Rock Will Save The Planet
OK, it’s a specific kind of rock: CleanTechnica.com: Scientists at Columbia University have discovered that a rock found in the Middle East can be used […]
Science Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreNature Deficit Disorder?
Seed contributor Jonah Lehrer posts to Scienceblogs about the brain-boosting effects of a stroll in the woods: Because you can’t help but stop and notice […]
Best Science Headline Contender:
From the British paper The Register, reporting on the ammonia-laden refrigerator being ejected from the International Space Station: ASTRONAUT SPACE DUMP PONG-BOMB FRAG SHOWER TODAY […]
Steampunk Laughs Last: Hydrogen from Solar.
PhysOrg.com reveals the unexpected origin of a new alternative energy technology – it isn’t new at all: …[I]t may seem a bit out of place […]
Electric Eel Power
PhysOrg reports on a slithery new power source – the eel generator: Electric eels channel the output of thousands of specialized cells called electrocytes to […]
Science Art: Dykeri, fig 6, Nordisk familjebok
Click to embiggen In my deep-sea diving suit. Found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
For That Atomic Guitar Sound.
New Scientist goes behind the music to tell the real story of Manchester rocker and physics prof Andrew Murray, who figured out a new way […]
Alternative fuels are popping up like mushrooms.
Montana State University researchers have found diesel fuel growing on trees in Patagonia. Well, OK, it’s the next best thing – a fungus that churns […]
No, Really.
Scientific American reports on the psychology of sarcasm and on new studies that suggest irony is hardwired into our brains: In one experiment, [Penny M. […]
Magnetic Portals Surround Us.
We are surrounded, NASA astronomers now say, by flux transfer events – fast-moving, invisible tunnels to the Sun: A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth […]
The Beatles Knew All The Chords… Plus One.
Musical mystery solved after 40 years! It took an obsessive mathematician to discover what the heck the Beatles were playing for the opening chord of […]
Science Art: Cloud, dust storm over central China, 6-3-2002
Click to embiggen. Image from "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth" at the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
Robinson Crusoe Found.
Yes, the plucky, inventive island castaway Robinson Crusoe was a fictional character. But author Robert Louis Stevenson, writing in the mid-1800s, based him on the […]
Living magnets, shaped like weapons.
Researchers peering through microscopes at ancient mud have found the fossilized remains of a truly bizarre life form: “Imagine our surprise to discover not only […]
Baby, It’s Cold Outside.
The LA Times reports on a new psychological study in Science that proves something we all probably take for granted – that warmth is more […]