Cool paint. Literally.
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 […]
Science 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, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreLasers reveal ancient Maya as well-connected, environmentally conscious.
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 […]
Johns Hopkins researchers recommend taking magic mushrooms off Schedule I.
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 […]
Science Art: The Goodrich XH-5 Tomato-Worm Suit
Click to embiggen This might be the greatest contribution gardening ever made to space travel. In the middle of World War II, engineers were trying […]
The oldest animal.
The Guardian pulls back the veil – using fossilized cholesterol, of all things – on what could be the world’s oldest animal – an oval-shaped […]
Japan landed two bouncing rovers on an asteroid.
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 […]
Science Art: Tesla Coil: high-frequency discharge demonstrator, Welch Scientific Company, 1931
Click to embiggen Electrical history from PW Lanier and the Minneapolis Institute of Art: This tabletop Tesla coil was likely made for science classes, producing […]
No song today.
Observing the equinox. Have music (roughly) but no good words… yet. Song and penitential cover coming soon.
Composing the “beep” of the medical monitor.
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 […]
Looks like real-life astronomers found Spock’s home planet right where it was supposed to be.
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?: […]
Tracking a leatherback turtle through Hurricane Florence
Popular Science shows what it takes to get data sometimes – when the enormous marine reptile you affixed your tracking equipment to carries on migrating […]
Science Art: Lunated Nail-Tailed Kangaroo, 1863
Click to embiggen 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 world’s oldest drawing was made with a red ocher crayon.
Science News goes deeper into a rock that bears a cross-hatch pattern made 73,000 years ago in a South African cave: The discovery “helps round […]
First shark species confirmed to eat everything – even veggies.
The Guardian unveils the bonnethead as the first confirmed omnivorous shark species: Scientists at the University of California in Irvine, and Florida International University in […]
Science Art: Pipes and playing-drum of a “Leierkasten” hand-drawn organ, by Rama
Click to embiggen This is a view of one of the automatic music-making devices collected by the Centre International de la Mécanique d’Art (CIMA), a […]