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 […]
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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1 Arm
2…
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 moreHow 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 […]
What 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 […]