A swarming army of cyborg bugs.
Wired reminds us that the U.S. military now has a functioning army of cyborg insects: DARPA’s Hi-MEMS program aims to implant place micro-mechanical systems [MEMS] […]
Science Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreI’m on Rumblefish.
How very unexpected. But pleasant nonetheless.
SkySails: Success!
The new age of sail can start now.
SONG: My Fingertips Are Weightless.
SONG: “My Fingertips Are Weightless” (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Origami spaceplane aims for space station descent”, New Scientist, 21 January […]
Science Art: Tröpfchentextur
A microscopic image of liquid crystal by Wikimedia Commons user "Minutemen." Happy Easter.
Expelled from Expelled.
You’ve no doubt heard of the Ben Stein movie extolling the virtues of Intelligent Design and bemoaning the fact that it isn’t being allowed in […]
Space Boomerang: Conclusion.
It came back. They’re not sure why.
Music Brain.
Science News rhapsodizes over Johns Hopkins research into what happens in musicians’ brains that makes the music happen: “What we think is happening is that […]
Obama’s laser guns and medi-beams.
You might think that Wired is misguided when it publishes reports on our nation building tactical laser weapons and healing devices made from LEDs (the […]
6e+13 picoseconds of silence for Arthur C. Clarke.
Arthur C. Clarke’s last message to the world: So many of his wishes have already come true. From the BBC: “Sir Arthur has left written […]
The Naming of Cats is a Serious Matter.
Washington Post reports on the one of the deepest mysteries of the animal world – the strange history of the domestic cat: In one of […]
No pizza, no laundry, no one can hear you scream.
Yeah, it’s feature news from ABC, but still – betcha didn’t know what astronauts have to put up with: You can’t freeze-dry pizza or dehydrate […]
Long life. Little women.
New Scientist reports on geneticists who might have isolated the specific genes for longevity: [T]he [Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University] team… identified […]
Science Art: The Magnificent Sombrero Galaxy
Click for larger image This is a visible-light image of M-104, the Sombrero Galaxy, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. If our eyes were sharp […]
Is it the munchies?
Medicinenet has a real downer of a report, dude. Stoners are more likely to contract severe gum disease: After controlling for other risk factors for […]