Lasers! Lasers!
Lasers! We can fire them into the clouds and they can summon the lightning! (says infoniac.com). And we can fire them at each other and […]
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: Success!
Click to embiggen. The Phoenix landed on May 25, 2008, and promptly took a picture of its own leg. It’s a tradition. Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, […]
Cheap, inflatable, drives over cliffs.
What is it? Gizmodo answers: The amazing inflatable, cliff-jumping car: It’ll be shipped to you in two boxes and take roughly two hours for two […]
NASA: “We suppressed global warming data. Sorry.”
It’s reports like these (a pdf) that challenge one’s sense of hope. On the other hand, at least we can read it now. Excerpts: On […]
BLDG BLOG, on monkeys, robots and Mars.
Quite simply, yes. Yes.
SONG: Bathysphere (penitential cover version)
SONG: “Bathysphere” (cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally by SMOG, although I first heard the cover by Cat Power (scroll […]
Deadlier Rattlers?
LiveScience brings up the unpleasant possibility that rattlesnakes appear to be developing more toxic venom out West: “This is a brand new phenomenon,” said Jeffrey […]
Star Wars Holo-Tech.
The Age reports on the FUTURE finally arriving in the PRESENT in the form of moving 3d holograms! In what Telstra says is a national […]
Science Art: Rotating Tesseract.
Stolen shamelessly from Wikipedia’s “Fourth Dimension” article, where it illustrates a four-dimensional object rotating on one axis. The graphic was orginally uploaded by Jason Hise, […]
Viking DNA
LiveScience reports on the tantalizing possibility of creating a Jurassic Park for bearded boat-warriors: Jorgen Dissing of the University of Copenhagen and colleagues say they […]
Hairy Frog Breaks Own Bones to Create Claws.
Well, I’d certainly be terrified. Not only does this amphibian have hair, but New Scientist reports, it also snaps its own bones to create claws […]
No dengue fever, please. We’re British mosquitoes.
Nature (subscribers only) has announced that the plan to release sterile mosquitoes into the wild (mentioned months ago in this free Wired report) is going […]
Science Art: “Rosetta Stone”
There it is – the key that unlocked ancient Egypt. One message in three alphabets. From the Library of Christian Theological Seminary, found on Wikimedia […]
SONG: Mesonychoteuthis Hamiltonii
SONG: “Mesonychoteuthis Hamiltonii” (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Colossal Squid Comes Out Of Ice”, BBC News, 28 April 2008, as used […]
Three Red Spots.
New Scientist on the third-largest hurricane in the solar system: Now, a third red spot, about half the size of Red Spot Junior, has broken […]