Love from the inside out.
Esquire sings with neurological romance, using brain scans to tell a husband’s stirring story of the brain in love: Against all odds, I’m still hot […]
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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1 Arm
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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 moreAlive in the ice.
LiveScience has interviewed some microbiologists who have woken up an alien(-ish) organism from the Greenland ice cap after a 120,000-year nap: “Microbes have found ways […]
That healing fizz.
So you get a cut – ouch! – and you put a band-aid on it, but first, you make sure you disinfect it with hydrogen […]
What’s squeezing Betelgeuse?
National Geographic breaks the worrying news that Betelgeuse is shrinking: Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, first measured the star in 1993 with an […]
Science Art: Gustave Whitehead on the #21, by Dick Howell
Gustave Whitehead was a Bavarian immigrant to Connecticut who in all likelihood made a steam-powered machine fly for more than half a mile in 1899 […]
A SONIC BLACK HOLE!
That sounds so totally metal, doesn’t it? Technology Review explains how to make a sound so heavy, no light can escape: One of the many […]
Monster Jellyfish RISE!
The Discovery Channel salutes the new owners of Planet Earth, now that we humans have eliminated the fish that were keeping them in check. Whales, […]
I’ve been saying it all along.
This science comic tells the truth. They do, you know.
The delinquent gene?
I’m not sure what to make of PhysOrg’s declaration that scientist have isolated the gene that leads people to join gangs and perform acts of […]
The disgusted right.
Science Daily reveals a scientific correlation between being, like, grossed out, and being socially conservative – a link between the O’Reilly Factor and the ick […]
Drinking air.
It’s practically like the moisture farms in Star Wars. Scientific Blogging has this thing about how we could be getting drinking water from *humidity* and […]
Science Art: Mort de Harris (1824), from the Tissandier Collection at the Library of Congress.
Click to embiggen. The Death of Harris, who jumped from a hydrogen balloon in 1824. It was not a “perfectly good balloon,” as the sky […]
None more deep.
New Scientist has a picture taken by the world’s deepest-diving robot: “Nereus is like no other deep submergence vehicle,” says oceanographer Tim Shank of WHOI. […]
Laughing apes.
The AP is laughing it up over sensitive research into what makes apes laugh: To investigate that, Marina Davila Ross of the University of Portsmouth […]
A mote in an Eye Ball.
I’ve just been interviewed in this new zine, Eye Ball. It is a dictionary of joy and interesting things. There are entries consisting of bhaji […]