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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This is the insignia of the 254th Combat Communications Group, a unit that’s normally part of the Texas Air National Guard, but if federalized, becomes part of the Air Force Space … Read the rest “Science Art: 254th Combat Communications Group emblem”
It’s not quite caveman versus dinosaur, but LiveScience has new research on a Neanderthal child’s bones from Poland’s Ciemna Cave that got digested by a giant bird,… Read the rest “Neanderthal kid got chomped by a giant bird”
Wired shares the latest unexpected benefit from mushroom fundi Paul Stamets, who may have found a weapon to beat back CCD, the syndrome that’s devastating bee populations. He noticed… Read the rest “Mushrooms could save the bees. Maybe.”
Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as a snipe. Lots of kinds of snipe, in fact.
And snipe hunting was a real thing, too.
This illustration is of a Wilson’s snipe, and it comes from A history… Read the rest “Science Art: Wilson’s Snipe, by W.I. Beecroft, 1912”
And her dad’s a Minnesota Vikings fan, too. Sweden’s The Local reports on young Saga Vanecek, whose family moved from Minneapolis to Sweden to get in touch with their roots…… Read the rest “A hero emerges: 8-year-old girl *named Saga* pulls ancient Viking sword from Swedish lake.”
NSF Science 360 News gazes at a new, foamy polymer paint that stays so cool in the sunlight, it could be used to replace air conditioning:
… Read the rest “Cool paint. Literally.”An alternative to these energy-intensive cooling
Science News uses LIDAR mapping to reveal an ancient Maya empire that wasn’t so much slash-and-burn and smash-and-grab as they were smart farmers and wide-ranging communicators… Read the rest “Lasers reveal ancient Maya as well-connected, environmentally conscious.”
The Johns Hopkins Hub shares the news that their medical school researchers are advocating, in the October issue of Neuropharmacology, that psilocybin mushrooms be taken out of the same… Read the rest “Johns Hopkins researchers recommend taking magic mushrooms off Schedule I.”
This might be the greatest contribution gardening ever made to space travel.
In the middle of World War II, engineers were trying to figure out how to make pressurized suits… Read the rest “Science Art: The Goodrich XH-5 Tomato-Worm Suit”
The Guardian pulls back the veil – using fossilized cholesterol, of all things – on what could be the world’s oldest animal – an oval-shaped creature that lived… Read the rest “The oldest animal.”
Space.com makes an announcement that sounds… more fun than usual. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency landed two rovers that hop (like fleas? like springtails? like bunnies?)… Read the rest “Japan landed two bouncing rovers on an asteroid.”
Electrical history from PW Lanier and the Minneapolis Institute of Art:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Tesla Coil: high-frequency discharge demonstrator, Welch Scientific Company, 1931”This tabletop Tesla coil was likely made for science classes, producing long, impressive sparks
Observing the equinox. Have music (roughly) but no good words… yet. Song and penitential cover coming soon.
It’s an iconic, stress-inducing sound – think about medical dramas or crime thrillers set in hospitals. And now, we bring the beep home, some of us. Beep. Beep. Beep. Unceasing.… Read the rest “Composing the “beep” of the medical monitor.”
Nature asks the question raised by University of Florida astronomers: how did Roddenberry know there’d be a hot, heavy, but Earth-like planet orbiting 40 Eridani?:
… Read the rest “Looks like real-life astronomers found Spock’s home planet right where it was supposed to be.”Bo Ma at the University
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