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 moreArchaeology wonders about the original purpose of a pair of snub-nosed figurines excavated from a Bronze Age hillfort in northern Europe. Were they religious relics or children’s… Read the rest “Puzzling pair of Polish pigs from 3,500 years ago.”
Science magazine takes us inside the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) Upgrade, an experimental fusion reactor which has been switched on after a 7-year build and revamping. Ultimately,… Read the rest “The UK has powered up an unusual fusion reactor.”
This is a machine for cutting through rock in a swamp. Or really, in a very broad, very shallow river – which is what the Everglades really is. The rock in question would… Read the rest “Science Art: Close-up view of a rock cutter in the Everglades Drainage District, c. 1920”
Science explains the odd irony behind the fact that the cutest birds – the ones gazing out at you with those big eyes – are also the ones in the most imminent danger from chopping… Read the rest “Birdies with the big, cute eyes are in the most danger from deforestation.”
Science News celebrates a long-shot success in space, as NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe is steered close enough to the asteroid Bennu to grab a piece to take home:
… Read the rest “Our spaceship just grabbed a piece of asteroid.”“The spacecraft did everything
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A scene from the Devonian period, before dinosaurs ever emerged to rumble the earth. This lobe-finned fish measured between 8 and 15 feet long, and swam in freshwater rivers… Read the rest “Science Art: Hyneria, by ABelov2014”
SONG: “Bang, You’re Misled”
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SOURCE: Based on Defense One, 2 Oct 2020, “Can AI Detect Disinformation? A New Special Operations Program May Find… Read the rest “SONG: Bang, You’re Misled”
CNN and other outlets are covering some good news about the cutest of marsupial carnivores. Tasmanian devils are doing well enough (and so is their erstwhile environment) that ecologists… Read the rest “Tasmanian devils are being reintroduced to mainland Australia”
Science News listens to astronomical data in a way that’s helping vision-impaired people and scientists find new ways to understand what our deep-space telescopes are showing … Read the rest “Sonifications turn telescope images of deep space into music.”
A space telescope inside a space shuttle, from the STS-67 mission.
The mission summary, from archive.org, is:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Astro-2 Observavory in STS-67 Payload Bay, 1995”The Space Shuttle Endeavor, scheduled to launch March 2, 1995 from NASA’s
New Scientist reports on a new material that conducts electricity with no resistance whatsoever at room temperature – something electronics and electrical engineers have been… Read the rest “New superconductor has zero resistance at room temperature. With one catch….”
LiveScience answers that question: because a female mole’s underground life is brutal:
… Read the rest “Why do female moles grow testicles?”Just like a more typical mammalian ovary, ovotestes nurture and release eggs for fertilization.
This is a cartoon inspired by “the experiences of Santos-Dumont,” the famed Brazilian-born aviator who maybe might have kind of sort of had a powered flight… Read the rest “Science Art: Chasse à courre en dirigeable, by Albert Guillaume.”
Defector, a media outlet I’m rooting for, basically came to be when a bunch of Deadspin staffers refused to follow the corporate edict, “Stick to sports.” Well, they’re… Read the rest “Nobel CRISPR research as a sporting competition – or a war.”
Science magazine takes focus on a new form of microscopy, using DNA like a microscope to look inside cells:
… Read the rest “Using DNA to take snapshots of cells”To make the DNA microscope, postdoc Joshua Weinstein of the Broad Institute of
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