Robo-Dog Soldiers
Well, we knew about robot dogs and we’ve heard about robot soldiers – but unless you were paying close attention, you might not have heard […]
Science Art: Exoplanets Poster, Institute of Physics, 2023
This is a… well, it’s pretty self-explanatory, really. Unlike most of the images collected here, it’s got its…
Read moreScience Art: Avro Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar.
This is not a movie prop, but a working prototype of the Avrocar, a disc-shaped flying machine that graced the …
Read moreSONG: Fine Altar Stone
SONG: “Fine Altar Stone”. (available as .ogg here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on IFL Science, 25 Sep 20…
Read moreScience Art: Turner +2: The Best CB Microphone in the World, 1966.
This is an ad from the April 1966 “Tools and Test Measurement Issue” of Popular Electronics, which I found on a…
Read moreScience Art: Diagram illustrating the inherent conspicuousness of an eye-spot..., Cott, 1942.
An illustration showing how noticeable an eye actually is, from the text The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Ra…
Read morePerfectly cromulent for publication
SciAm’s news blog reveals the Simpsonization of cosmology: I emailed Kachru, one of the most prominent younger researchers working on string theory, to get the […]
The future is now.
Via Wired’s Danger Room comes news from the US Army’s Future Combat Systems. They need a new name because we’re already living in the future: […]
The 62-mile-high club
Discover raises a slippery space question… as if NASA didn’t have enough scandal to deal with lately: When missions lasted no more than a few […]
Science Art: Chaetopoda by Ernst Haeckel
Chaetopoda by Ernst Haeckel. More incredible illustrations by him here.
My Mechanical Mom
From New Scientist comes news of the womb-on-a-chip: Fujii’s team has created a “lab on a chip” that is 2 millimetres across and 0.5 millimetres […]
Maybe “overlords” isn’t an exaggeration
New Scientist reports that predatory jumbo squid have returned to California’s coast… and may be there to stay: Ferocious, pack-feeding jumbo squid have invaded waters […]
The Amygdaloids
From Salon comes assurance that we are not alone: All right, the occasion wasn’t a concert but a graduation ceremony for 10,000 students in the […]
Pleasure and placebo
Nature plumbs the depths of one of the most mysterious processes in medicine. Researchers have found that the placebo effect – when “fake” medicine creates […]
The Noble Bonobo
The New Yorker, of all publications, has a fascinating Ian Parker article on the natural history of the bonobo – the sexy primate that’s supposed […]
Ice Volcanoes of Charon!
Nature brings new observations of Ice Volcanoes in Outer Space. Cook speculates that liquid water deep within Charon’s core is mixed with ammonia, which acts […]
SONG: A World Without Us.
SONG: “A World Without Us” [Download] (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. I’m the guy who put this questionable site up on the […]
Baboon birth control (Do you dare to eat a plum?)
New Scientist reports on African primates using natural contraceptives from, of all things, plums: Like the synthetic progestogens used in the pill, phyto-progestogens have a […]
Schizophrenia in Paradise
Science News reports on Trouble in Paradise – how feelings of “social defeat” could be responsible for triggering schizophrenia, which might explain why the otherwise […]
Instrument construction: Bowed Psaltery
How to make a bowed psaltery. And, in case you’re wondering: What IS a bowed psaltery anyway? Why, it’s something like a cimbalom… or maybe […]