Time. And an OTHER time.
Feeling pressed for time? A New Scientist interview reported by the Telegraph posits that we have more time than you think: Time is no longer […]
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 moreStick *salps* in your pipe and smoke it!
So James Lovelock, he of the Gaia Hypothesis, has come up with a novel way to beat global warming – using little jellyfish-like creatures called […]
Science Art: Astronaut Bruce McCandless on the Canadarm, February 1984
See more space walks (or, erm, space “surfs”) at NASA (of course), at a site belonging to someone named “Texas Jim” (showing Endeavour over Hurricane […]
Smart Helmet for Smarter Football
Rugby players will have one more reason to sneer at American football players, if ABC News is right about this new football helmet. It doesn’t […]
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 […]
Sensitive 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 […]