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.)
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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 moreScience News has disheartening news for would-be explorers or lovers of virgin wilderness. The latest survey has found that no more than 3 percent of Earth’s land remains untouched… Read the rest “Humans have touched 97% of the Earth’s land.”
Science magazine celebrates a new natural way to replace the artificial dyes that make candy, soda and ice cream blue – by stabilizing the pigments found inside red cabbage:
… Read the rest “Red cabbage could soon turn your food blue (and green and purple) – naturally.”The food
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This is a colorful map (literally called a mosaic!) of the area where Perseverance landed, only from a little higher up. You can see the pink semicircle of the crater, and… Read the rest “Science Art: Geologic Map of Jezero Crater and the Nili Planum Region, Mars (Scientific Investigations Map 3464), by Vivian Sun and Kathryn Stack.”
Scientific American predicts a lively summer 2021, with the noisy emergence of Brood X – three species of 17-year cicadas – filling the air with noise and with well-fed young… Read the rest “Brood X – the cicada boom we expect this summer – will boost birds. Temporarily….”
New Scientist reveals the cost of building a brain from scratch has just gone way, WAY down:
… Read the rest “We can grow brain tissue in a $5 microchip. (And it’s reusable.)”The device, dubbed a “microfluidic bioreactor”, is a 4-by-6-centimetre chip that includes small
Science News celebrates a discovery that may save the lives of hundreds of eagles, ducks, and other birds living on or near lakes in the southeastern United States every year. They’ve… Read the rest “After 20 years, they found the weird toxin that’s been killing eagles.”
This is an anatomical drawing of the blood vessels around the heart, but it’s odd to me how much it looks like a simple drawing of a heart, a Valentines heart, with wings.… Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram to Show the Destination of the Arterial Arches in Man and Mammals. (Modified from Rathke. )”
Translational Psychiatry has some research that should be making a bigger splash. It indicates that feeding kids more sugar affects the development of their brains and their ability to… Read the rest “Sugar – as in sweet sodas – disrupts kids’ brain development.”
Eurekalert introduces the next generation of living robots. Tufts University biologists and computer scientists have created a second generation of tiny, biological machines they’re… Read the rest ““Xenobots” are tiny robots made from living cells – self-healing swarms that can form bodies… and memories.”
The New York Times examines the Shigir Idol, a wooden statue from the Ural Mountains that defied decay to become the oldest known work of ritual art:
… Read the rest “A 12,500-year-old statue is rewriting history. Or prehistory.”Dug out of a peat bog by gold miners in 1890,
From 1915 to 1922, this was the symbol of electric luxury – or at least a hybrid-electric luxury car. The Owen Magnetic label was a celebrated icon of the finer things, and the electric… Read the rest “Science Art: Owen Magnetic Radiator Emblem”
Science News shares a nightmare scenario from the ocean. The lights are low, there’s slow music playing, and look, there’s someone sexy over by the bar who doesn’t seem… Read the rest “Cone snails trick their prey into thinking it’s time to get it on. Then they eat ’em.”
Outside takes a hard, scientific look at our pandemic year (and our softening middle sections) using a measure called “VO2,” which is a way of tracking how aerobically fit … Read the rest “The key to staying fit when you’re less active is maintaining your intensity.”
Scientific American broadcasts a study (by David Rand and Gordon Pennycook, published in Nature) that looked at why misinformation spreads online, and found that it isn’t because… Read the rest “Fake news is a symptom… of fast scrolling social media. (Not wishes, partisan thinking, or anything else.)”
SONG: “Welcome to the Landing”
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SOURCE: Based on NASA, 5 Mar 2021, Welcome to ‘Octavia E. Butler Landing'”, as used in the Science Art post “Welcome… Read the rest “SONG: Welcome to the Landing”
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