If you were curious about the crystalline structure of iron mentioned in the last post, here it is — a molecul…
Read moreIt’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreThis is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreStarfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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1 Arm
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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”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreLovely ladies, all of them. Science, the mother of Steam and Electricity, presents her children to their new, lugubriously lolling caretakers. This was, of course, […]
SONG: Up, Up, Upsub1. ABSTRACT: So, I wrote that song about New Zealand’s not-so-mythical giant eagle, (Harpagornis moorei), but I wasn’t really satisfied with the […]
SPACE.com says we’re ready to set up shop on Luna, now that we’ve found reserves of water up there: While scientists continued to suspect that […]
ScienceInsider dares to contradict thousands of Alias fans with “facts” and “experimental proof” from a neuroscientist who explains why torture doesn’t work: (Quoted from Trends […]
SONG: “Up, Up, Up.” (To download, double right click and “Save Target As…”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Maori legend of man-eating bird is true”, from The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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