Icy expedition hopes to find Shackleton’s Endurance.
LiveScience looks to Antarctica, where a new expedition hopes to find Endurance, the ship which carried polar explorer Ernest Shackleton to the frozen south before […]
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
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Science Art: Alvarezsaurus calvoi, Reconstruction, by Karkemish.
A cute little dinosaur, about the size of greyhound and just as much built for speed. Which is strange, because on the other end – […]
Dinosaurs were already in decline before the asteroid.
Britain’s University of Bristol has looked at a few million years of evidence and found that it points to a grim fact about the dinosaurs. […]
People get more done working a four-day week.
An Icelandic thinktank, Alda, has published a report on two multiyear studies that indicate it really is better to work smarter, not harder – or […]
Magic mushrooms make lasting changes to the brain (and that’s a good thing).
Technology Networks reports on new Yale University research that apparently explains why psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, has a long-lasting antidepressant effect. The […]
Social media a threat to humanity, warn biologists, ecologists, and other unlikely experts.
Recode echoes a warning published in PNAS and signed by 17 researchers in fields as disparate as climate science, biology, and philosophy. They’re convinced that […]
Science Art: Spectacled Caiman and a False Coral Snake by Dorothea Maria Graff
An illustration of two reptiles, from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium II. These two creatures were painted sometime in the first decade of the 1700s by German […]
Using cows to end plastic pollution.
Inverse considers the environmental power of the cow, whose immense domestic population increases greenhouse gases (pardon me), but could also, new research proposes, be harnessed […]
Dragon man? Or Denisovan?
New Scientist looks at a possible new addition to the human family tree, an early human skull found in Harbin, China, and tentatively named Homo […]
Virtual reality messes with time.
Science Daily shares UC Santa Cruz research into the strange psychological effects of virtual reality, which literally lets your brain lose track of time in […]
Science Art: Thumbless Bat, 1857
This bat is probably misnamed, since its wings are hands and it has a digit in those wings it would recognize as a thumb, just […]
Why haven’t we found aliens? Maybe because the most common star type is lousy at sustaining life.
Inverse looks at a potential answer to the puzzle of why, in a universe filled with so many stars, we haven’t found any evidence of […]
SONG: Dream Agency
SONG: “Dream Agency”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science, 11 June 21, “Are advertisers coming for your dreams?,” as used in the post “Advertising in your dreams.” […]
Satellite trains face a legal challenge.
Scientific American is looking up at the night sky and wondering if some new legal cases will keep the stars from being blotted out by […]
Science Art: ITER 3D plasma equilibrium with ripple contours (4071616631)
This image, from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, shows a fusion reaction contained by a force field. The magnetic fields force the plasma – the […]