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 […]
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 moreOh. 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Feeling vague?
Don’t let this happen to you.
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 […]