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: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: 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, …
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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 […]
Science Art: Hefezellen
An image of yeast, originally made by NASA (though the context is now unclear, since the web page Wikimedia Commons sourced the photo from no […]
Scientists suspect magnetic fields in mass extinctions.
Science News looks at new research revisiting an old idea – that mass extinctions have something to do with reversals in Earth’s magnetic fields. The […]
Lehigh study probes why COVID-19 gets different responses from conservatives and liberals.
EurekAlert! posts a report on the study in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research called “Getting Conservatives and Liberals to Agree on the […]
Science Art: At the edge of the blast, Hubble Space Telescope, 2020.
Click to embiggen From the ESA Image Gallery, dated 28 Aug 2020, comes an image of a portion of the Cygnus supernova, a blast wave […]
We just discovered a reef taller than a skyscraper.
How could it stay hidden? Science magazine celebrates the first big reef discovery in 120 years… and it really is big: At 500 meters tall, […]
The mystery of sand.
XKCD’s Randall Munroe, writing now for The New York Times, explores a scientific mystery more baffling than quantum physics – what makes sand feel softer […]