SONG: Like Salamanders Do
SONG: “Like Salamanders Do” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Regenerated legs no big trick for salamanders”, Reuters, 1 July 2009, […]
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…
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Wolfe on the Space Race
That fella who wrote The Right Stuff got into the New York Times this week and allowed to do a little ranting about the big […]
… and Jupiter, while we’re at it.
An Australian amateur astronomer named Bird (or, IRL, Anthony Wesley) just spotted something slamming into Jupiter – a collision that’s been confirmed by the big […]
Bomb the moon.
Yeah, we’re gonna do it. Stupid moon, all smug and silvery and sneaky, looking down at us all night long. Scientific American’s right. We don’t […]
Science Art: Prachtkäfer aus der Grube Messel (Splendor Beetle of the Messel Pit)
Click to embiggen vastly This is a fossilized insect, one of the Buprestidae (or Splendor Beetles or Jewel Beetles, from the collection of the Hessisches […]
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Big fish! Hungry fish!
You may have heard of the giant prehistoric shark called megalodon. And maybe other megafauna, like Megalosaurus or even the mighty mechanical Megasaurus. But LiveScience […]
Send Your Name To Mars!
It’s free! You can get your name on a microchip placed aboard the next Mars Rover, just by filling in this form here! It may […]
If salamanders can do it…
Reuters recently brought up some research into how salamanders do that whole regenerating limbs thing: In salamanders, the blood vessels contract quickly and limit bleeding […]
Living large.
New Yorker valiantly tries to explain – scientifically – why it is that Americans (and the rest of the Western World) are getting so darned […]
Loonier than Luna.
The archives of Space.com have produced an old but strikingly weird story about a strikingly weird discovery – a second moon orbiting invisibly around Earth: […]
Science Art: Aphis Wolf, from Webster’s New International
This is the aphis wolf, or aphid lion, or, in other words, either the larva of the much less-threateningly named ladybug or lacewing. This particular […]
Listen to the lituus.
About two months ago, the BBC tells us, Scottish researchers used computer models to bring a lost medieval instrument back to life: Bach’s motet (a […]
Vatican funds stem-cell research.
The Australian Associated Press reports on a new move from the Catholic Church, which is offering a $100,000 research grant for work on adult stem […]
We’ll go a-waltzing….
Australian researchers have just discovered a trio of never-before-seen dinosaurs in the Winton Formation. Two of them died at the bottom of one of those […]