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 moreIFL Science (among other outlets) is reporting on studies published in Nature and the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports that looked at the mummified remains of children sacrificed… Read the rest “Inca sacrifices were given ayahuasca in their final hours.”
CW: Ends in despair.
French aviation pioneer Alphonse Pénaud designed this, with engineer Paul Gauchot, as an aeroplane that could land on water or on land. That was quite an ambition in … Read the rest “Science Art: Pénaud’s first sketch of an amphibian aeroplane, 1873”
Science magazine reports on new conclusions from the New Horizon spacecraft’s 2015 observations of ice volcanoes on Pluto, and what they could mean for the interior structure of… Read the rest “Pluto might have an underground ocean, if those icy volcanoes are any indication.”
Science News describes one of the odd issues facing our robotic exploration of the Red Planet, because sound waves travel differently in the thin atmosphere of Mars. Not just a different… Read the rest “There’s more than one speed of sound on Mars.”
Nature reveals one of the weird truths about the way we do science. Publishing research is sometimes referred to as “the academic conversation,” and analysis proves that … Read the rest “Want your research cited by other scientists? Give your paper a funny title.”
Irisosaurus yimenensis is a dinosaur discovered in 2020 in Yunnan, China, within the Fengjiahe Formation – a layer of sediment and fossils laid down in the Early Jurassic period,… Read the rest “Science Art: Irisosaurus yimenensis life restoration, by Ang Li.”
Scientific American introduces us to the RadSecure program, which aims to keep the radioactive isotopes in use all around us from getting too close for comfort (or good health):
… Read the rest “There’s radioactive material *everywhere*. Here’s who’s trying to clean up clinics and food processing plants..”Radioactive
Science News checks out the evidence for the oldest known skull surgery in America, a forehead-opening operation that took place between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago in what is now known as … Read the rest “A 3,000-year-old skull surgery in Alabama”
Popular Science explains the 9.000-pound flying robots made by the drone company Elroy Air aren’t meant to get your packages to your door. They’re just flying them most of … Read the rest “FedEx is testing a drone with a 27-foot wingspan for “middle mile” delivery.”
This is a single microscope from a page of microscopes in the 1797 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which I found on archive.org.
This particular one is a compound microscope. It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Culpeper’s Microscope, 1797.”
Science Daily shares news from NASA/Goddard that Hubble, the space telescope supposedly surpassed by the new Webb telescope, has now identified the farthest star (and thus longest-ago… Read the rest “Spotting the farthest star: Earendel.”
Lancaster University researchers have studied folks who grew up in the country, in the suburbs, and in the city by analyzing their movements in a specially designed video game, and found… Read the rest “Rural people have a better sense of direction.”
This is an image of a thing that happens that is both very fast and also invisible. The colorful blocks are representations of “fast radio bursts” (FRBs) which are sudden surges… Read the rest “Science Art: CSIRO’s ASKAP telescope continues to detect new FRBs…, 2020”
SONG: “Lost Aromas (A Rose)”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Discover 25 Jan 2022, “Smells Are Going Extinct, So Researchers Are Working to Preserve Them,” as used … Read the rest “SONG: Lost Aromas (A Rose)”
Science reports on a Human Frontier Science Program project that is creating a more stable, more self-controlled walking robot by basing its motion on emus rather than using the “active… Read the rest “Big Dog is being outrun – by an emu-inspired BirdBot”
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