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 moreI’ll just copy the Science News headline here and say “Brain implants turn imagined handwriting into text on a screen“:
… Read the rest “Picture your hand writing a message, and this brain-implant computer will type it.”A 65-year-old man had two grids of tiny electrodes
The giant armadillo of Pleistocene-era Arizona, from David D. Gillette’s Smithsonian publication, Glyptodonts of North America, found on archive.org.
Based on their teeth and… Read the rest “Science Art: Schematic illustration of skeleton of Glyptotherium arizonae (modified for Glyptotherium after Burrmeister and Hoffstetter), 1981.”
Omaha digs deep for a story on how millennia-old feces has reintroduced us to some long-lost germs in the human gut biome – that might be able to help heal modern humans:
… Read the rest “Really old poop yields really new microbes – and new medical treatments.”Previous research
Bloomberg reports on a Biden-administration initiative to build a massive, $2.8 billion windmill installation off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard:
… Read the rest “The US is building a big wind farm.”“The whole industry has been
Happy Mother’s Day!
Wikimedia Commons user LadyofHats made this image of motherhood. And fatherhood, I suppose. Technically, this fertilization is happening in a sea urchin, … Read the rest “Science Art: Acrosome Reaction Diagram”
Reuters has a sweet story on honeybees that have been trained by Wim van der Poel at Wageningen University to expect a treat every time they smell a COVID-infected sample – so within… Read the rest “Bees trained to detect COVID can speed up testing.”
Scientific American looks at the work of ecologist Suzanne Simard, and her efforts to preserve “mother trees,” which have intelligence, memories, and even look out for their… Read the rest “On the memory of trees.”
Science Advances outlines a way to use a platinum-tungten-zirconium catalyst (“Pt/WO3/ZrO2” for short) along with a zeolite crystal to turn trash into, if not treasure,… Read the rest “Turning hard-to-recycle plastics into jet fuel, diesel, and gasoline.”
That’s the funniest lookin’ carrot I’ve ever seen. A real cuckoo-maria. In fact, that’s its name now – Cucumaria frondosa is the scientific name, and … Read the rest “Science Art: Holothuria Pentactes, Lin. – die Rippenblasse, from from Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (A Natural History of the Animal Kingdom).”
Science News chases the storm chasers who found some surprising air-purifying oxidant chemicals in the wake of major lightning strikes:
… Read the rest “Lighting cleans the air even more than we thought.”Researchers knew lightning produces nitric oxide,
Scientific American prepares for the launch of a new place in space – the core module of the CSS (China Space Station), which, after 29 years of planning, should be in orbit at the end… Read the rest “China ready to launch a big chunk of space station.”
Nature reports on experiments mapping out exactly how hungry people will feel over the next 24 hours – giving a hard number to what’s usually a vague sensation – by measuring… Read the rest “Blood-sugar test gives us the first way to quantify exactly how hungry you are.”
This is an image of nerves, the nerves of a dog, a new-born dog.
“Clarke’s column” is also called the posterior thoracic nucleus, a part of the spinal column. The main … Read the rest “Science Art: Transverse section through the region of Clarke’s column of the thoracic cord of a new-born dog, 1906”
The Scientist toasts the rediscovery of Coffea stenophylla, a relative of the C. arabica coffee plant our society runs on – that’s proved itself able to cope with some of the… Read the rest “Old coffee is coming back to save the business (and the species tastes great, too)”
This looks like a heraldic emblem to me, but it’s not. It’s also not merely an abstract diagram of circular forces, though that’s a little closer. It’s a schematic… Read the rest “Science Art: Scheme of quadrocopter impellent (X and H configuration), by Ulrich Heither”
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