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: 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 moreScience 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 […]
Science Art: Exterior View of a Double Cylinder Colony
From NASA’s collection of 1970s space colony art. There are much larger versions available in their archive. —- Bonus link: the Living Room of the […]
Stowaway Genes
Science Daily reports on some very strange behavior found in bacterial DNA – one parasite’s entire genome is replicated by the host’s body. And, the […]
Star Trek medical scanner is GO!
Experts at Harborview Medical Center and the University of Washington are refining an ultrasound device that seals punctured lungs without invasive surgery, reports Science Daily. […]
When ORCHIDS ruled the Earth!
New Scientist confirms the fever-dreams of many a fanatic gardener with the discovery that mammals didn’t take over right after the death of the dinosaurs […]
Psychedelic Paintball
Wired‘s “Danger Room” reports on like, wow, man, that’s one *TRIPPY* gun: Paintballs laced with mind-altering drugs and drug-spraying robots sound like something for The […]
T. rex could have caught us.
New Scientist strikes fear into the hearts of time travelers everywhere with a report that T. rex could have caught humans. Easily. Which is kind […]
Science Art: Compact Muon Solenoid of the Large Hadron Collider
This is how CERN is hoping to find the Higgs Boson. At 40 feet long, it is the biggest superconducting solenoid ever made, costing $65 […]
You’ll put an eye out.
Behold the science of engineering. LEGO engineering.
Giant “living fossil” fish on the brink
National Geographic reports on another Chinese river-dweller struggling to survive – the giant sturgeon, also known as the “underwater panda”: Adult sturgeons, which can measure […]