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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SONG: “Circuits in the Sand” (penitential cover)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for last month’s… Read the rest “SONG: Circuits in the Sand (penitential cover)”
Smithsonian seems to be blaming the (ahem) efficiency of “least-effort strategies” on the fall of Homo erectus, modern humans’ recent ancestor:
… Read the rest “Was Homo erectus too lazy to survive? Really?”In a statement, lead
Eight years of observations, from 1908 to 1915, went into this chart. We’re looking at deviations from geographic points, and the percentage of geostrophic wind… Read the rest “Science Art: Geostrophic and Surface-Winds at Southport, 1931”
Nature reports on the Parker Solar Probe, a ship with a mission to closer than we’ve ever been to the Sun, even dipping into the solar atmosphere:
… Read the rest “Tasting the solar wind.”The spacecraft lifted off from Cape
Yes, it’s still controversial, but it looks like (according to The Guardian‘s reporting) that successfully lowering your salt intake might – oops – increase… Read the rest “Cut out cutting out the salt”
Popular Science looks at Mary Jane, gut problems and the mechanism behind cannabis helping make IBS better:
… Read the rest “We’ve figured out why marijuana helps inflammation.”A new study from University of Massachusetts and University of Bath researchers
This is a hand axe made by prehistoric humans – but the image is a historical relic in its own right. It represents the first time a modern human (in this case, John Frere) was able to prove… Read the rest “Science Art: Hoxne Hand Axe, by Thomas Underwood and John Frere”
That is, if we’re counting Greenland as the New World. OK, maybe I’m stretching here – but anyway, AP has new findings that show the Vikings left some of their westernmost… Read the rest “Vikings left the New World because the walrus market went bust”
The high, whistling hiss you hear rising ever so slightly in volume in the background is the sound of white-collar jobs evaporating. Wired only begins to discuss what it means to have a bot… Read the rest “An AI is writing for Wikipedia.”
Can’t beat Science News‘ subhead for this story, which cautions us, if we want to avoid the meningitis-like symptoms, to “wash produce carefully and not eat raw snails… Read the rest “Rat lungworm disease spreads to American humans.”
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In honor of the unusually good Mars viewing available right now, here’s a year’s worth of Martian weather images.
I found this on the Planetary Society’s… Read the rest “Science Art: A Year of Mars Weather”
Science Alert tells us more about the researchers from University of Texas Medical Branch and their subjects – young pigs who had successful, non-rejected transplants of bioengineered… Read the rest “Lab-grown lungs have drawn breath in living pigs.”
Currently, my house is being overwhelmed by millipedes – but I’m not sure I’m ready to embrace the solution suggested by this Science Daily story. Seems that lemurs … Read the rest “Millipedes are medicine.”
Science reveals the strange similarities, found by archaeologist Scott Fitzpatrick of the University of Oregon, between the very modern cryptocurrency markets and the very ancient … Read the rest “The cryptocurrency of ancient Yap.”
If you want to give your old-fashioned lover your heart. Or kidney.
Ah, tradition.
Cecile Dachary does all manner of feminine arts, always with a logical (or, really, “-logical”)… Read the rest “Science Art: Anatomical Embroidery by Cecile Dachary”
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