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…
Read moreArs Technica celebrates an underwater discovery: the surprisingly well-preserved wreck of the schooner barge Ironton, which went down in 1898 after colliding with the Great Lakes freighter… Read the rest “Lake Huron reveals 19th-century shipwreck.”
“Screws at one single cut,” the ad boasts. This is an ad from the front of The Engineer’s Sketch-Book of Mechanical Movements, by Thomas W. Barber – full title:… Read the rest “Science Art: Britannia Co.’s Patent Screwing Machine, 1890.”
PNAS reports on some unanticipated consequences of solar farming – but things that banks of solar panels that are unexpectedly good, not bad:
… Read the rest “Solar panels increase crop yields, insulate reservoirs, and can help farmers.”To generate as much energy as a conventional
BBC reports on a mechanical elephant that is replacing a flesh-and-blood elephant that previously conducted rituals in a temple in Kerala, India:
… Read the rest “Kerala temple introduces a robot ritual elephant.”The initiative by authorities at Irinjadappilly
The journal Human Movement Science carries research from Swiss sports scientists who have used ballet dancers to figure out how it can be possible for a human being to keep spinning on one… Read the rest “How a ballerina spins, as a neurophysical phenomenon.”
It’s a wickle baby slipper lobster!
That color came from it being prepared on a slide so it could be examined under a microscope. The legs and antenna are all its own. Evibacus princeps… Read the rest “Science Art: Evibacus princeps, 2019”
Another penitential cover will be forthcoming. I’m a tired man.
DARPA reports on the Air Combat Evolution program’s newest breakthrough, which took a regular F-16 fighter jet, equipped it with an Artificial Intelligence program capable of … Read the rest “An AI fighter plane has taken off, engaged a simulated enemy and landed without a human pilot’s help.”
This is a painting of Mimodactylus libanensis soaring over what Nature (where it was first published) called “Afro-Arabia,” a continent that existed many millions of years… Read the rest “Science Art: Mimodactylus in life, 2019.”
EurekAlert shares a University of Queensland study that shows a turn to violence among courting whales along Australia’s eastern seaboard. Whales seeking mates are giving up courtship… Read the rest “Australian whales looking for mates have given up singing and taken up fighting.”
Ars Technica reports on a long-awaited milestone. After many not-quite-that-long missions, a NASA astronaut is on the way to finally spend more than a full year living in space:
… Read the rest “NASA astronaut finally ready to spend more than a year in space.”When Mark
A test apparatus, as used for the article “Modification of Force Feed Lubricators” in the 1960-05 edition of Lubrication Engineering. The idea was to study why the same oils… Read the rest “Science Art: Test Apparatus, 1960”
Ars Technica reports on the ongoing blotting out of the stars at night, with artificial light pollution doubling in the last 10 years alone. There are ways, however, to bring the stars back… Read the rest “We can get back to the night sky. But it will take work.”
Science News looks at a Viking burial site in England where animals were buried alongside humans, and finds that radioactive traces show these critters traveled to Great Britain aboard… Read the rest “Vikings brought animals to England, radioactive analysis shows.”
An image from NASA/JPL-Caltech depicting a capsule starting to slow down in the Martian atmosphere. All we see is the outer structure, which seems mostly to be made of metal. But inside…… Read the rest “Science Art: Deceleration of Mars Science Laboratory in Martian Atmosphere, 2011”
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