Bacteria-killing copper fights superbug spread
Australia’s RMIT University is excited by the prospects of a surface that kills bacteria on its own, without any antiseptics being applied – a new […]
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…
Read moreJet biofuel could change things.
Scientific American explores a frontier of carbon-neutral industry – a way to make airplanes and helicopters fly without so many greenhouse gases in their exhaust: […]
Science Art: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 Mission Patch, by Alexandra Lindgren
A dragonfly in space. Luck, and transformation. This is the symbol for a joint NASA/ESA mission to the ISS, with Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and […]
Using good scotch to make better electronics
Not by drinking it! Discover reveals how watching The Glenlivet whisky evaporates – and leaves an almost uniform stain, unlike splotchier drinks like coffee or […]
Great jumping pterosaurs!
EurekAlert! shares the discovery that the world’s largest-ever flying creature, Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur with a 40-foot wingspan, managed to take to the skies despite its […]
Grape seed extract extends mice lifespans (and health) by 9 percent.
New Scientist reports on a Nature Metabolism study that found a chemical found in grape seeds helped bodies weed out weaker “senescent” cells, leading to […]
Science Art: Heart of the Turbine, by Lewis W. Hine, 1930.
A gelatin silver print of a man making a Westinghouse engine. I think this might be an AC generator, but I’m not sure – the […]
Living robots – “xenobots” – can reproduce themselves.
Science News is not panicking at all about the prospect of robots that can replicate copies of themselves that can then replicate copies of themselves: […]
Gene Roddenberry’s autograph in bacterial DNA sold as an NFT, displayed at Art Basel.
The Verge has one of the most potentially confusing science stories in a while. Gene Roddenberry’s estate, they report, has rendered the Star Trek creator’s […]
A particular body odor blocks aggression in men, but triggers aggression in women.
Science Advances sniffs out something peculiar in a “body volatile” (an actively smelly chemical) called hexadecanal, or HEX, which – based on a test using […]
Science Art: A Dragon Approaches, ESA/NASA, 2021
This is a view of the Dragon spaceship Endurance from an angle most of us never get to see – above the nose cone, which […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Léon Boëllmann – Prière à Notre-Dame by Lydia Kavina
An excerpt of a concert for theremin and organ, played at Moscow’s Bogolubov Library on September 19, 2021, with Lydia Kavina on the Thereminvox and […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Carolina Eyck, Theremin Lesson 01: Pitch Field and Setup | Playing the Major Scale
Even if you don’t have a theremin at home, watching the lesson is strangely fascinating. Bodies affecting the invisible fields.
SONG: Butterflies
SONG: “Butterflies”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Discover, 3 Nov 21, “How Citizen Scientists Uncovered the Strange Behavior of ‘Vampire’ Butterflies,” as used in the post “Indonesian […]
Science Art: Papierformate 01 (fcm), by Frank C. Müller
This is a picture of paper sizes as compared to a human being who will presumably be reading or writing on them. It also has […]