The mystery of ancient Egyptian head cones has been solved.
National Geographic shares new clues to an age-old puzzle, deciphering what exactly the cone-shaped objects on some people’s heads really were in ancient Egyptian paintings […]
SONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreShrews can shrink and regrow their brains.
The Scientist magazine investigates what’s going on inside the skulls of the tiniest terrestrial mammals. Etruscan shrews, it turns out, cope with winter’s demands by […]
Social media use linked to increased depression risk.
University of Arkansas is encouraging us to delete that app and stop feeding the feeds. A national study led by Dr. Brian Primack, dean of […]
Science Art: Holcorpa Maculosa Scudder
Click to embiggen A scorpionfly from the Miocene shales of Colorado, as the caption says in the Annual report of the Board of Regents of […]
Young ravens equal grown-up chimps on IQ tests.
Scientific American looks at a new round of tests that ravens as young as 4 months old have passed with flying colors, outwitting adult great […]
Mastodon tenderizers shift human history in North America wayyy back… again.
Science News reports on a twisty debate on human origins in North America, with a new analysis of stones embedded with microscopic bits of mastodon, […]
After six years, an asteroid sample reaches Earth.
Reuters reports on the success of the Hayabusa2 mission. The spacecraft, gone for six years, has finally come home with stuff scooped from an asteroid… […]
Science Art: Kulturbeigaben des Doppelgrabes von Oberkasssel, 1919.
Click to embiggen These are prehistoric bone tools used by prehistoric humans, or “Cultural additions from the double grave of Oberkasssel,” as the title reads […]
Coho salmon are getting killed by road runoff contaminated with rubber-tire chemicals.
Science has the cheerful results of a study in the U.S. Pacific Northwest that found a compound from rubber tires – a chemical so common, […]
New X-rays give an unprecedented look inside mummies.
Scientific Reports has some really remarkable 3D images (and printed replicas) of snakes, birds, and cats that were mummified by ancient Egyptians more than 2,000 […]
Tiny robots stitch nerves together
Science News has a report on nanoneurosurgery, using super-small, magnetically controlled machines to encourage separated neuron fibers to make new connections: Engineers Eunhee Kim and […]
Science Art: Thanksgiving Day sunspots (SOHO EIT 171 Latest Image: 2020/11/26 13:00), by NASA & ESA
Click to embiggen This is what our Sun looked like on Thanksgiving Day. There are sunspots across the lower right of the image, visible here […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: “Etude in B-flat minor” by Karol Szymanowski, Grégoire Blanc on theremin, GlassDuo on glass harp.
Originally written for piano, but more haunting in this arrangement. Supported by a grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture.
Thanksgiving Theremin: “How to play a scale on the theremin” – Carolina Eyck
She’s probably the highest-profile thereminist on the internet, and she’s not above sharing a little wisdom. She also gives lessons over yonder: https://carolinaeyck.com/lessons. You’ve heard […]
SONG: Six Seconds
SONG: “Six Seconds” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Science News, 21 Oct 2020, “NASA’s OSIRIS-REx survived its risky mission to grab a piece of an […]