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 […]
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 moreMammoth 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 […]
Science Art: Cerra Armazona at night, European Southern Observatory.
Click to embiggen This is the site where the Europeans are building the world’s largest visible-light telescope, the E-ELT, or European Extremely Large Telescope. The […]
Washing away.
Slate (yeah, not the first place I look for science news, but hey) unearths the sad truth about beaches that aren’t going to be beaches […]
Fast glider goes… ooops.
So, you’d think this’d be bigger news, but I heard about it on the Geeky Gadgets blog. (That’s its actual name.) DARPA, the military research […]
Science Art: Florida Everglades, Landsat satellite, 2000
Click to embiggen This is the Florida Everglades, the widest, slowest river in the world. Anything that grows in South Florida does so because of […]
Go figure.
Fittingly enough, I posted that put-sugar-in-my-Coke song on the anniversary of New Coke’s introduction. Funny.