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 moreI sometimes work the polls during an election and Tuesday was the 23rd, and I hadn’t finished a song by the 22nd. I’ve nearly got a penitential cover for the last missed deadline,… Read the rest “No song today (or two days ago)”
This is an illustration of a sea creature that, at the time, was (not exactly) new to science. It was new to British science when C. Spence Bate wrote about it in “On a new genus and several… Read the rest “Science Art: Bellia arenaria, from The Annals and magazine of natural history, Series 2, Vol. 7, #37, 1850.”
BBC is waiting patiently for Google co-founder Sergey Brin to create another world-changing revolution. They’re hanging out in an enormous hangar, the Goodyear Airdock in Akron,… Read the rest “Airship hangar awaits new zeppelin revolution.”
Scientific American introduces us to the bees of the sea, newly observed tiny crustaceans that pollinate seaweed like bees do flowers on land:
… Read the rest “Bees of the sea: crustacean pollinators”For the red seaweed Gracilaria gracilis,
Advertisements from the 1800s are usually visually striking, but this one is really something else – from the loopy lettering to the drama of the scene depicted in fields of shadow… Read the rest “Science Art: Woodhouse & Rawson Electrical Lighting & Apparatus ad, 1890”
Science News looks at the recent breakthroughs in planetary research using an often-overlooked kind of vehicle, a lighter-than-air balloon, as a research platform in alien skies:
… Read the rest “Exploring alien planets (and Earth) by balloon”“Venus
We in the Guild are not quite ready to break out the chilled sparkling cider and start dialing random numbers to celebrate… but Scientific American has us cautiously optimistic about… Read the rest “Maybe we’ll be able to answer our phones again after all. A cybersecurity expert is hopeful.”
Maybe you saw this image on Twitter with a blurb like:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil…, Etienne Klein, 2022.”Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil, située à 4,2 année-lumière de nous.
Elle a été prise par le JWST.
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Maybe a half-step beyond “I know it when I see it.” PC Gamer repeats reports of some strange technological applications allegedly being tested in China, in the form of a helmet… Read the rest “Mind-reading helmet used to detect porn in China.”
Science News is talking about a new “cellular life support” system that could change the way we do organ transplants by keeping organs alive in a body that has died:
… Read the rest “Transplant breakthrough: A system for keeping the organs alive in a pig that has died.”In earlier
PhysOrg looks at the remains of what UT Austin researchers have determined was a 37,000-year-old mammoth hunt in New Mexico, a place where scientists didn’t think humans existed… Read the rest “Mammoth hunt pushes first North American settlers back by a few millennia.”
The sea cucumber doesn’t look like much until you really look at it. They’re complicated little creatures. They have complicated little parts. In this case, they are labeled… Read the rest “Science Art: Holothuria tubulosa (Sjogurka stor ugglan, a sea cucumber) from Nordisk Familjebok, 1919.”
Rice University robotics engineers are playing with dead things – spiders, to be precise – and say they’ve come up with a breakthrough in precision picker-uppers by… Read the rest ““Necrobotic” spiders grab things more precisely than machine fingers.”
Reuters reports from Senegal on a new anti-erosion project that uses dirt-cheap, pollution-free materials to defend an island from Atlantic swells that threaten to wash the land away… Read the rest “Saving the beach with some stick-and-palm-frond engineering.”
Progesterone is a hormone released by ovaries. It’s made from cholesterol, which might seem odd. It’s a key component in birth-control pills and in hormone replacement therapy… Read the rest “Science Art: 20alpha-Dihydroprogesterone 3D spacefill, by Jynto, 2011.”
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