Computers get the joke.
PopSci releases the terrifying news that computers can decode our humor now. We can’t tell jokes over their little silicon heads any more – they’ve […]
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 moreBat sex: Dirty enough to make trouble.
New Scientist uncorks a biological scandal involving research into the naughty things bats do after dark: University College Cork in Ireland is coming under international […]
Aw, the widdew scientist want to tawk aww gwown up!
Yep. Science Daily says it’s a good idea to talk to children using grown-up language: Academic language is characterised by difficult, abstract words and complex […]
Science Art: Barnard’s Star, by Kate Horowitz.
after Ann Druyan I send for you my heartbeat, the rhythms of my latest dream. You are just now finding the frozen clicks of muscles, […]
10 limbs for hugging!
The Christian Science Monitor (reprinting LiveScience) has published the greatest science headline I think I’ve ever read: School-bus sized squid actually quite friendly, study finds. […]
I**AM**V-GER***
That’s what Sydney’s Daily Telegraph wants me to hear when they tell me about a strange malfunction affecting the Voyager 2 space probe: But now […]
Mammoth blood lives again.
Science magazine brings us a step closer to a Pleistocene Park by reporting on the creation of living mammoth blood: By inserting a 43,000-year-old woolly […]
What happened to the ozone hole?
In case you were wondering, what with all the climate change talk nowadays, LiveScience reminds us that there’s still a hole in the sky: First, […]
Science Art: ATP Synthase, Essential Cell Biology.
This video is from Essential Cell Biology, 3rd Edition by Alberts, Bray, Hopkin, Johnson, Lewis, Raff and Roberts (and apparently not from Tokyo Institute of […]
“The Poetry of Reality” by Symphony of Science.
More. They made more. Yes. Information here.
Watch out where the huskies go….
NASA, Discovery News reports, has just found evidence of life on Earth. By locating yellow snow: Using their Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on the EO-1 […]
How climate change works.
Finally, finally, NASA explains in clear, simple terms why they think humans are behind global warming: Based on a combination of paleoclimate data and models, […]
Zap goes the mushroom.
No, not like that. PhysOrg reveals the way lightning makes the mushrooms grow: A four-year study carried out at Iwate University in northern Japan on […]
Space berries!
Purdue University researchers have devised a menu for a mission to Mars (or further) – fresh strawberries grown in space: Cary Mitchell, professor of horticulture, […]
Swap DNA with bugs.
Feeling like you need more intimacy in your life? Science Daily reveals an alternative to finding that special person in your life. Nature provides a […]