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.)
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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…
Read moreThe rover was sent on a 90-day mission. It kept operating on Mars for 15 years, 28 miles and 5,000 charge cycles. Today, NASA said goodbye.
This Twitter thread from NASA Solar System is probably… Read the rest “A moment of silence for Opportunity.”
The Guardian demonstrates mathematical skills in creatures that don’t even have internal skeletons, with Australian research that shows bees handling some rather sophisticated… Read the rest “Mathematical bees. The insect, not the competition. They know their numbers!”
This is a copepod, a critter related to the Spongebob character Plankton. It’s from a book called Histoire des monocles that came out in 1820. The scientist who wrote it, Louis Jurine,… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 2. Monoculus quadricornis fuscus, a copepod female by Mlle. Christine Jurine”
Nature reports on a lifesaving use for diet drugs:
… Read the rest “Diet drugs can prevent malaria and encephalitis – by making mosquitos less hungry.”Female Aedes aegypti, like other mosquito species, feed on blood to get the protein they need to produce their eggs, and spread diseases
This story has been doing the rounds lately, but the research is available via Science Direct (publishing the Quaternary Science Reviews article). A team of University College of London… Read the rest “The Little Ice Age happened in part because of Europe reaching the New World.”
LiveScience digs deep for a prehistoric prize, finding dietary clues about Smok wawelski – a peak predator who, thankfully, left modern scientists poop full of bones:
… Read the rest “Prehistoric dragon ate bones with its meat. And its own teeth.”In a new study
A chart of the sky, showing how Ancient Romans measured time in the year 8 CE – meaning, what hora it was when the sun was at a specific point in the sky at the equinoxes… Read the rest “Science Art: Ancient Roman time keeping, sun path hora by Darekk2”
UC Santa Cruz – or at least one of its professors – has raised an ominous warning of “robot gridlock,” caused when self-driving car algorithms realize it’s… Read the rest “Planner’s hellish prediction: Self-driving cars will circle, not park.”
…Science News reveals, they switched to their singular diet within human history – the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms:
… Read the rest “Pandas didn’t always live only on bamboo. In fact…”Although modern giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca
New Scientist reveals an experimental system that uses brain electrodes to translate thoughts of speech into words spoken by an electronic voice:
… Read the rest “Brain implant decodes the words your ears are hearing – or that you want to say.”The technique used temporary electrodes
I’ve always had a thing for these guys – the frills are so, well, *frilly*. I don’t usually picture them looking quite so … of the dawn, I guess.… Read the rest “Science Art: Styracosaurus, by Julio Lacerda”
The Leakey Foundation reveals what we know about the newest proto-human species to be given a name, Australopithecus sediba – and what these guys tell us about the way we learned to… Read the rest “New missing link: The ape that walked like we do.”
SONG: “2014 MU₆₉ (Approach Me)”.
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SOURCE: Science News, 30 Dec 2018-1 Jan 2019, “Live updates: New Horizons’ flyby of a distant Kuiper Belt object,”… Read the rest “SONG: “2014 MU69 (Approach Me)””
Nature reports on a peculiar, passionate project led by Mexican scientists who are trying to save an endangered species by transplanting hundreds of fir trees to higher, cooler elevations,… Read the rest “Researchers are moving a *forest* uphill to save monarch butterflies.”
Phoning home from the next world over.
This is how it looked half a century ago.
You can find more James Burns illustrations for the Apollo mission here.
[via Humanoid History… Read the rest “Science Art: RCA Lunar Communications by James Burns”
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