The knee bone’s connected to the… pancreas bone?
PhysOrg blows our minds with the discovery that our skeletons are actually endocrine glands: Karsenty and his colleagues had previously shown that leptin, a hormone […]
SONG: 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: 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 moreScience Art: Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae novis…
Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae novis… is a 1783 edition of a book of anatomical poses written by Bartolomeo Eustachi and illustrated by Giulio de’Musi in […]
Perseids + New Moon =
Go outside tomorrow night and look up. Look up! Keep looking up! Trust us on this one.
Ancient germs reborn
From New Scientist comes a fun story about prehistoric bacteria being brought back to life by meddling scientists: Kay Bidle of Rutgers University in New […]
I Want My UFO
Moller International, a company that’s been trying to market flying cars for a long while now, has finally made its breakthrough, reports LiveScience: [I]t looks […]
Science Tattoos
Some researchers wear their subjects of study underneath their sleeves. I quite like the octopus….
Nerdcore soldiers on
Via the MC Hawking blog comes word of the irresistible, meteoric rise of nerdcore, as declared by the New York Times last Sunday: Many nerdcore […]
Sleep Eaters
Discover lifts the veil on unusual nocturnal behavior – the phenomenon of sleep eating: Except for the trail of crumbs and gooey messes that confront […]
JokeBot UNBOUND
New Scientist on the dawn of the Humortron 3000: Now Julia Taylor and Lawrence Mazlack of the University of Cincinnati in Ohio have built a […]
Science Art: Figure 22 – The Universal Switch
from The Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph, 1881.
Gimme more sugar! MORE!
Kevin Beck at ScienceBlogs shares some news published on PLoS by researchers from France’s University of Bordeaux, who found that sweet things can be more […]
Trojan chromosomes: Sex-change weaponry
Nature reports on the latest way we’re fighting invasive exotic species… by changing the girls into boys: In 2004, alerted to Florida’s problems with invasive […]
Robo-Dog Soldiers
Well, we knew about robot dogs and we’ve heard about robot soldiers – but unless you were paying close attention, you might not have heard […]
Perfectly cromulent for publication
SciAm’s news blog reveals the Simpsonization of cosmology: I emailed Kachru, one of the most prominent younger researchers working on string theory, to get the […]
The future is now.
Via Wired’s Danger Room comes news from the US Army’s Future Combat Systems. They need a new name because we’re already living in the future: […]