A robot will be rebuilding Pompeii from fragments
Scientific American reports on a project using autonomous robots to reassemble the smallest fragments of the ruins of Pompeii: Their project—dubbed RePAIR (Reconstructing the Past: […]
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 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 moreStudying lizard lungs to build replacement human lungs.
Princeton researchers are looking at the fast-growing lungs of ordinary, common lizards called brown anoles to find way to quickly create replacement lungs for humans […]
Pendants marketed as “Anti 5G” are actually radioactive.
Ars Technica takes us to the technological front of the culture war with a truly absurd story about “quantum pendants” that supposedly neutralize 5G radio […]
Science Art: Comet observations from Libra astronomica, y philosophica by Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, 1690.
I can’t make out exactly what this is illustrating. My Spanish is barely good enough to tell, in section 309 of Carlos de Siguenza y […]
SONG: Fast Blue Optical Transients
SONG: “Fast Blue Optical Transients”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News 13 Dec 2021, “The cosmic ‘Cow’ may have produced a new neutron star or black […]
“Exquisitely preserved” dinosaur embryo discovered inside fossilized egg in museum storeroom.
New Scientist reports on the best-preserved dinosaur embryo ever discovered, inside a 70 million-year-old egg that had been stored in Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum […]
SONG: Deeper Than Love (a penitential Colleen Green cover)
SONG: “Deeper Than Love (a penitential Colleen Green cover)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: There is no scientific source. This is a penitential cover of this Colleen […]
Science Art: Auiomeris io, Dryocampa rubicunda by Edna Libby Beutenmüller, 1918.
Two moths, pictured in The Field Book of Insects by Frank E. Lutz. A. io, with the big roundels on its wings, is better known […]
Bright and really heavy: What “The Cow” caused in deep space.
Science News shares an explanation for an intense puzzle that’s had astronomers searching for solutions since June 2018. Now, astrophysicist DJ Pasham and his team […]
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 […]
Jet 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 […]