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…
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As most folks know, today’s English bulldog is an animal that has been, as they say, “overbred.” They have beautiful temperaments as a rule, and can barely breathe, … Read the rest “Science Art: Leavitt Bulldog body diagram, 2013”
Discover pulls back the curtain on an archaeological debate over some pits in the ground in Israel – holes that show traces of 13,000-year-old fermentation that was brewed up next… Read the rest “Was it beer, or was it bread? Made for the living or made for the dead?”
Science magazine reveals the secret to cellular survival for a chunk of human brain that didn’t rot for more than two and half millennia after its owner was beheaded:
… Read the rest “A piece of human brain survived 2,600 years.”Using several
NSF’s NOIRLab looks at a body that the Gemini Observatory spotted in 2018 and that astronomers working at Hawaii’s Subaru telescope nicknamed Farfarout. Now, they’ve… Read the rest “Farfarout is as far, far out as you can get (and still be in the Solar System).”
Next week, on February 18, this little chopper will touch down on Mars with the Perseverance rover. Then, a little while later, it’ll take off for a few seconds. Then a few more. Then… Read the rest “Science Art: Ingenuity Mars helicopter, by NASA/JPL-Caltech”
Scientific American wonders whether we’ve just spotted a new planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, our sun’s nearest neighbor. If it’s there, that potential planet is … Read the rest “Alpha Centauri’s possible planet: a warm Neptune, a very large Earth.”
Science News shows off a critter from Madagascar that is very small, yet enormously cute. You have to see this. Click the link to meet Brookesia nana, a newly discovered chameleon that might… Read the rest “Just discovered: world’s tiniest reptile.”
Popular Science shares a postcard of Mars taken up-close and personal by China’s Tianwen-1 probe as it enters orbit around the Red Planet:
… Read the rest “China’s Mars probe is sending back pictures.”The five-ton craft carries an orbiter,
Pulleys and rope, arranged to make lifting heavy weights easier. I’ve been messing around with boats lately, lowering a 30-foot mast with a lot of help. Pulleys … Read the rest “Science Art: Tackles, 1905.”
Discover reports on a dedicated little space probe that’s still writing home to NASA (using 11 vital instruments) after four decades of hurtling away from home:
… Read the rest “Voyager 1 has kept in touch for 40 years.”6. Low-Energy Charged
MIT News looks at the new science of tissue engineering, taking lab-grown cells and training them to grow objects to order:
… Read the rest ““Just grow a table.””It takes a lot to make a wooden table. Grow a tree, cut it down, transport
NPR introduces us to a 42-foot-long stranger, the Rice’s whale. The mysterious species is large in size, but small in number, hanging out in off the Redneck Riviera and not bothering… Read the rest “There’s a new whale in the Gulf of Mexico. A whole new species, in fact.”
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This was how people catalogued birdsongs in the 1930s, with a giant acoustic dish. And then they transferred them to phonograph discs, so everyone could listen.… Read the rest “Science Art: Hunting with a Sound Camera, by William Vogt, 1933.”
Scientific American has looked at the fossil record and found it wanting. Instead of there being a regular pattern of mass extinctions (like the death of the dinosaurs) followed by the rise… Read the rest “Maybe mass extinctions *don’t* lead to a great flowering of new life forms.”
Reuters reveals a new technique to strengthen ordinary concrete by imitating the criss-cross pattern of lobster shells:
… Read the rest “Lobster-shell patterns make concrete stronger.”Reinforced with steel fibres, the concrete becomes more durable
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