Land of the Rising Solar Panel
PhysOrg reveals why Japan is going to outlast us all – because instead of (or in addition to) prospecting for oil reserves, they’re going to […]
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…
Read moreUnclean! UNCLEAN!
New Scientist‘s microbiological reporting really makes you scared to ever go in the shower again: “Run your shower for a minute or so before you […]
Science Art: Flying Lemur, Webster’s New International, 1911.
This is the flying lemur, or colugo, also known as the order Dermoptera – the “skin-wings.” They’re related to shrews and bats moreso than real […]
We can see electrons.
Or, well, their valences, which is as good as it gets without Heisenberg getting in the way. Yeah, the Corante Pipeline has a post describing […]
One-way ticket to Mars.
That’s the trick. That’s how this guy in South Africa’s Mail & Guardian (and elsewhere) says we’ll do it. We’ll be able to send people […]
Bats in daylight.
This may just be a behavioral curiosity, but I can’t help wonder if the devastation from white-nose fungus is playing more havoc than we realize. […]
Behold the roc!
Or at least a very, very big, mythical bird… that turned out to be real: “It was certainly capable of swooping down and taking a […]
Undoing antibiotic resistance.
The Antipodean ABC Science News has hopeful news about antibiotic resistant superbugs. They might have an Achilles heel after all: Researchers at New York University […]
Science Art: Voyager Spacecraft During Vibration Testing, 1977
Click to embiggen A still life from the NASA Great Images collection. This was a prototype of the craft that went on to explore the […]
Human see. Chimps do.
We’ve been watching chimpanzee’s faces. Why not? They can be funny to look at, often, and they can help us understand how we communicate emotions […]
How do geckos drop their tails?
ABC Science (the Australian network, not the American one) is taking a long look at lizards – specifically, the medical information we can get from […]
Affordable solar? Hair’s the ticket.
OK, sorry for that headline. Ahem. But here! There are these two kids in Nepal who figured out how to make solar energy a heck […]
Reclaiming forgotten power.
I just had an enjoyable email exchange with a friend who asked me about something he’d been wondering. (These are generally the best kinds of […]
Terror from the farm.
Johns Hopkins University is unleashing a wave of… no, wait. It’s farms. Johns Hopkins is just warning about it. Farms, however, are unleashing a wave […]
Science Art: Discoaster surculus.
Click to embiggen This is Discoaster surculus. Remember last week, that ocean picture that showed millions of coccolithophores floating in the ocean, sucking up CO2 […]