Robot fish has battery blood.
Nature powers up with a mechanical fish that runs off a circulating liquid power source: The roughly 40-centimetre soft robot doesn’t have solid batteries — […]
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…
Read moreBoaty McBoatface’s Big Breakthrough
The Telegraph reports on the internet’s favorite ocean-going vessel, the submersible Boaty McBoatface, and the plucky little robot sub has just been doing some potentially […]
Bigger houses aren’t making people happier.
They’re just taking up more space. That’s the conclusion, published in The Atlantic, of researchers looking at how satisfied people are with their homes – […]
Science Art: favorite image Petrus Plancius Instructing Students in the Science of Navigation, early 17th century
Click to embiggen The Age of Exploration included at least a little bit of schoolwork. Here are navigation students learning the ways of current and […]
How the zebra got its stripes. (An 85-year-old researcher’s first published study!)
Popular Science thinks they know – and the answer is literally cool: Now the 85-year-old amateur scientist [Allison Cobb] has published her first scientific study […]
Ancient stoners used wooden bowls. (Not the kind on pipes, either.)
Science News traces the history of highs to a Chinese site where 2,500-year-old tombside remains indicate that smoldering cannabis was stacked in wooden bowls for […]
Why do bats live so long? And how can we live longer too?
Ars Technica tries to discover what it is about bats that could help us humans live longer, healthier lives: For the most part, as the […]
Science Art: Map IX: The Constellations of June and July by William Peck.
Click to embiggen An image of the summer sky (in the Northern Hemisphere) by William Peck, F.R.A.S., from his book, The constellations and how to […]
We’re all mutants. Or largely mutant.
Science News has the results of a new study that shows healthy “normal” humans have a “large patches” of mutated cells in lots of different […]
Venus is luring Earth explorers again.
Nature has a quite long piece (and quite sensational headline) on the way Earth’s “evil twin,” Venus, is inspiring a new generation of interplanetary explorers […]
Human beings swallow 50,000 microparticles of plastic per year. More, if you like bottled water.
And, The Guardian adds, we also inhale about that much plastic into our lungs as well. The study, published in Environmental Science and Technology, is […]
The CRISPR-edited babies might have shortened lifespans.
Why? Well, as Nature explains, we’ve just found out that the same gene combination that gives HIV resistance to those kids He Jianku worked on […]
Science Art: Mariner 10 issue of 1975, by Roy Gjerston
Click to embiggen Roy Gjerston was an artist who designed stamps for the US Postal Service and spaceship concept art for General Dynamics. So this […]
A genetically weaponized fungus is getting used against malaria.
PhysOrg has a report on a genetically modified fungus that is capable, if released into the wild, of using spider venom to eliminate the mosquitoes […]
The Search for Martian Fettuccine
Science Daily has word from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers, who instruct us to look for life on Mars by searching out rock formations […]