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: 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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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: “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 […]
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 […]