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 moreI know, I know, but this is a double-blind study with around 400 hundred subjects published in The Lancet. It’s a little more technical than I like to get with these science-feed posts,… Read the rest “Probiotics to treat long covid?”
Ars Technica reports on a bafflingly huge exoplanet spotted by the Webb Space Telescope. It’s the size of Neptune, but closely orbiting a star much smaller than ours – a red … Read the rest “That planet is too big.”
This is a… well, it’s pretty self-explanatory, really. Unlike most of the images collected here, it’s got its own description printed right on it. These are alien planets,… Read the rest “Science Art: Exoplanets Poster, Institute of Physics, 2023”
Wired reveals a very strange insect-monitoring device called DAS, or “distributed acoustic sensing,” normally used to track vibrations made by seismic shifts and volcanic… Read the rest “Cicadas are so loud, they cause fiberoptic-cable interference.”
Yes, you read that correctly. Science News reports on an unusual distinction in the natural world. Chinstrap penguins manage to net a total of 11 hours of restful sleep every day, thanks … Read the rest “Micro-napping champions: chinstrap penguins”
The Markup looks at what it’s like when you start hiring nurses the way you catch a ride from Uber:
… Read the rest “App-driven gig-economy nurses.”Gig nursing apps have become hugely popular with both nurses and investors, as an estimated
This is not a movie prop, but a working prototype of the Avrocar, a disc-shaped flying machine that graced the skies between 1959 and 1961.
It’s basically a giant fan sending a jet of… Read the rest “Science Art: Avro Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar.”
CNN had a report on the resurfacing of 2,000-year-old carved faces in the stony banks of a stretch of the Amazon River, which have peeked above the waterline due to a record-breaking drought… Read the rest “Faces appear as the Amazon gets low.”
Thinking I could get anything decent done in four days was probably overly optimistic… but there’s something *mostly* done. More science to follow.
SONG: “Fine Altar Stone”. (available as .ogg here)
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SOURCE: Based on IFL Science, 25 Sep 2023, “The Stonehenge Altar Stone Didn’t Come From Where We Thought… Read the rest “SONG: Fine Altar Stone”
This is an ad from the April 1966 “Tools and Test Measurement Issue” of Popular Electronics, which I found on archive.org. Lovely design on this mic. Rakish angle, sporty blue… Read the rest “Science Art: Turner +2: The Best CB Microphone in the World, 1966.”
The Guardian looks back at a carbonized papyrus scorched by the lava that consumed Pompeii. University of Kentucky computer scientists have been able to decipher letters printed on the… Read the rest “AI is reading scrolls burned in Vesuvius.”
Scientific American upends the old idea that manly men evolved to hunt for meat for growing prehistoric families with physiological evidence that women – who are better endurance… Read the rest “Exercise scientists: women hunted, men gathered”
Popular Science reported on “ghost ships,” a.k.a. USVs (Unmanned Sea Vehicles), passing their latest targeting tests on maneuvers in the Middle East:
… Read the rest “Robot warships hitting targets in the open sea.”The tests, dubbed
An illustration showing how noticeable an eye actually is, from the text The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation, which looks at eyes, eyes everywhere, all kinds of eyes. The book … Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram illustrating the inherent conspicuousness of an eye-spot…, Cott, 1942.”
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