Dinosaur incubators.
Cold-blooded? Maybe. Warm-hearted? Definitely. Discover has the latest on how dinosaur moms used hot springs to keep the babies warm: In the Cretaceous period over […]
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 moreGay men remember faces.
e! Science finds something besides choosing mates that gay men’s brains do differently – recognize faces: “Our results suggest that both gay men and heterosexual […]
Chimp War.
Science Daily spoils the myth of the peaceful forest apes that live idyllic lives with no concept of ownership. Apparently, the brutes fight long wars […]
Oysters in the spill.
The Tallahassee Democrat demonstrates how the Deepwater Horizon disaster is affecting what we can still learn about sea life: ST. TERESA — Thunder clattered and […]
Science Art: “Lemurs,” from The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, 1844.
Lemurs. The monkey-like creatures found sporting with the chameleons on Madagascar, what? Look at all of them. There are some marmosets and manikins in there […]
MS drugs from Chinese herbs.
The Wall Street Journal dishes the dirt on the humble origins of a new pill for treating multiple sclerosis: Fingolimod comes from an idea hatched […]
Oil research stalled.
Nature gets a little rough with the sloppy White House response to the ongoing Gulf of Mexico mess: On 15 June, BP announced that it […]
SONG: Crocodile Surf
SONG: “Crocodile Surf”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Crocodiles go with the flow”, Nature, 7 June 2010, as used in […]
Dirtier. Happier. Smarter.
Science Daily makes me eager to get out in the woods and get dirty. Mostly, just to dig around in the fallen leaves, but also […]
Put your face in space.
Seriously. NASA wants to take you into orbit. Or at least a likeness of you. It’s their way of celebrating the final two shuttle missions. […]
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 […]
Our 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 […]