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 […]
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
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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 […]
A single feral cat destroys a colony of endangered birds.
Australia’s WA Today reveals how one stray cat killed 40 chicks and forced a protected bird colony to move elsewhere to try to survive: The […]
Forbes is replacing articles editors with robots now?
I’m trying to parse this some other way, but Digiday is sure making it seem like this “topic prompter/rough draft creator” software is a step […]
Science Art: Helicodiceros crinitus Schott by J. Strohmayer / Anstalt v. Reiffenstein & Rösch in Wein.
Click to embiggen An image of an arum, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Aroideae, 1 album, consisting of plates from Heinrich Wilhelm Schott’s Aroideae. The […]
Penguin choices: Either the scientist comes and makes you puke, or else your whole family’s poop gets photographed from space.
Science News gets the dirt on how we use space hardware to discover what penguins are eating: Because Adélie penguins cluster together at a predictable […]
The more extreme your politics, the less you can think about how you think.
Popular Science follows University of London researchers as they experiment on True Believers of any persuasion – and find that those who hold extreme beliefs […]
A First Look at Ultima Thule
Science News gives us the latest on New Horizon’s flyby of Ultima Thule, giving us our closest look at the furthest object we’ve ever visited: […]
Genetically-altered houseplants clear indoor air.
Science Daily reveals an environmentally friendly GMO – a new variety of pothos ivy that University of Washington researchers designed to remove chloroform and benzene […]