This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreReally, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreForbes covers a climate-change story about global trade and supply chains (something the pandemic taught the world about), focused on that thin isthmus between the Atlantic and Pacific… Read the rest “Dry canal costs billions.”
PhysOrg has another delightful story about prehistoric invertebrates. This time, researchers have discovered a half-a-billion-year-old enormous predator worm from the icy reaches… Read the rest “Giant, ancient predator worms discovered in Arctic Greenland”
PhysOrg has the story of a crab whose gills and other soft tissues were preserved against all odds for 75 million years:
… Read the rest “Fossil preserves the soft parts of a 75 million-year-old crab.”In a paper recently published in Palaeontologia Electronica, Dr.
This tasty-looking fruit is from a medical text – Medical Botany: or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Pharmacopoeias;… Read the rest “Science Art: Punica Granatum, 1829”
Forbes looks into a year-long study hoping to determine exactly what it is that makes cheddar cheese taste like cheddar and not gouda or Swiss or some other kind of cheese. The secret is in … Read the rest “What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?”
Mashable has an alien communication story with an aquatic twist. SETI and the Alaska Whale Foundation practiced for first contact by spending 20 minutes “conversing” with… Read the rest “SETI talked for 20 minutes with a whale.”
Two cats at dusk, growling in the snow.
The nights have been long, but they’re growing shorter.
May you survive your own lonely wilderness and find warmth and companionship where … Read the rest “Science Art: Lynxes, by Louis Sargent, 1909”
Ars Technica reports on a rocket launch from Jeff Bezos’ space company – the first in 15 months, after an engine failure destroyed a New Shepherd rocket. The new New Shepherd… Read the rest “Blue Origin is back in the space business.”
Harvard genetic researchers have struck on a novel way to restore hearing loss from damage and old age … with gene therapy that regenerated hair cells in the inner ear:
… Read the rest “New hair to heal hearing”A research team
SONG: “Burning Libraries”. (available as .ogg here)
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SOURCE: Based on The Guardian, 12 Oct 2023, “Researchers use AI to read word on ancient scroll burned… Read the rest “SONG: Burning Libraries”
BBC reports on a very, very cold case that’s been solved. A body found during roadwork, extending a highway between Cambridge and Huntington, England, has been conclusively identified… Read the rest “Solving the mystery of a 2,000-year-old body”
This is an illustration from a 1937 edition of Natural History magazine, an article called “Chinese Design.” This is a “Disk of Heaven,” or bi, a slightly mysterious… Read the rest “Science Art: Ancient Ritual White Jade Disk of Heaven…, 1937”
The Japan Times covers a brand new (to us) prehistoric dung beetle that a high school student discovered while breaking rocks in class:
… Read the rest “Japanese high schooler discovers beetle species.”During a geoscience class in September last year,
Defector, mostly a sports-and-social-commentary outlet, asks a scientific question: We’re now at a point, genetics-wise, where we’re ready to make de-extinction a real… Read the rest “What will it mean to bring extinct animals back?”
This is the cover of a report on the Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical “Navy Mini-Drone (STARS),” otherwise known as the Manta Ray. It was a fiberglass remote-controlled drone; … Read the rest “Science Art: Ryan 262 Manta Ray: Program Status Report cover, 1975”
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