Science Art: Some NACA Muroc personnel with snowman, 1949.
Click to embiggen In the good old days, computers looked like this. “Computer” was a job, not a tool, and it was often done by […]
Science 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 moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreOut of Asia.
The “tree where Man was born” might not be growing near Cape Town after all, some archeologists have said recently on PhysOrg. It might have […]
Blue Gatorade heals broken spines.
Or, really, Science Daily explains, it’s the blue food dye that can heal and prevent spinal injuries: In an article published online in the Proceedings […]
We’re not brilliant, but…
LiveScience tells us that we really do glow: To learn more about this faint visible light, scientists in Japan employed extraordinarily sensitive cameras capable of […]
Repeat after ussss: SQUID is FRIEND.
Science Daily has gallantly leaped to the defense of the sadly misunderstood Humboldt squid: For years Seibel has heard stories claiming that Humboldt squid will […]
And we’ll use it to save the humpback whales.
PhysOrg brings back memories of Star Trek IV (the time-traveling whale one) with the revelation of a new state of matter – transparent aluminum: ‘What […]
Science Art: Planet Earth, Seen by the Apollo 11.
Click to embiggen On July 22, 1969, when Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong were on their way home after going as far away […]
Drones that think.
Endgadgets prepares us for robot dominance of the skies by 2047: In its recently released “Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Plan 2009-2047” report, the US Air […]
Oh. That smell.
New Scientist reacquaints us with the smell of fear: Lilianne Mujica-Parodi, a cognitive neuroscientist at Stony Brook University in New York and colleagues collected sweat […]
Good doggie. Smart baby.
Health Day News reports on a new neuroscience project from Brigham Young University demonstrating the emotional wisdoms of infants. They’ve shown that babies, like Dr. […]
Mouse made from scratch. (Just add stem cells!)
Scientific American really does incur a sense of wonder and mystery sometimes. Here’s a group of scientists who have turned a bunch of stem cells […]
Acid therapy.
Der Spiegel is sounding the call – psychedelics are coming back to the lab… and helping people heal: “I would welcome it if it were […]
Science Art: The Apollo 11 Launch.
Click to embiggen This is a Saturn V rocket, the largest, heaviest vehicle ever to hurl itself from our small ball of mud into the […]
Lights out for Ares?
New Scientist’s “Short Sharp Science” blog is not very hopeful about the rocket that’s supposed to take us to Mars. Apparently, there was an oversight […]
The Crocodillo
I can’t figure out why something like this wouldn’t have survived pretty much anything. National Geographic reports on the discovery of an armored, omnivorous, desert-dwelling […]