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 […]
SONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read more“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.
SONG: Mexican Coke.
SONG: “Mexican Coke” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably […]
…but the kind with a club that belongs to him.
New Scientist reopens that old, old scandal between we modern humans and our sexy, sexy Neanderthal cousins: Instead, a team led by Jeffrey Long, at […]
Science Art: Huge Solar Prominence Eruption, NASA STEREO
What, you think that Christmas cracker in Iceland was something? This was last week’s real eruption: This prominence is 500,000 miles long. That’s a stream […]