Private space company eyes mission to seek life on Venus.
Vice reports on Rocket Lab’s plans to use privately funded spacecraft, supported by a research team at MIT, to explore the famously inhospitable surface of […]
Science 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 moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreWebb telescope spots CO2 in an exoplanet’s atmosphere.
Science News has a report from space that’s not as cool as finding an oxygen-rich alien planet, but almost. It’s a planet that the James […]
Science Art: Page 219 from The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances and details…, 1890
This is a page of assorted parts – gizmos, “contrivances,” what-have-yous – for doing things in machines. It’s from a catalog of such bits and […]
Reptiles evolve to conquer climate change, again and again (when they didn’t all die).
Jerusalem Post covers research by Harvard University, University of Alberta, and North Carolina Museum of Natural History that reveals the long history of reptiles, who […]
There are two waters, once it gets cold.
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have found that ordinary water becomes ice when it gets really cold (which we all already knew) but also […]
No song today (or two days ago)
I 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 […]
Science Art: Bellia arenaria, from The Annals and magazine of natural history, Series 2, Vol. 7, #37, 1850.
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 […]
Airship hangar awaits new zeppelin revolution.
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 […]
Bees of the sea: crustacean pollinators
Scientific American introduces us to the bees of the sea, newly observed tiny crustaceans that pollinate seaweed like bees do flowers on land: For the […]
Science Art: Woodhouse & Rawson Electrical Lighting & Apparatus ad, 1890
Advertisements from the 1800s are usually visually striking, but this one is really something else – from the loopy lettering to the drama of the […]
Exploring alien planets (and Earth) by balloon
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 […]
Maybe we’ll be able to answer our phones again after all. A cybersecurity expert is hopeful.
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 […]
Science Art: Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil…, Etienne Klein, 2022.
Maybe you saw this image on Twitter with a blurb like: Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil, située à 4,2 […]
Mind-reading helmet used to detect porn in China.
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, […]
Transplant breakthrough: A system for keeping the organs alive in a pig that has died.
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 […]