Yes, KISS is actually having a concert for sharks.
From SportDiver‘s “Ask a Marine Biologist” column comes a question about a band that might have lost some human relevance, but is still aiming for […]
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 moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
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Science Art: Neuron Matrix, by Nicolas P. Rougier
Click to embiggen slightly A nerve, an electric cell, a node in a network. A place and size where electricity meets chemistry inside our bodies. […]
The 15,000-year-old Mexican mammoth trap.
ABC News (Australia) shares the findings of a Mexican expedition that has discovered a trove of mammoth bones in what appears to have been a […]
Silently hacking Alexa with a laser. (And Siri and Google Home too.)
Ars Technica is (or rather, researchers they’re reporting on are) quietly taking over Alexa and other smart-home devices with inaudible – and sometimes invisible – […]
Hot electric-car batteries recharge in 10 minutes.
Nature has research (from Joule) that brings us closer to an electric filling station for battery-powered cars, thanks to the discovery that raising the temperature […]
Science Art: UCF Space Game football uniform, 2019
Click to embiggen vastly UCF, the University of Central Florida, is the university closest to the Kennedy Space Center, and has a rivalry with the […]
Measles makes your immune system forget what it’s defeated before.
Nature reveals research in Science and Science Immunology that describes a one hidden risk of measles – that by catching it, you’ll also become more […]
Bourbons have microscopic signatures. (In a way that scotches don’t.)
Science News takes appreciation of American whiskeys to a whole new level – a teeny-tiny one. Researchers publishing in Physical Review Fluids found that bourbons, […]
A new look at the mammals who lived with dinosaurs
Nature rounds up a “rash of fossil finds” revealing the lives of the first mammals, shedding a little more light on how our forebears survived […]
Science Art: Major John Wesley Powell’s Boat, the Emma Dean, 1871.
Click to embiggen Major John Wesley Powell was a soldier and explorer, a geologist and a professor who led the first government expedition down the […]
Easter Island statues made farms more fertile
Science News investigates the benefits of carving monumental heads and burying their bottom halves in the ground. It seems like they might have had a […]
Gut bacteria can help the brain conquer fear; antibiotics can make PTSD recovery harder.
Science magazine explores the gut-brain connection further with a study that finds gut bacteria can help us get over our fear responses… unless antibiotics have […]
SONG: Multicellular
SONG: “Multicellular”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News, 17 October 2019, “Acrobatic choanoflagellates could help explain how multicellularity evolved,” as used in the post “How we […]
How we became multicellular
Science News reveals the strange habits of little single-celled swimming organisms called “choanoflagellates” that tend to gather together in clusters for specialized tasks – which […]
Science Art: The normal conduction system of the heart, by Rob Kreuger.
Just looking at heart pictures. No reason. Nice when they work right. Image from Wikimedia Commons.