Science Art: Ursa Major, Sidney Hall
Click to embiggen vastly. This is the Great Bear, which has led our eyes to the North Star for centuries. Sidney Hall was an engraver […]
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 moreOur salts aren’t the same.
Science Daily has new research that shows people sense salt differently. Genes play a role in what healthy food tastes like to supertasters: The research […]
Better prostate exam? Good dog!
LiveScience examines the way dogs save human lives – by sniffing out prostate cancer: Doctors at Paris’s Hospital Tenon trained the [Belgian Malinois] dogs to […]
Take it ALL off.
The bloggers at ufunk.net have appealed to my prurient side with the Eizo Pin-up Calendar: Miss June, 2010. Yes, it’s a calendar that really shows […]
Welcome home, Hayabusa.
BBC News reports on the long-awaited return of the first probe to make it out to an asteroid and back: The Hayabusa pod was picked […]
Hang onto that four-leaf clover.
PhysOrg produces scientific proof that superstitions kinda do bring luck: Damisch teamed with colleagues Barbara Stoberock and Thomas Mussweiler, also from the University of Cologne, […]
Science Art: “When I heard the learn’d astronomer” by Walt Whitman.
WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the […]
Kids of same-sex parents: eerily well-adjusted.
CNN throws some science at the ongoing ruckus over same-sex parenting: A nearly 25-year study concluded that children raised in lesbian households were psychologically well-adjusted […]
Body power. That’s hot.
Forbes traces the development of devices powered by body heat: A resting male can put out between 100 and 120 watts of energy, in theory […]
Crocodile surf
Nature tracks crocodile migrations, showing how they get around by surfing: Zoologists didn’t know how the reptiles travelled such long distances given the sustained level […]
When the coconut crabs came for Earhart.
I’ve been following this bit of research for years, and now Discovery News has an update. TIGHAR has shed a grim, haunting light on Amelia […]
Once it hits the Gulf Stream….
I didn’t really need a computer simulation to show me this because I know how the Gulf Stream works, but here. Wired provides a look […]
Science Art: Catharte de la Californie, Encyclopédie d’histoire naturelle – oiseaux vol. 1, 1860.
Click to embiggen The California Condor, as pictured in the Paris-published The Natural History Encyclopedia – Birds, Vol. 1. By comparison, this was printed at […]
DARPA wants Prophecy.
Wired’s Danger Room sees all, knows all, and reveals all – including the Pentagon’s plan to predict biological attacks by knowing all possible outcomes: They’re […]
Bacteria from the dead….
National Geographic goes beyond the veil for a close look at the life-bringing secrets of resurrection bacteria: Using such clues, D. radiodurans can piece together […]