Neanderthals died out from something like loneliness
Or maybe “loner-ism.” IFL Science reports on new research showing that what might have led to the demise of Neanderthals as a distinct kind of […]
Science 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 moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreA Florida high schooler got anxiety meds from tarantua venom.
Relax, the spider is here to soothe you. Tampa Bay Times reported on Daniel Park, who won a state-wide science competition by using his computers […]
Science Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton
This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wikipedia, which also, helpfully, says a […]
Brazilian villages make a good living protecting a giant fish
Science reports on a conservation project that’s also helping some of the poorest people on the planet — villagers along the Juruá River, a western […]
The Earliest Emperor Butterfly
IFL Science reports on the (beautiful) discovery of a (well-preserved) butterfly from 34 million years ago … a specimen with visible, identifiable wing patterns and […]
Science Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically described and illustrated, by Phillip T. Sandhurst, which you can […]
Trees grow six times taller in strange Amazonian soil.
BBC’s Science Focus is digging in the dirt to get inside the mystery of “dark earth,” which seems to make the Amazon as fertile as […]
Science Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.
This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorologist, and a Theosophist mystic who died […]
SONG: We Ate Each Other’s Wings
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “These roaches form exclusive long-term relationships after eating each other’s wings”, […]
Science Art: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1. “CNSA” is the China National Space […]
The sacred stone axes hunted cosmic game
IFL Science looks back in time, studying handaxes made by Homo erectus from unlikely materials like crystals or fossils … which seem likely to have […]
Diagnosed by your contact lens
Science Adviser looks at medical advice given by an optometrist on a contact lens: When your optometrist asks you to look through a machine at […]
The Carroll Crater
Mashable is one of the outlets that reported on the naming of a newly identified lunar crater by the astronauts of the Artemis mission… one […]
Science Art: Earth-moon Relationship MSC, HOUSTON, TX
This is a line drawing of the Apollo mission’s lunar module reaching the Moon, staying a while, and then coming back home. It’s a few […]
France ditches Windows for Linux
Not the people; the country. Techcrunch reports on a European government switching operating systems to avoid relying on U.S. tech: Linux is an open source […]