Mutant Amish Superhearts.
Yes, maybe these simple farm folk *do* have better hearts than the rest of us. That’s what the BBC seems to be saying about new […]
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 moreScience Art: “Bacteria” The New Students Reference Work
Some organic geometry from The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry. Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user […]
Life On Ice.
Antarctica, LiveScience reveals, isn’t the wasteland it appears. In fact, it has more species than the Galapagos Islands: A team of 23 scientists from five […]
Dolphin Tools.
Science News reports on new findings that our intelligent neighbors to the sea have finally been spotted using tools: These dolphins dive to the bottom […]
I feel… different. Prettier.
RedOrbit.com has a comprehensive overview (and yes, this is a summary of an overview) of research proving male organisms around the world are becoming feminized: […]
Weight-busting Worms.
No, they don’t literally suck the fat from your waistline, but Scienceblog.com does show how roundworms are beating the battle of the bulge: A previously […]
That’s a C-sharp, right?
Biology News Net had a study not so long ago into how our brains recognize music. Researchers at University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music […]
Science Art: Explorer VII
Click to embiggen The Explorer VII satellite, carried into space aboard a Juno II rocket on October 13, 1959. It weighed 91.5 pounds, and analyzed […]
Einstein’s Fridge
Albert Einstein: atomic physicist, scientific genius, refrigerator maker? Back in the 1920s, he and his pupil Leo Szilard saw a need for a refrigerator (which […]
Island of 10,000 Creatures.
National Geographic has some great images of tiny crabs, shrimp and other colorful creatures among the 10,000 species just catalogued on Espiritu Santo, Republic of […]
Paper Memory
Physorg.com writes it down to remember, using new techniques to create paper flash drives: Martins, a scientist at the New University of Lisbon in Portugal, […]
Solar Sea Slug
New Scientist loves nudibranchs… especially when they can generate their own power from sunlight: Elysia chlorotica is a lurid green sea slug, with a gelatinous […]
Ancient High.
Dude. Cannabis researchers in China have found world’s oldest stash: CBC reports: Researchers say they have located the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, in a […]
Science Art: Gathering the Ripe Pods of the Cacao, or Chocolate, Tree
Click to embiggen Scanned from The Encyclopedia of Food (The stories of foods by which we live, how and where they grow and are marketed, […]
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower….
Technology Review covers the breakthrough of MIT chemist Daniel Nocera, who has figured out how to make like a leaf… and turn sunlight into fuel: […]