Grow Your Own Teeth.
Wired opens wide and spits out a story on a dental breakthrough. If you happen to have lost any of your teeth (ahem), you don’t […]
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience 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 more5th grader corrects Smithsonian Museum.
Yep, he might be an 11-year-old kid, but at least he was paying attention in class: Since it opened in 1981, millions of people have […]
Science Art: Red Giant V838 Monocerotis
Click to embiggen Photo by NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). You can read more about V838 Monocerotis exploding and swallowing nearby planets […]
Big Brains? So What.
Discover reviews a new book that proves Devo was right – big brains aren’t an evolutionary advantage. The book, called Big Brains, looks at the […]
Empathic Healing: Imaginary Massage for Phantom Limbs.
New Scientist reports on the discovery that amputees experiencing phantom limb pain – the unscratchable itch on a missing limb – can give themselves a […]
Algae Biodiesel in Production.
They’re squeezing oil from pond scum for real: The facility, located in Rio Hondo Texas, will produce an estimated 4.4 million gallons of algal oil […]
Doomsday Seed Vault Cooked and Eaten.
So much for planet Earth’s future. The Norwegian scientists behind the Svalbard Global Seed Vault – a facility described as “Noah’s Ark for Earth’s Agriculture” […]
Earliest recording predates Edison.
The International Herald Tribune says a Frenchman recorded “Au Clair de la Lune” 20 years before the phonograph was invented: The 10-second recording of a […]
Science Art: “Australisk fauna,” Nordisk Familjebok Encyclopedia
Click to embiggen This is an image from an old Norwegian encyclopedia, the “Norwegian Familybook” published sometime from 1904 to 1926. In Norwegian, the animals […]
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] […]
I’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 […]