China Moon
Reuters reports that China is taking its next step into space with the Chang’e One lunar orbiter launch this week: The launch of the Chang’e […]
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 moreBiofuel from a bush.
Nature brings news of a potential fuel for tomorrow growing wild in Africa and India. It’s called jatropha, and it could possibly be ideal for […]
SONG: Something in the Air
SONG: “Something in the Air” (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Hello there. SOURCE: “Lap dancers ‘in heat’ are the ones to watch”, […]
Sputnik DIY
The BBC has published directions for building your own history-making satellite: In simple terms, the Sputnik satellite was a metal sphere almost 2ft (61cm) in […]
Science Art: Opportunity on Meridiani Planum, 8 May 2005
The dusty hematite plains of Mars, as seen by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. This is, more or less, the place where Opportunity found evidence […]
The Ares V
Behold the mighty propaganda of a mighty space agency! NASA’s (computer generated) video of the very big (notional) Ares V rocket, launching a Very Large […]
Asteroid-Zapping Space Mirrors
We’re all worried about the sudden destruction of planet Earth and every living thing upon it by a sudden, cataclysmic collision with a hurtling mass […]
Maps of Cosmic Bliss.
You might remember reading, a few years ago, about some controversial claims made by Dr. Michael Persinger, who was researching how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation […]
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 […]
Stick *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 […]