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 […]
Science Art: Body-centered cubic (bcc) unit cell of iron, 2009
If you were curious about the crystalline structure of iron mentioned in the last post, here it is — a molecul…
Read moreScience Art: MOON: For the Benefit of Humanity, 2023
It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreScience Art: Bubble chamber with colour enhanced tracks, 2026
This is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreScience Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.
Starfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
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
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreWe’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 […]
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 […]