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.)
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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 a Siemens star, a pattern used to calibrate optical equipment – to see how well the lens (or raster, or driver, or whatever) can see. Although actually, this graphic is not merely… Read the rest “Science Art: Power spectrum of Siemens star with 1024 line pairs per image height, by Bautsch, 2012.”
The Journal of Experimental Psychology defines something I think we’ve all had a feeling about – that the more you encounter a bad deed (or hear it described in, say, a televised… Read the rest “It feels less evil the second time around.”
Popular Science discusses what could be IBM’s quantum breakthrough – a quantum processor named “Kookaburra” that’s set to start computing in 2025:… Read the rest “Laugh, quantum computer, laugh… in IBM’s gum tree.”
This is some laboratory glassware used in Pasteur’s experiments, as illustrated in Les merveilles de l’industrie, an 1873 science book that has a marvelous gallery on Flickr… Read the rest “Science Art: “Ballon à col sinueux employé par M. Pasteur dans ses expériences contre la génération spontanée”, 1873.”
Science magazine reveals the first known case of a mammal mimicking insect noises, in a study that found greater mouse-eared bats imitate stinging insect buzzes to keep owls and other potential… Read the rest “Bats mimic buzzing hornets to scare predators away.”
Science News examines the science of the Top 40, with a survey of the charts that found what goes into that first, breakthrough hit is the opposite of what makes for an ongoing musical career… Read the rest “Pop-song paradox: What it takes to be a one-hit wonder is the opposite of what it takes to have a long career.”
This is… well, let me just quote the preface:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Cover, Introduction to Transistors & Transistor Projects, 1972.”This book is intended to show the electronics experimenter how the transistor was developed, how it is manufactured, and how it works.
CNN is covering the Skydweller, a plane powered by more than 17,000 solar panels, enabling it to stay aloft for month, doing the same work a satellite would do at a slightly lower altitude … Read the rest “Solar plane can do the job of a satellite without going into space.”
Science News looks at interleukin-13, an immune-system protein linked with allergies that make it hard to breathe – and make it hard for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to gain a foothold in … Read the rest “Got allergic asthma? Congratulations – you’ve also got some COVID-19 protection.”
These are beetles, mostly from southern Asia except the last one, Dexoris, which is from Sierra Leone. These specific beetles became British (perhaps posthumously) and were recorded … Read the rest “Science Art: Lycidae, Plate XVIII, Edw. A. Smith, 1879”
The-Scientist explores a strange interaction that helped eliminate smallpox without us even noticing. The vaccine that helped eliminate this killer got an extra boost from local skin… Read the rest “Smallpox vaccine got a boost … from skin bacteria.”
Science News looks at the world through the eyes of Dalmanitina socialis, a creature extinct for 400 million years who could focus on objects as close as 3 centimeters and as far as 2 kilometers… Read the rest “Camera lens based on a trilobite’s eye keeps objects in focus near and far.”
This was one of the attractions in the Machinery Hall of the Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876, a blast engine made by the I.P. Morris Company. Why a blast engine? To make Bessemer steel.… Read the rest “Science Art: Blast Engine, 1870s.”
SONG: “Like Lava Made of Water”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Science 17 Apr 2022, “Icy Volcanos on Pluto Could Be Sign of Underground Ocean,” as used in the post Pluto… Read the rest “SONG: Like Lava Made of Water”
National Geographic takes a broad look at neurological studies done at labs around the world that show that even the “mild flu” version of COVID-19 can cause brain fog, memory… Read the rest “Brain scans show even a mild covid case can shrink your brain – as many of us are finding out.”
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