India’s moon lander went silent minutes before landing.
Nature mourns the apparent loss of India’s first lunar lander, which stopped transmitting as it descended to the Moon’s south pole: Mission control at the […]
Science Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
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Science Art: Sunset in the Eye of a Hurricane
Click to embiggen Well, I made it through Dorian just fine this week. Some islands less than 100 miles to the east didn’t. This is […]
Geologists explore a lost continent hidden under Southern Europe.
Science reveals the Atlantis-like story of Greater Adria, a continent the size of Greenland that vanished 140 million years ago, not under the sea but […]
How a social network can be gerrymandered – and how that can affect our decision-making (and real-life voting).
Nature has a fascinating piece of research (with great graphics, so please click through) on how exactly public opinions can be molded by a few […]
Science Art: Trigla Hirundo, Lin., from Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (A Natural History of the Animal Kingdom)
Click to embiggen It’s not a flying fish, but something called a “sapphirine gurnard,” which is unusual not because it flies, but because it walks […]
A remarkably tidy asteroid.
Science News describes how the MASCOT asteroid lander has found the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu oddly devoid of dust: The asteroid, thought to have formed from […]
An algorithm to sniff out fake news, linguistically.
The Conversation looks at a way that Fatemeh Torabi Asr, a computational linguistics researcher at Simon Fraser University, has devised to use computers to instantaneously […]
Science Art: Biosphere_2_-_panoramio_(4) by Qygen, 19 Aug 2003.
Click to embiggen Sure, I listen to an episode of Omnibus! here and there, and the latest was on the oddly half-forgotten project that was […]
SONG: Built On Sand
SONG: “Built on Sand”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 2 July 2019, “Time is running out for sand,” as used in the post “We’re running out […]
We caught a glimpse of a symbol becoming an idea in the brain.
Science News shares results from an English MRI experiment that has mapped, for the first time, how exactly our brain takes a symbol, like a […]
New hope for coral reefs is sprouting at Florida Aquarium
CNN is among the news outlets covering a hopeful story (as the rain forests burn), that the Florida Aquarium in Tampa has found a way […]
Phil Plait explains why nuking Mars is a bad idea.
The internet’s “Bad Astronomer” takes to SyFy.com to explain to Elon Musk and everybody else why detonating nuclear bombs on the Martian ice caps would […]
Science Art: (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) Mitophyllus macrocerus, male, by Des Helmore
Click to embiggen vastly A beetle of character. From Wikimedia Commons.
How larvae leap long with no legs
Science News looks at high-speed photo research that reveals how a gall midge larva can leap up to 36 times its body length without any […]
Fishing ecology: the big ones are getting away.
Nature shares the sad fact that “freshwater megafish” – in other words, the really big ones, the 60-pounders out there in the rivers and lakes […]