We’re getting bigger: “It will be harder to feed 9 billion people in 2050 than it would be today.”
Gemini Research News has some bad news for the Earth’s growing population. It turns out that our farms will face some trouble because we’re going […]
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
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Science Art: Cymatics, by Nigel Stanford
I’m not really that much of an electronica fan – at least not danceable electronic music – but this video is kind of awesome. I […]
HPV came from Neanderthal nookie.
Discover traces the ancestry of a persistent sexually transmitted disease, and finds that the human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer probably came from modern […]
The world’s oldest animal picture is on a cave wall in Borneo.
The Indonesian jungle does not seem like the best environment to preserve works of art, but, as The New York Times reports, for more than […]
We were consuming chocolate 5,300 years ago.
Nature pushes the date of the very first hot cocoa back by a millennium, with evidence of the dawn of chocolate in 3,300 BCE: Until […]
Science Art: Lidar-derived digital surface and elevation models of a stream channel, by the USGS
Click to embiggen This is the earth under a stream inside a forest in Iowa, with all the trees and the water digitally removed. Or […]
The very first vertebrates came from the beach.
Science News looks back at the shallow coastal waters of eons past, when the wading was comfortably uncrowded and the first creatures with spinal cords […]
Parasitic wasp makes zombie cockroaches.
That’s a string of creepiness there, isn’t it? Everybody knows (I hope) the way some parasitic wasps turn caterpillars into living meat lockers for their […]
Weird life force: Quantum-entangled bacteria.
Scientific American reveals how some strange research is bringing the weirdness of the subatomic world – where things can be (more or less) in two […]
Science Art: Electricity: condenser jars, an electro-static generator, and a vase with flowers, c. 1850.
Click to embiggen. A goache painting from the Wellcome Collection. A rather polite setting of research equipment with a bouquet. No idea whose, or what […]
A peek at the quantum internet: secrets and superpositions
Nature speculates about the ways quantum computing will change the way the internet works, with unbreakable privacy and more: The first stages promise virtually unbreakable […]
SONG: Picture on Your Phone
SONG: “Picture on Your Phone”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science Direct, Vol. 27, Dec. 2018, “’Selfie’ harm: Effects on mood and body image in young women”, […]
Spacecraft sniffer makes sure NASA’s missions come up roses.
Chemistry World introduces us to a particularly talented NASA veteran, George Aldrich – an expert smeller whose olfactory sensitivity ensures that bad smells don’t disrupt […]
Science Art: Introverted Millipede (Magukbaforduló ikerszelvényesek).
Click to embiggen This is an old, old fellow named Polydesmus. One of the first land animals there ever was. From the image’s description on […]
Exercise might be the next Alzheimer’s therapy (or might lead to it).
Scientific American reveals how a new look at exercise’s effects in the brain might show the way to a one-two punch against Alzheimer’s disease: Exercise […]