This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreReally, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
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An ancient Roman central heating system – hot water would be flooded through the basement, and the floors would warm up. “Hypocaust” was the name of… Read the rest “Science Art: Hypocaustum excavated behind the old city of Rottenburg am Neckar , by Eduard von Kallee.”
MIT News has the (low-pitched) buzz on how listening to 40 Hz sounds have cured mice of Alzheimer’s symptoms by changing their brainwaves:
… Read the rest “A certain frequency of sound can alter your brain. And maybe fight Alzheimer’s?”This noninvasive treatment, which works
Nature reports on a new agricultural practice that has some weird ramifications for humans – a genetics process for making one male create sperm cells carrying another male’s… Read the rest “Someone else’s DNA got in there: Engineering a bull to create another bull’s semen.”
Science Daily shouts about a Washington State University team that headed out to the geysers and hot springs of Yellowstone to cultivate a relationship with bacteria that might be able … Read the rest “Harvesting the hot-water bacteria that “eat and breathe” electricity.”
Here, an astronomical family is building a 36-inch refractor telescope known as the Great Lick Refractor in the 1880s. It’s named for James Lick, an eccentric entrepreneur who financed… Read the rest “Science Art: Four views of the Alvan Clark & Sons workshop…, from Scientific American, Sep. 24, 1887”
Inhabitat talks up a pretty cool design project that’s taking shape off Copenhagen, where the government has announced plans to build Holmene, a complex of nine islands that will… Read the rest “Denmark to build energy-producing islands (that you can live on).”
Science News reports on the historic find of skin-art tools from the American West … a discovery made by looking through some excavated artifacts that have been in storage since 1972… Read the rest “2,000-year-old tattoo needles (made from cactus spines) found in an old drawer.”
A bird in its home (grown on a vine, fashioned by humans).
Cute little guy, too.
I found this on the Scientific Illustration tumblr, which got it from the Cincinnati Public… Read the rest “Science Art: Progne purpurea. Purple martin, by Howard Jones, 1886”
Nature has some, uh, heady science in the form of brewer’s yeast genetically modified to produce chemicals usually found in marijuana – the healthy ones *and* the fun ones… Read the rest ““Hacked” yeast used to brew THC and other cannabis compounds.”
Science Daily passes the word from Wake Forest about medical engineers who’ve come up with a functional bioprinter that can replace real skin layer by layer by the patient’s… Read the rest “We’ve got a bedside bioprinter to replace your injured skin directly on you.”
This image is from the British Library archive, a book called The Cruise of the Marchesa … With maps and … woodcuts drawn by J. Keulemans, C. Whymper and others. by Francis H. … Read the rest “Science Art: Korowaar, page 488 of The Cruise of The Marchesa, 1889.”
SONG: “My Batteries”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Jacob Margolis’ Twitter feed, 13 Feb 2019, 3:30 AM “The last message they received…,” as used in … Read the rest “SONG: My Batteries”
Not the kind on a self-sufficient satellite, but, as Nature tells us, the kind used to beam clean solar power back to Earth:
… Read the rest “China says they’re ready to put solar panels in orbit.”The idea of space-based solar power stations has been around for
National Geographic has details that are bound to give arachnophobes THE WILLIES, but for the rest of us, there’s this rather large spider in Angola that’s new to science, … Read the rest “We’ve discovered a tarantula with a horn on its back.”
A close-up of the tiny ear-bones of a few kinds of animals, including human beings.
This is a detail of a page from Musurgia Universalis, which was the book of the month at the Glasgow University… Read the rest “Science Art: Ossicula Organi Auditus Diversorium Animalium (Aural-Organ Bones of Diverse Animals), by Athanasius Kircher”
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