Medieval Blue is Remade
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 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 moreThere are nuclear-bomb layers in whale sharks’ bones.
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 […]
Neanderthal yarn proves math skills in prehistoric culture.
Ars Technica looks at the world’s oldest bit of string and find it tells a profound story about Neanderthal life: The 6.2mm (0.24 inch) long […]
Science Art: 3D Printed Copper Surface, vol. 1, by David Pervan, 2018.
Click to embiggen Not a landscape, nor a texture, but an electrical conductor. From Mr. Pervan’s explanation on Wikimedia Commons: My research is on using […]
New York’s coronavirus outbreak came from Europe, not China.
The New York Times looks at two different batches of genetic data which both indicate that shutting down travel from China didn’t actually affect the […]
Stanford’s butt-reading toilet knows how healthy you are.
CNET (among others) has brought us news at the confluence of two contemporary concerns: Are we carrying germs we don’t know about? and … Just […]
Science Art: Aerial image and satellite derived image of Florida lakes, by Richard P. Stumpf, U.S. Geological Survey.
Click to embiggen From the USGS: This image is a cropped rendition of two aerial images that demonstrate satellite-derived cyanobacteria concentrations in surface waters from […]
There were a bunch of different humans hanging out in southern Africa
That’s before Homo sapiens came on the scene. Science News looks at new evidence that three different species of human ancestors were present in the […]
Bored with hanging out at home? Count some penguins (or spot some galaxies) for science.
Scientific American has some suggestions for your self-isolation. There are a few ways you can help researchers out without ever leaving home: “I think where […]
Telescopes deep under the sea are revealing secrets of deep space.
Scientific American has more on how some astronomers are using the ocean itself to scan the skies: Suspended near the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea […]
Science Art: Elasmotherium by Alice B. Woodward, 1912.
Click to embiggen The so-called “Siberian unicorn,” the Elasmotherium, a noble critter here pictured in the pages of Evolution of the Past, by Henry R. […]
It’s not how fast you walk, but how many steps you take that helps you live longer.
Science News shares 10 years of step-counting longevity research that indicates that slow, steady, and not stopping is the way to win the race – […]
The southern jet stream is finally going back to normal as the ozone hole closes.
New Scientist has some uplifting news about the ozone hole. It’s fixing itself at last, and as it does so, the planet’s wind patterns are […]
Nature: “How a fly came to love the vomit fruit”
You know, I went looking for some non-coronavirus science news, and Nature provided this gem of a headline about a plucky Drosophilia fruit-fly species and […]
March song delayed
I’ve got music, but, you know, there’s some other stuff happening, right? Should have plenty of time to record some penitential covers, though.