This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreThere’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreI found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreThis is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThe Guardian looks at the way Google Maps is changing the way we look at maps, and the way one artist is hacking Google Maps to make a point:
… Read the rest “An artist created a fake traffic jam with a wagonload of phones.”Simon Weckert’s artwork Google Maps Hacks involved
Science Daily leads a round of applause for researchers who’ve found that seals clap to each other underwater:
… Read the rest “Seals talk with applause. OK, clapping. They clap to each other.”“The discovery of ‘clapping seals’ might not
Mushrooms you can trust. I think.
From the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Flickr collection “Edible and poisonous mushrooms: what to eat and … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 7: Sweetbread, Horn of Plenty, Puffball, Chanterelle, from Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, 1894.”
Nature shares DNA research on the remains of four children in what is now Cameroon, revealing clues about how they lived and where they came from thousands of years ago:
… Read the rest “Ancient African genome offers migration clues for the first humans.”he findings underscore
BBC Future muses over the ways in which language can limit scientific research – when you don’t have the words for a concept:
… Read the rest “How do you say “dinosaur” in Zulu?”For Zulu-speaking South African schoolchildren
This is half of a stereoscopic image of the surface of Mars. The other half is here, if you want to line them up, one in each eye, and see the Chasma in all its depth and … Read the rest “Science Art: Ophir Chasma, ESP_062483_1755, by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory HiRise.”
SONG: “Under Orion’s Arms”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: SPACE.com, 3 January 2020, “Will Bright Star Betelgeuse Finally Explode? A Look at the Dimming Red Giant… Read the rest “SONG: Under Orion’s Arms”
Nature reports on an old environmental menace. Climate simulations, they say, show that the mass emission of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) beginning in the 1950s could be responsible for… Read the rest “Ozone-eating chemicals (remember fluorocarbons?) are warming the Arctic.”
The Wall Street Journal reports that since the average human body temperature of 98.7 degrees F was first established, the average human has gotten taller, gained some weight – and… Read the rest “We’re cooler than we used to be. Literally – human body temperatures have dropped.”
This is a fusion reactor that was never built, a small power plant that takes the principles of a tokamak (use super-heated plasma to generate more power than you put into… Read the rest “Science Art: Quasi-Poloidal Stellarator (QPS), 2007”
The New York Times covers a building material that could be a boon to the planet, a bacteria-enriched concrete that cleans the air and grows more of itself:
… Read the rest “Living concrete photosynthesizes, reproduces itself – thanks to gelatin..”Now, an interdisciplinary team
Science News introduces us to a robot that flies on wings that can change shape just like a real bird’s:
… Read the rest “Pigeonbot flies on wings that change shape.”Now, using new insights into exactly how pigeons’ joints control the spread
Popular Science describes (a bit briefly) a real pearl of a concept, introducing the gentle, coast-restoring art of oyster-tecture:
… Read the rest “Oyster farms against beach erosion: a coastal win-win”Undoing our damage to oysters can help ease our impact
A painting of Mayan pyramids by a mysterious man, described on Public Domain Review (where I found this image) as an “artist, erotic publisher, explorer, and general… Read the rest “Science Art: Pyramid of the Sun and the Moon (1825-1835), by Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck”
Nature takes a look at how the tragic fire at Notre Dame last year created a unique opportunity for researchers to study medieval construction:
… Read the rest “Learning from the ashes of Notre Dame”The structure was modified in the Middle Ages
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