Space bears, more like.
New Scientist has joined the chorus of publications huddling around the cutest space invaders ever. Swedish researchers have just proved that tiny creatures called tardigrades, […]
SONG: 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 moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: “Phases of the Moon” The New Students Reference Work
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry. Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
Science Art: Swift Naked Eye Gamma Burst
Click to embiggen Image Credit: NASA/Swift/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith and John Jones. On Mar 16, Earth’s most sophisticated telescopes were briefly blinded by a flash of […]
Uninterruptable Zen.
If you’re one of those people who straddle the gulf between science and creativity (and I think, deep down, most people are, cf. 43 folders)… […]
LHC fires beam.
And we all just shifted back in time by 3.214 seconds. Did you feel that?
Insomnia, meet inflammation.
I’ve sort of known this was true for years, but now ScienceDaily confirms it: lack of sleep has a direct correlation with inflammation in the […]
This Island Arctic.
For the first time in human history, the SolveClimate blog reports, it’s possible to circumnavigate the Arctic. Normally, this is a permanently frozen sea – […]
Fly like a bumblebee.
Scientists, as the Telegraph points out, have long been mystified by the bumblebee. It’s short and fat with stubby wings that, mathematically speaking, should never […]
Science Art: The moon seen from above Cuba, 2-24-2005
Click to embiggen. Image from "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth" at the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
Tom Giesler: My Anatomy
Tom Giesler does anatomical charts of emotional states. You should see them. For a visceral thrill, you understand.
Sarah Palin, Creationist Politician.
I’m sure Governor Palin has many fine qualities, but, according to Wired, her science policy appears not to be one of them: In a 2006 […]
Large Hadron Rap
Yes, the LHC is exciting. I own that. But is it *this* exciting? That’s a bunch of particle physicists (I think) dancing inside the LHC […]
Rainy weekends are all our fault.
New Scientist adds insult to injury by telling us that not only does it really rain more often on our days off, but that our […]
Baby Talk 101.
Keep it simple, short and repetitive! That’s what an international team of neurological researchers covered in PhysOrg.com found when they scanned infants’ brains while saying, […]
Morphine plus pot equals, like, no pain, man.
From the trenches of the War on Drugs comes a New Scientist pharmaceutical report that’s bound to have doctors and pain patients alike going “Duuuude.” […]