This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreThis is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreThese are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreRed pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreThis is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreScientific American shows how the dwarf planet at the fringes of our solar system was partially shaped by a cartoonish reaction to a major collision: […]
Click to embiggen Ja’far ibn Muḥammad Abū Ma’shar wrote a book – and published it in Venice. It was the place to be, and to […]
I’m trying to keep COVID-19 research to a minimum here, just because there’s so much of it everywhere, but I couldn’t resist this piece from […]
Scientific American is doing a deep, multi-story dive on privacy issues, and this one’s a doozy. Researchers have used an irregularly shaped shiny object, like […]
Nature has a video up with paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim, who discusses tailbones from the Sahara that indicate this gigantic, prehistoric bird relative swam for its […]
Click to embiggen From the D.M. Ferry & Co. Seed Annual, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Fresh vegetables, fresh muskmelon. Mmm. I do love a […]
Scientific American marvels over paintings found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi – 44,000-year-old images of fantastic beast-men that bear signs of modern human ways […]
The Guardian has grim news for bugs (which include critters like the bees that pollinate our crops) with a little flash of hope. Insect populations […]
Click to embiggen Astronomers are marking the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope with a “ portrait of a firestorm of starbirth in a […]
SONG: “In the Sounding Deep”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American, April 2020, “Undersea Telescopes Scan the Sky from Below,” as used in the post “Telescopes […]
Nature takes time out from COVID-19 news to inveigh against another kind of epidemic – of online viral content that’s, shall we say, too often […]
It’s going to be a rough season again, Science News lets us know. Tropical weather forecasters are predicting 18 named storms and at least four […]
Click to embiggen No gunpowder was harmed in the making of this photograph. That’s just the power of a lot of magnetism making a hunk […]
Science News opens a new book on an old pigment, reconstructing a botanical purple-blue hue that had puzzled medievalists for ages: The pigment, called folium, […]
Science News has what’s practically a Godzilla story: the discovery that residue from Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests can be found inside the bodies of […]
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