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 […]
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 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 moreWhat was I saying about whales?
BBC reports they’re delicious! And oh yeah, you may already have tasted them: A genetic analysis of meat found in Los Angeles showed that it […]
Science Art: Le Physale Cylindrique, Histoire naturelle de Lacépède, 1876.
Click to embiggen Another gorgeous old book illustration from Old Book Illustrations, this one from a Belgian natural history text. It’s a beached sperm whale, […]
Making pavement pay.
Covered this as a concept before here, but PhysOrg is reporting that a town in France is making step-powered pavement a reality: Authorities in Toulouse […]
Obama brings back Orion capsule.
Discovery News makes me curious, again, about the future of American space travel: President Obama is reviving the capsule component of the scuttled Constellation program […]
An older testament.
The Vancouver Sun unearths the story of a possible Assyrian source for the Hebrew covenant: The tablet, dating to about 670 BC, is a treaty […]
Sushi superpowers.
New Scientist hypes a pretty cool discovery about gene-swapping bacteria changing sushi-eaters’ digestion: Genes regularly shuttle between different bacteria, offering each other new traits such […]
SONG: Aquarium (penitential Robyn Hitchcock cover)
SONG: “Aquarium” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally by Robyn Hitchcock. SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. There’s no specific scientific […]
Science Art: Colour Wheel by Moses Harris, c.1770
Click to embiggen Moses Harris was an entomologist in Britain at about the time the American colonies started that unpleasantness with tea stamps and flintlock […]
“WHAT did you just pick up?”
BBC shares the cute story of the discovery of what could be our greatest grandparents, the oldest members of the genus Homo: The site was […]
Friendlier dragons.
Explorers in the Philippines have, New Scientist reports, just discovered a cousin of the fearsome Komodo dragon that eats fruit: Measuring 2 metres long, Varanus […]
Lizard-brain learning.
Science Daily gets primitive with research into how the oldest parts of our brains help us learn: Many of the mundane skills that we apply […]
Breasts save lives. And money.
No, really. The IT Wire covers a new Pediatrics study that breastfeeding could save 911 lives and billions of dollars annually: …[T]he paper in the […]
Comets made us icy.
Telegraph.co.uk reports on a new theory that hail from a comet’s tail caused a 1,000-year freeze: Thousands of chunks of material from the comet would […]