This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreReally, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
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This is another way of doing a Cosmic Zoom, comparing the sizes of astronomical things. If you’ve wondered how many Earths could fit inside Arcturus, well, here’s one way to… Read the rest “Science Art: Comparison of planets and stars (2017 update), by Dave Jarvis and Jcpag2012.”
Science News brings home the bacon for humans needing kidney transplants, with news of a Chinese research team that has successfully grown a “humanized” kidney (an organ … Read the rest “Human(-ish) kidneys grown in pig embryos.”
Science News reports on a new method of exploring what happens to our brains when we sleep – by using self-trained lucid dreamers as guides behind the gates of Dreamland:
… Read the rest “Lucid dreamers reveal waking brains.”“The special
I thought this was a nautilus, but it might be a moon snail. It’s a mollusk of some kind, with a gracefully curved shell and a complex, fleshy body, all rendered as simply as possible … Read the rest “Science Art: From Notes on Cephalopods from Northern California, 1967.”
The British Antarctic Survey reports on one consequence of thinning sea ice after one of the warmest winters on record. Out of five known breeding colonies in the Belligshausen Sea, four… Read the rest “A lot fewer emperor penguins next year. “Catastrophic breeding failure.””
Science News reports on a system for “upcycling” plastic trash by converting the non-recycled waste destined for the landfill into surfactants, the chemicals that make … Read the rest “From plastic trash into sudsy cleansers.”
A satellite that is also a balloon, as inflated at NASA’s Langley Research Center in 1958.
I found this image gleaming in the NASA Image and Video Library.
SONG: “FAQs”. (available as .wav here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on Popular Science, 14 Aug 2023, “School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books,”… Read the rest “SONG: FAQs”
This is the cover of the 1972 March/April issue of Information Display, Vol 9 No 2, from archive.org.
Stories inside include ways to project different-sized letters on a cathode-ray screen,… Read the rest “Science Art: Information Display front cover, 1972”
Popular Science discusses a school board in Iowa using ChatGPT to itemize the books that should be removed from library shelves because they ‘contain a description or depiction … Read the rest “ChatGPT, the Fahrenheit 451 edition”
The Markup is making an offer to anyone with a Facebook account – even an inactive one. Previously, they mapped out how the Meta Pixel (formerly the Facebook Pixel) gathered people’s… Read the rest “Wanna watch the watchers?”
This is a tiny component in an amplifier, seen way up close.
If you want the specifics, from the Wikimedia Commons page where I found it:
… Read the rest “Science Art: 2N930 NPN silicon planar transistor, by Mister rf”45V, 0.03A 300mW 3-Pin TO-18
The 2N930 is designed for
The Guardian reports from Cyprus, where an antiviral medicine for human COVID-19 patients has proved effective against a deadly outbreak of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a disease… Read the rest “Human coronavirus meds cure deadly cat disease.”
Eurosurveillance reports on an ongoing epidemic that has seen a contagious strain of avian influenza, HPAI H5N1, jump from birds to mammals, where it’s spread from wild seagulls… Read the rest “There’s a bird flu epidemic in fur farms. (This is not great.)”
Baby pictures, from The American lobster; a study of its habits and development, a Bureau of Fisheries document that I found here, at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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