Smiling behind the mask
Scientific American shares (in an interview with facial expression and emotion researcher Ursula Hess, deputy dean at Humboldt University) some of the physiology behind a phenomenon… Read the rest “Smiling behind the mask”
Science Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreScience Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton
This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreScience Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreScience Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.
This 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
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreScience Art: Mars - Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreDNA testing the Dead Sea Scrolls
National Geographic gets physical clues about the parchment the Dead Sea Scrolls were written on – by DNA testing the fragmentary animal skins that these scriptures were written… Read the rest “DNA testing the Dead Sea Scrolls”
To make hydrogen from water and sunlight, you need an efficient catalyst. Here’s a perfect one.
Nature looks at what it takes to make a 100 percent efficient catalyst for getting clean fuel from water:
… Read the rest “To make hydrogen from water and sunlight, you need an efficient catalyst. Here’s a perfect one.”The largest potential source of renewable energy is the Sun: about 0.02% of the solar
Science Art: Demo-2 Launch: Setting Forth on a Historic Journey by NASA/Bill Ingalls
A photo with maybe a little optimism.
From NASA’s Image of the Day gallery description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Demo-2 Launch: Setting Forth on a Historic Journey by NASA/Bill Ingalls”A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft
Dinosaur cannibals.
Popular Science makes some of the most terrifying creatures of prehistory even more terrifying with reconstructed evidence that flesh-eating dinosaurs got hungry enough to eat each … Read the rest “Dinosaur cannibals.”
These sea worms look sequined – so we named them after Elvis
Science News reviews the show-stopping submarine research that has gone behind the scenes with four species of sequined sea worms that have collectively been named “Elvis worms”… Read the rest “These sea worms look sequined – so we named them after Elvis”
Science Art: Cephalopodes: Pl. III, 1889.
Prince Albert I of Monaco was really into marine life, and used the royal yacht as a scientific research vessel.
Here, from the description on The Artful Gene’s tumblog… Read the rest “Science Art: Cephalopodes: Pl. III, 1889.”
SONG: In the Ring
SONG: “In the Ring”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Scientific American, 4 May 2020, “A Shiny Snack Bag’s Reflections Can Reconstruct the Room around It,” as used in… Read the rest “SONG: In the Ring”
Antarctica is turning green.
Reuters reports that, if we didn’t have enough proof that world is turning inside out, the so-called White Continent is now warm enough that its snow is turning green:
… Read the rest “Antarctica is turning green.”Now, using data
Better bottles.
The Guardian looks forward to a time when our plastic bottles will be replaced with plant-based containers that turn into, essentially, mulch in a year:
… Read the rest “Better bottles.”The plans, devised by renewable
Science Art: Devonian Marine Organisms, by Aleksandra Arkhipova, 2015
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From the “Scientific Illustration” collection on Wikimedia Commons, where this image of trilobites and prehistoric shellfish has the following… Read the rest “Science Art: Devonian Marine Organisms, by Aleksandra Arkhipova, 2015”
One fatty meal can reduce your ability to focus.
Science Daily reports on Ohio State University research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that finds a single meal high in saturated fats, while comforting, totally… Read the rest “One fatty meal can reduce your ability to focus.”
Music of a pulsing star reveals its inner structure.
Nature looks inside pulsing stars – not pulsars, but a group called “δ Scuti stars” – that flicker in a regular enough pattern that astronomers can use the frequency… Read the rest “Music of a pulsing star reveals its inner structure.”
Pluto (probably) got whacked on one side so hard it jiggled on the other, thanks to a (partially) liquid center.
Scientific American shows how the dwarf planet at the fringes of our solar system was partially shaped by a cartoonish reaction to a major collision:
… Read the rest “Pluto (probably) got whacked on one side so hard it jiggled on the other, thanks to a (partially) liquid center.”Its elliptical western lobe, the 1,240-mile-long
Science Art: Albumasar De magnis coniunctionibus, 1515
Ja’far ibn Muḥammad Abū Ma’shar wrote a book – and published it in Venice. It was the place to be, and to see the sky, in the 1500s. He was famous. A star … Read the rest “Science Art: Albumasar De magnis coniunctionibus, 1515”