Prehistoric dragon ate bones with its meat. And its own teeth.
LiveScience digs deep for a prehistoric prize, finding dietary clues about Smok wawelski – a peak predator who, thankfully, left modern scientists poop full of […]
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: Ancient Roman time keeping, sun path hora by Darekk2
Click to embiggen A chart of the sky, showing how Ancient Romans measured time in the year 8 CE – meaning, what hora it was […]
Planner’s hellish prediction: Self-driving cars will circle, not park.
UC Santa Cruz – or at least one of its professors – has raised an ominous warning of “robot gridlock,” caused when self-driving car algorithms […]
Pandas didn’t always live only on bamboo. In fact…
…Science News reveals, they switched to their singular diet within human history – the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms: Although modern giant pandas […]
Brain implant decodes the words your ears are hearing – or that you want to say.
New Scientist reveals an experimental system that uses brain electrodes to translate thoughts of speech into words spoken by an electronic voice: The technique used […]
Science Art: Styracosaurus, by Julio Lacerda
Click to embiggen I’ve always had a thing for these guys – the frills are so, well, *frilly*. I don’t usually picture them looking quite […]
New missing link: The ape that walked like we do.
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 […]
SONG: “2014 MU69 (Approach Me)”
SONG: “2014 MU₆₉ (Approach Me)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News, 30 Dec 2018-1 Jan 2019, “Live updates: New Horizons’ flyby of a distant Kuiper Belt […]
Researchers are moving a *forest* uphill to save monarch butterflies.
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 […]
Science Art: RCA Lunar Communications by James Burns
Click to embiggen Phoning home from the next world over. This is how it looked half a century ago. You can find more James Burns […]
The honeybee’s greatest foe isn’t after their blood – it’s sucking their *fat*.
Science Daily puts the beekeeper’s foe, the varroa mite (believed to be a key player in Colony Collapse Disorder), in a new light. The parasite […]
Growing perfect little human blood vessels in a dish – and a mouse
The University of British Columbia, via Science Daily, wants us to know that they’ve taken stem cells and used them to grow perfect little blood […]
Deprived kids feel the effects two decades later.
Medical Xpress (via PhysOrg) reports on a long-term Boston Children’s Hospital study of institutionalized children from Romanian orphanages – the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP). […]
Science Art: A Plunge into Space, book cover, 1890.
Click to embiggen This is the cover of an early science fiction hit, Robert Cromie’s A Plunge into Space, which was in print from 1890 […]
The Hubble is broken, and the gov’t shutdown means no one’s fixing it.
Nature shows us how politics is blinding science: Hubble’s mission operations are based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where most employees […]