This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreThis is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreThis is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreThis is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreThis is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreIn Forbes, Johns Hopkins Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics Steven Salzberg has put forward a modest mathematical proposal to solve some of […]
Buzzfeed reports on an unexpected personality clash with an AI on the International Space Station – an incident that could affect how similar synthetic companions […]
Click to embiggen From the Wikimedia Commons description: (a) The field of a magnetic source (right) is appearing as an isolated magnetic monopole when passing […]
The American Council on Science and Health thinks disagreements over facts – even ones based on scientific evidence – may well naturally lead to the […]
PhysOrg explains that they were really Elasmotheriums – 3.5-ton primordial rhinos known as “Siberian unicorns” – but they really did survive into the era of […]
“Atom” used to be the indivisible unit of matter, the thing smaller than which it was impossible to go. Now we know there are things […]
SONG: “Quantum Biology”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American, Vol. 27, Dec. 2018, “’Schrödinger’s Bacterium’ Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone”, as used in the post […]
I don’t think Lula Mae is ever coming home. (And if you don’t get the reference, go now and watch the movie!)
They just don’t cowboy like they used to.
Science News is a leetle late to the game, but that’s the new reality. Researchers have completed some early studies on how fake news gets […]
Answering the unspoken question, yes, we are a little feverish here in the guild headquarters. Science News answers the explicit question, however. By having very […]
Click to embiggen Two fish from one of the first collections of X-ray photographs, published in Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen, 1896. From […]
Popular Science can reveal the disturbing solution to a minor military mystery with the story of how space weather made a bunch of military mines […]
Nature explodes the myth of brutal, violent cavemen with a skull study that shows they were about as mellow as modern humans: Writing in Nature, […]
Science Daily invites us to the opening chapter of an alien invasion story, as international researchers explain how they just found a 31-kilometer-wide crater from […]
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