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 morePopular Science shows what it takes to get data sometimes – when the enormous marine reptile you affixed your tracking equipment to carries on migrating right into a major hurricane… Read the rest “Tracking a leatherback turtle through Hurricane Florence”
Not just a kangaroo, and not just a nail-tailed kangaroo. A lunated nail-tailed kangaroo. And a cute one, too. From John Gould’s The Mammals of Australia, 1863. … Read the rest “Science Art: Lunated Nail-Tailed Kangaroo, 1863”
Science News goes deeper into a rock that bears a cross-hatch pattern made 73,000 years ago in a South African cave:
… Read the rest “The world’s oldest drawing was made with a red ocher crayon.”The discovery “helps round out the argument that Homo sapiens [at Blombos
The Guardian unveils the bonnethead as the first confirmed omnivorous shark species:
… Read the rest “First shark species confirmed to eat everything – even veggies.”Scientists at the University of California in Irvine, and Florida International University in Miami,
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This is a view of one of the automatic music-making devices collected by the Centre International de la Mécanique d’Art (CIMA), a Swiss museum of music boxes and … Read the rest “Science Art: Pipes and playing-drum of a “Leierkasten” hand-drawn organ, by Rama”
Science Daily reports (factually) on a UC Berkeley study that reveals how the feedback we get makes us so certain about our wrong beliefs:
… Read the rest “We stick to false beliefs because reactions matter more than evidence.”“If you think you know a lot about something,
Science Daily asks a strange question and the University of Exeter gets a strange answer. At night, when the zookeeper is asleep, what do flamingos *really* do?:
… Read the rest “What do captive flamingos do at night?”“For lots of species
Science Direct has a social media study from psychologists at Toronto’s York University and Adelaide’s Flinders University, who’ve found that women feel worse about… Read the rest “Posting selfies damages your self-image.”
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This image is from the Public Domain Review’s essay, “The Poetry of Victorian Science,” which is as much up this site’s alley as anything on … Read the rest “Science Art: Detail from the bookplate of the English bibliographer, paleontologist and geologist Charles Davies Sherborn, 1890”
Science News says the little tubes help immune cells travel from bone marrow to injured parts of the brain membrane:
… Read the rest “Just discovered: Tiny tunnels that connect your brain to your skull.”In mice, inflammatory immune cells use these previously hidden channels
Nature says the earthquake prophet is IN. Or in the machine at least. For the first time, a machine-learning system beat human experts at figuring out where tremors would hit following a … Read the rest “AI successfully predicts earthquake aftershocks.”
Not the usual science-mag fare, but yesterday USA Today had a story that’s sort of about business and sort of about unintended consequences of cutting-edge technology in the kitchen…… Read the rest “Meat by law, not by lab.”
From the Astronomy Picture of the Day description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Stripping ESO 137-001, a Hubble/Chandra composite image of a spiral galaxy.”This image combines NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations with data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. As
SONG: “Taste the Wind”.
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SOURCE: Nature, 13 Aug 2018, “Spacecraft sets off to make humanity’s closest approach to the Sun”, as used in the post… Read the rest “SONG: Taste the Wind”
Researchers from the UK’s University of Sheffield and Manchester Metropolitan University have taken a closer look at what’s really going on with all those hugely popular,… Read the rest “Chilling out: Starting to study the physiology of ASMR”
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