Stripper Experiment Finds Invisible Mating Signals
The idea that humans can somehow be unconsciously yanked around by pheromones – invisible, odorless, airborne chemicals – tends to make a lot of scientists […]
Science 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 moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreSensitive Spice.
Like it hot? Sure you do. Nature reveals how hot peppers can make anaesthetics work more potently – and more selectively – by “opening the […]
Are hatcheries killing endangered fish?
Nature brings troubling news from the saving endangered species front. A study has shown that fish raised in captivity really don’t do well in the […]
Poverty: It’s for your own good.
Marketplace listeners may have heard yesterday evening’s story about the Cuban health non-crisis. Contrary to what you might expect from the western hemisphere’s last and […]
Glassteel. Or something like it.
I remember “glassteel” being one of those fabulous, fictional substances that showed up a lot in sci-fi novels when I was growing up – the […]
Science Art: STEREO’s SECCHI-Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope, 5 March 2007
This image from NASA’s Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory shows our sun’s atmosphere in the temperature range of 1.5 million degrees Celsius. It’s part of a […]
Your printer is bad for you.
That’s what Science Daily says. They’re reporting on the discovery by Lidia Morawska of the University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, that particles given off […]
It’s a costeroid!
New Scientist talks about a… thing in space. It’s not an asteroid. It’s not a comet. It’s somehow both: It has been officially designated as […]
Vatican Astronomy
Pope Benedict XVI is hosting the Vatican’s second astronomical conference in seven years, reports the BBC: Father Jose Funes, the head of the Vatican Observatory, […]
Songbirds see the way
Nature unveils the unseen world of songbirds: They injected one tracer into the part of the forebrain known to be the only active area when […]
Science Art: Sputnik, 1957
A technician looks over history’s first satellite prior to its October 5, 1957 launch. Happy anniversary, outer space.
Is Alzheimer’s really type-3 diabetes?
PhysOrg reports on a Northwestern University research team that’s found evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to brain insulin: They have shown that a toxic protein found […]
Common flame redardant could be killing cats.
Science Daily reports on a veterinarian, Janice A. Dye, who might have found the cause of feline hyperthyroidism, an epidemic that’s been afflicting cats for […]
I don’t *feel* sexy….
A study from the University of Guelph finds that men often feel “coerced” into sex because we’re subject to the myth of the massive libido. […]