There are a lot of viruses in the Arctic ice – and they can show us where carbon is sinking.
Science News has a novel way to map out potential climate change – by tracking where new viruses are showing up in the ocean: Water […]
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 moreEye in the sky will see how carbon really moves (which should make climate science better).
Nature shares details on NASA’s new International Space Station project – a device that can see CO2 in ways that most satellites can’t: The US$110-million […]
Science Art: Perspective Cutaway View of a Rotary Hammering Sample Acquisition Section (Fig. 5) from NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20150003208
Click to embiggen A way NASA plans to get core samples from Mars, the Jovian moon Europa, and beyond – a drill designed to cut […]
A study of BS-ing finds the greatest exaggerators: boys from wealthy backgrounds.
The (not generally scientific, but…) Washington Post shares an elegantly constructed social science experiment that measures a person’s likelihood to bluff their way to success […]
Your tongue can smell.
Science Daily reveals the existence of olfactory receptors – the nerves that give us a sense of smell – located on our tongues: “Our research […]
We’ve 3D-printed a complete heart out of a patient’s own cells.
Science Daily reports on an Israeli research team who created a whole heart – not just tissues or pieces – from scratch – or, at […]
Science Art: Sinocalliopteryx gigas as a stealth hunter feeding on the primitive bird Confuciusornis, by Cheung Chungtat
Click to embiggen An Easter Sunday lunch is served: an early bird! This is the Chinese feathered dinosaur Sinocalliopteryx gigas, chomping the bird Confuciusornis – […]
SONG: “Math” (a penitential cover)
SONG: “Math” (a penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for March’s song (which I […]
The pigs were dead for 10 hours, and then they weren’t: “The ethics of experimenting on partially reanimated brains is uncharted territory.”
So this is a study from Nature, but I like the way Vox covered it. Yale scientists, using a kind of artificial blood (and machine […]
U.S. measles outbreak keeps breaking….
Science News tracks the new outbreak of a disease we’d formally “eliminated”: The viral disease has sickened at least 555 people in 20 states, according […]
Science Art: Chandra X-ray Observatory close-up of the core of the M87 galaxy, by NASA/CXC/Villanova University/J. Neilsen
Click to embiggen This is not the famous Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) black hole image that you’ve probably seen by now. It’s a visualization of […]
New species of human discovered in the Philippines
Nature introduces Homo luzonensis, who was hanging out – possibly with other human species – in a cave in the Philippines 50,000 years ago: The […]
We’ve got a photograph of a supermassive black hole.
Science News has a historic snapshot that it took a long while to take – and from a long, long way away: A world-spanning network […]
Scientists discover a Peruvian four-legged whale – with “otter-like features”.
Science Daily has more on the creature named Peregocetus pacificus, which unfortunately hasn’t been around for a 42.6 million years, but was once a whale […]
Science Art: Verge Watch Escapement, from The Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary, Vol. 2, 1820.
A horological device called a “verge escapement” (on the bottom) with a balance wheel (on the top) from a pocketwatch. An “escapement” is the thing […]