Space Boomerang: Conclusion.
It came back. They’re not sure why.
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 moreMusic 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 […]
Light from Salmon what???
Endgadget is freaking out over a joint University of Cincinnati/Air Force breakthrough creating an environmentally friendly light source, called BioLEDs, out of salmon sperm: The […]
15 Tiny Pictures.
The Guardian is featuring an incredible slideshow of the Wellcome Image Awards 2008. Go, look, be awed.
Catepillars Remember.
More poetry from New Scientist, reporting on Georgetown University research into the memory of butterflies: Seventy-eight percent of the caterpillars that were shocked directly after […]
It’s Full of Holes.
Discover reports on a new bicycle frame that’s stronger than titanium, steel, carbon composites or aluminum. It’s lighter, too – because it’s full of holes: […]
Science Art: SEM Leaf (1875x)
A leaf, with something on it, as seen at nearly 2,000 times normal size through a scanning electron microscope (SEM). There are more SEM images […]
Eat Whale?
The Reuters Environment Desk had a doozy of a story recently on how Norwegian lobbyists want us to eat whale to save the planet: The […]