Science Art: Irisosaurus yimenensis life restoration, by Ang Li.
Irisosaurus yimenensis is a dinosaur discovered in 2020 in Yunnan, China, within the Fengjiahe Formation – a layer of sediment and fossils laid down in […]
SONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
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There’s radioactive material *everywhere*. Here’s who’s trying to clean up clinics and food processing plants..
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 […]
A 3,000-year-old skull surgery in Alabama
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 […]
FedEx is testing a drone with a 27-foot wingspan for “middle mile” delivery.
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 […]
Science Art: Culpeper’s Microscope, 1797.
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 […]
Spotting the farthest star: Earendel.
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 […]
Rural people have a better sense of direction.
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 […]
Science Art: CSIRO’s ASKAP telescope continues to detect new FRBs…, 2020
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 […]
SONG: Lost Aromas (A Rose)
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 […]
Big Dog is being outrun – by an emu-inspired BirdBot
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 […]
Science Art: Lysiopetalum Cavernarum, Etc., Emerton & Packard, del., 1888.
This is a collection of bits and pieces (including “male genital armature” in 1s and 1t) of Pseudotremia cavernarum, the cave millipede. Yes, the researchers […]
The earliest North Americans were hanging out hunting horses in the Yukon 24,000 years ago.
Hakai Magazine (via Smithsonian) shares some discoveries from the Bluefish Caves in the northern Yukon, where archaeologists have unearthed clues to a whole human society […]
On the extinction of smells, and the attempt to preserve an aroma.
Discover reports on the growing field of “scent researchers” who are attempting to bring back smells that have long since gone away, and to record […]
We discovered a new kind of tarantula. It lives inside bamboo.
Science News has unfortunate news for arachnophobes who like relaxing in bamboo furniture. For the first time in more than a century, a new species […]
Science Art: Yearly Potato Production, from Natural History Magazine, March 1947.
In 1947, Natural History Magazine took a deep dive into potatoes – where they came from and where they’re going … and growing. The story […]