It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreThis is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreStarfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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1 Arm
2…
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”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreThis is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreClick for larger version Read more on Scottish traveler Constance Gordon-Cumming and her experiences with the unique geothermal phenomena of Yellowstone (pdf file) – as […]
New Scientist reports on a new way to propel nanomachines – using wiggly little germs as propulsion (or models for propulsion) because they’re kinky: The […]
Snakes, as we know too well, come in two varieties: the venomous kind, which stick you full of poison, and the constricting kind, which smother […]
Science Daily reports on astronomers making an atypically cute discovery. The Hubble Space Telescope has isolated nine new galaxies – the smallest galaxies ever observed: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dark energy is the mysterious force that keeps the universe from imploding – or, some say, is pushing us all farther and farther apart. Other […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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