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: 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: 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 […]
Worms, organize!
It’s not just ants and naked mole rats that organize into eerily intelligent colonies, Discovery News says. Worms are getting in on the action, too: […]
Prescription pop.
Researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University are using music (and audio engineering) to treat pain and depression – by mapping out emotional terrain in pop songs: […]
Duck penis competition.
This is so going to trigger spam filters, but I don’t care. Science News has reported breaking news… that male ducks grow bigger penises when […]
Hurricane from orbit.
Hurricane Igor, from the International Space Station. [via]
The Michigan extinction event.
It’s happening now, the CS Monitor writes. The entire Lake Michigan ecosystem is collapsing: The quagga [mussel] is found in all of the Great Lakes; […]
Science Art: Robert Roy (Fig. 14) Heredity of Albinism
Click to embiggen Found in VintagePrintable.com’s Life Science gallery.
Humpbacked weirdosaur.
There’s a great piece up at ScienceBlogs demonstrating how paleontology (and, even better, paleontological art) really works. It’s Darren Naish enthusing about a particularly strange-looking […]
Conching dolphins.
New Scientist tells the story of dolphins using tools to hunt: Simon Allen, a behavioural ecologist at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, was out on […]
Medical diamonds.
Discovery News digs deep for a story on things diamonds can do that are more than skin deep: Virtually any kind of protein or chemical […]
Charles Darwin: Terraformer
The BBC exposes a secret experiment by the man who brought us evolution: an island that Darwin turned into an artificial ecosystem: Ascension was an […]
Science Art: Two-Dimensional Low-Turbulence Tunnel
Click to embiggen NASA has a new collection on Flickr Commons. It’s pretty awesome. So is this wind tunnel, also known as the “ice tunnel” […]
Frog skin super-drugs…
…will beat those super-bugs. Science Daily reveals a brand new source for potent antibiotics: The scientists are currently screening skin secretions from more than 6,000 […]
What do you have to say?
That’s the question posed by a fun linguistic think-piece in the New York Times. The article looks over the latest developments in linguistic determination – […]