Imaginary poisons.
New Scientist examines the harmful health effects of the power of negative thinking: The placebo effect has an evil twin: the nocebo effect, in which […]
Science 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 moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreFood wrapper plastics are in our blood.
Something’s gotten in The Charleston Gazette’s blood – and ours, too. You want to know the future? One word. Plastics: Around the world, scientists are […]
RIP, Eilene Galloway.
You should know who she is. She made NASA.
THEM! (Global Warming Edition)
Just because we’ve swapped climate change for nuclear apocalypse in our end-of-the-world imaginings, that doesn’t mean we have to give up our terror of giant […]
Science Art: Artist’s View of Extrasolar Planet HR 8799b by NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScl)
Click to embiggen vastly You can read the full story on Hubblesite.org; the short version – Hubble found this planet in 1998, but nobody realized […]
File under: Songs, non-scientific. (Not quite remixing Pocket’s “Sampo”)
You may or may not have heard about Pocket’s 2009 Singles Project, which involves Pocket remixing original songs from a list of indie all-stars (including […]
Hobbit feet.
The New York Times has nothing better to do than look at hobbit feet: The new anatomical evidence, being reported Thursday in the journal Nature, […]
Breathe out.
The MIT Technology Review (and other sources) have reported on a new technique that Canadian doctors devised for preparing lungs for transplants – or repairing […]
Mmmm. Neurology. Oh, yeah.
Nature Neuroscience (via the BBC) lets researchers push all the right buttons after they’ve discovered brave new ways to make us feel good: A team, […]
Cosmic dacquiri.
The Guardian explains an awful lot about how things have gotten so out of hand for so very, very long by revealing proof that we’re […]
Science Art: Schlieren photograph of a T-38 at Mach 1.1, altitude 13,700 feet, by Leonard Weinstein.
Click to embiggen This is what a sonic boom looks like, through a Schlieren camera – one outfitted to see differences in air pressure. The […]
Scratch that asteroid.
Science Daily blows a hole in what had been history’s biggest explosion with news that that colossal asteroid that made the Yucatan might not have […]
The sound of a hundred shrugging epidemiologists.
New Scientist is being reassuring – sort of – when it declares that this swine flu pandemic business isn’t any kind of surprise: But in […]
For those on the right, sorry, he really is joking.
The Colbert Report recently made science news over the space station naming controversy. Well, unbowed and unbloodied, the “right-wing” “pundit” once again “made the news” […]