURN TO HELL: We have a lot of unanswered questions about Venus that warrant a return surface visit. Venus […]
Science Art: Deep Sea Angler, by Justin Marshall, QBI.
Click to embiggen This is a photograph taken off Osprey Reef by researchers with the Sensory Neurology Group of the Queensland Brain Institute. No, not […]
Fall of antibiotics
Break out the garlic and sulfur compounds. The Guardian’s predicting the end of antibiotics in as soon as 10 years: Hyperbole? Unfortunately not. The highly […]
Eater of planets.
Not Galactus, but Jupiter, says New Scientist. The king of planets got to be so big because it gorged itself on super-Earths sometime in its […]
Desert feeds jungle.
Nature reveals a hidden connection between Sahara dust and the Amazon rainforest: Significant amounts of plant nutrients have been found in atmospheric mineral dust blowing […]
Catch the Perseids.
Big show. Shooting stars. Tomorrow night, night after that. Space.com has some details. Go. Watch the skies.