Science Art: Figure 22 – The Universal Switch
from The Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph, 1881.
Science 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 moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreScience Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreGimme 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: […]
The 62-mile-high club
Discover raises a slippery space question… as if NASA didn’t have enough scandal to deal with lately: When missions lasted no more than a few […]
Science Art: Chaetopoda by Ernst Haeckel
Chaetopoda by Ernst Haeckel. More incredible illustrations by him here.
My Mechanical Mom
From New Scientist comes news of the womb-on-a-chip: Fujii’s team has created a “lab on a chip” that is 2 millimetres across and 0.5 millimetres […]
Maybe “overlords” isn’t an exaggeration
New Scientist reports that predatory jumbo squid have returned to California’s coast… and may be there to stay: Ferocious, pack-feeding jumbo squid have invaded waters […]
The Amygdaloids
From Salon comes assurance that we are not alone: All right, the occasion wasn’t a concert but a graduation ceremony for 10,000 students in the […]
Pleasure and placebo
Nature plumbs the depths of one of the most mysterious processes in medicine. Researchers have found that the placebo effect – when “fake” medicine creates […]
The Noble Bonobo
The New Yorker, of all publications, has a fascinating Ian Parker article on the natural history of the bonobo – the sexy primate that’s supposed […]
Ice Volcanoes of Charon!
Nature brings new observations of Ice Volcanoes in Outer Space. Cook speculates that liquid water deep within Charon’s core is mixed with ammonia, which acts […]
SONG: A World Without Us.
SONG: “A World Without Us” (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. I’m the guy who put this questionable site up on the internet […]