SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreThis is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreThis image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreAn illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreThis is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreThis is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
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Click for rotating ogv video This is a video of a mouse, not yet born, that already has some issues; specifically “Waardenburg-Anophthalmia Syndrome.” It’s originally […]
Science Alert unravels the findings of a group at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Bordeaux, who have spun skin cells […]
The Guardian looks at the way Google Maps is changing the way we look at maps, and the way one artist is hacking Google Maps […]
Science Daily leads a round of applause for researchers who’ve found that seals clap to each other underwater: “The discovery of ‘clapping seals’ might not […]
Click to embiggen vastly. Mushrooms you can trust. I think. From the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Flickr collection “Edible and poisonous mushrooms: what to eat and […]
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 […]
BBC Future muses over the ways in which language can limit scientific research – when you don’t have the words for a concept: For Zulu-speaking […]
Click to embiggen vastly This is half of a stereoscopic image of the surface of Mars. The other half is
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 in […]
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 […]
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, […]
Click to embiggen This is a fusion reactor that was never built, a small power plant that takes the principles of a tokamak (use super-heated […]
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 […]
Science News introduces us to a robot that flies on wings that can change shape just like a real bird’s: Now, using new insights into […]
Popular Science describes (a bit briefly) a real pearl of a concept, introducing the gentle, coast-restoring art of oyster-tecture: Undoing our damage to oysters can […]
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