Oops. Uh, sorry, Martians.
“Oops,” of course, is a word that means science is going about its job correctly, because by discovering mistakes we learn what works and what […]
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 morePaul Calle’s Apollo sketches
In 1969, NASA artist Paul Calle followed the Apollo astronauts as they prepared to climb into a capsule and ride a rocket to the moon. […]
Bisphenol-A: a Big Tobacco-style cover-up?
That seems to be what Science Blogs just published… an industry memo from the North American Metal Packaging Alliance, Inc. covering strategies for combating the […]
Skin, hair… stem cells?
The Guardian is covering a new medical breakthrough involving miracle cures made from the patients’ own skin and hair: People who are born with Fanconi […]
Science Art: Pelton Wheel, p. 1593, Webster’s New International.
Behold the Pelton wheel. This is a kind of water turbine designed to turn babbling brooks into industrious electrical generators. Beautiful imagery from the Wikipedia […]
Needed: Rosetta Stones, good condition, not yet used.
Just in case you thought we knew everything there was to know about the ancient world, New Scientist brings a little mystery back with their […]
Gibraltar may crumble…
…but this new memory technology Neatorama’s talking about will be here to stay: Berkeley… researcher Alex Zettl and colleagues created a physical memory cell composed […]
Global warming real estate.
You’d expect the rising ocean levels to decimate coastlines, but the New York Times points out that melting glaciers are, rather surprisingly, raising land levels […]
Science Art: S125-E-007900 (Canary Islands Vortices), STS-125 Shuttle Mission Imagery
Click to embiggen vastly June marks the official beginning of hurricane season. Here’s where they start from, whirling spirals off the coast of North Africa. […]
SONG: “If I Believe It”
SONG: “If I Believe It” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body “, New […]
Komodo dragons: venomous after all. And how.
I’ve always reveled in the way Komodo dragons killed their prey – by having dirty mouths, chomping on quicker-moving prey and letting septicemia slowly finish […]
Clouds of germs (and germs of clouds).
PhysOrg.com has a new piece of the climate change puzzle, a discovery some call the “holy grail” of climate science: The effects of tiny airborne […]
Make mine an iced tea.
BBC says that Coke’ll kill you, man: This is because the drink can cause blood potassium to drop dangerously low, they report in the International […]
Their Spock probably has a beard, too.
Have you ever really looked at the logo for China’s space agency? Seem familiar? Yes, you have seen it before.
Spirit in the sand.
The Mars Rover Spirit could use a couple two-by-fours, the LA Times reports, because its wheels are spinning in place… a very faraway place: Over […]