Tardigrade proteins can slow aging in humans.
Science Daily reminds us again of the charms of the humble, unkillable water bear, the tardigrade, a creature that can withstand nearly anything and just […]
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…
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Science Art: Four Phymata species from “Notas Sobre Phymatidae Neotropicales II,” October 1951.
An illustration of four ambush bugs from Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Or parts of ambush bugs. At […]
SONG: Great Big Love
SONG: “Great Big Love”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on The Guardian, 28 Feb 2024, “Humpback sex photographed for first time – […]
Baby dragons commute out of their caves.
The New York Times reports on olms — blind, pale, cave-dwelling salamanders once believed to be baby dragons — regularly traveling up to the surface […]
Science Art: HURRICANE FRAN – NARA – 17393787, by NASA.
Pictures of a storm from space. Big hurricanes are big! Fran was a Category 3 major hurricane – so a big storm, but far from […]
Ancient viruses gave us our brains.
“Language is a virus,” said William S. Burroughs. Now, Science Daily reports that researchers at Altos Labs-Cambridge Institute of Science have found that intelligence itself […]
Science Art: Relative Position of Observer and Observed in Direct Ophthalmoscopy, Arthur W. Head, 1917.
You gotta get right up in there if you really want to see what’s going on in those eyes. This is an illustration from a […]
Milking the amphibian
NPR has a story about a caecilian. Not Sicilian, but South American, these are to salamanders what glass snakes are to lizards: a legless version […]
Bumblebees teach each other.
Nature shares a study that found that bumblebees somehow communicate the solutions to complex puzzles to each other, something that only humans were thought to […]
Science Art: Earth by Henry De la Beche, from Researches in Theoretical Geology, 1834.
This depiction of Earth might be the first such image of our planet as seen from space. No human (as far as we know) had […]
Humpback sex photographed for the first time – and it’s gay.
The Guardian runs a science story about a milestone in marine biology – the first time humpback whales have ever been caught on camera in […]
Odysseus tipped over on the Moon.
Reuters reports on the first private-corp lunar lander, who successfully touched down on the Moon and sent back useful data about conditions there. That’s the […]
Science Art: Styxosaurus and Xiphactinus/i>, by ABelov2014.
Styxosaurus is, or was, an elasmosaur – an undersea predator with a long neck and sharp teeth, all the better for grabbing ammonites and prehistoric […]
Chinese dragon fossil discovered.
NPR, among other outlets, has reported on the discovery of a real Chinese dragon in this, the Year of the Dragon. At least, it’s certainly […]
Gene test reveals your likelihood of getting 10 common illnesses
Health Day reports on a new DNA scan that reveals to you (and doctors, and who knows who else) just how likely you are to […]