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 […]
SONG: 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 moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience 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 moreLook 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.
Radioactive boars rising.
Oh. OK. Discovery is reporting that the population of radioactive boars is increasing in Europe: Radioactive wild boars are on the rise in Germany, where […]
Science Art: Ventricose Cuttlefish, probably by Charles Knight
Click to embiggen A close-up from another page of Charles Knight’s Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature. This may be mistitled – other creatures on the […]
Zeppelin reborn
The Telegraph heralds the future fleet of mighty airships: Hybrid Air Vehicles has built a scale prototype of what will soon be the largest flying […]
Bringing down the sun.
Science Daily has the skinny on cheaper solar power: Stanford engineers have figured out how to simultaneously use the light and heat of the sun […]
Gorilla glass!
The Christian Science Monitor loves primates. On the heels of the flying squirrel discovery, they’re analyzing the economic ramifications of “gorilla glass”: Two to three […]
Need to bother your monkey? Try flying squirrels!
It’s really hard to beat the Christian Science Monitor’s headline on this story…. Monkeys hate flying squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts: “Human evolution occurred alongside primate […]