Nine tiny galaxies.
Science Daily reports on astronomers making an atypically cute discovery. The Hubble Space Telescope has isolated nine new galaxies – the smallest galaxies ever observed: […]
SONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
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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 moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreHow do you say “moon” in Japanese?
Because they’re going there, reports Nature. Not in person (not right away, anyway), but with the launch of a new satellite system: The Japan Aerospace […]
Honey keeps your brain young.
That’s what those feisty young upstarts New Scientist are trying to tell us – that replacing sugar with honey will keep us bright, sharp and […]
Science Art: Albinus & Wandelaar
Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani by anatomist Bernard Albinus and illustrator Jan Wandelaar, 1747. Apparently, the rhino’s name was Clara, and she was quite […]
Joint Dark Energy Probe: Why are we falling apart?
Dark energy is the mysterious force that keeps the universe from imploding – or, some say, is pushing us all farther and farther apart. Other […]
Dying breeds.
We’re in the middle of massive extinction event, warns SciDevNet – not of species, but of breeds. As in livestock. And that can be bigger […]
Xenomorphs on the reef.
Oh, man. Nature gives us another reason to be terrified of moray eels. They’re just like the alien that stalked Sigourney Weaver: Like the fearsome […]
Creatures called “cybrids.”
Nature reveals that British researchers have been given the green light to create embryos from human DNA implanted in animal cells. Just don’t call them […]
Spaceport: Ready for takeoff soon, please.
New Scientist reveals the new design for Spaceport America, to be built in the New Mexico desert in 2008: The designers of Spaceport America opted […]
The Hygiene Hypothesis
We’re too clean, reports Science Daily. We need to get dirty to stay healthy: Families with three or more children – a more common family […]
Science Art: Planisphæri cœleste, by Frederik de Wit, 17th century
Click for larger version Frederik de Wit was a Dutch cartographer of the 1600s, a time when the Dutch were using maps like never before. […]
There’s a hole…
By now, you’ve probably heard about the gaping hole in the middle of everything, as covered by Scientific American (from Reuters): The team at the […]
Ice-9 saves lives!
Or, well, something like Ice-9. At least, so says New Scientist: Layers of ice of few nanometres thick can remain frozen at human body temperature […]
No more batteries.
Check out what Scientific American has to say about these gizmos called “ultracapacitors” that could soon fuel cars without gasoline… and without chemical batteries: Ultracapacitors […]
Cute: Apple ][ and the first computer viruses.
PhysOrg has a sweet little story about the jokey birth of what could be the earliest computer virus: He developed what is now known as […]