Science Art: Major John Wesley Powell’s Boat, the Emma Dean, 1871.
Click to embiggen Major John Wesley Powell was a soldier and explorer, a geologist and a professor who led the first government expedition down the […]
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SONG: Adria
SONG: “Adria” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science, 6 September 2019, “Geologists uncover history of lost continent buried beneath Europe,” as used in the post […]
Science Art: Lower Bagshot Clays, Nr. Wareham, 1868
An image from an 1868 book, On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata, which was the subject of a collection in the Public Domain […]
Geologists explore a lost continent hidden under Southern Europe.
Science reveals the Atlantis-like story of Greater Adria, a continent the size of Greenland that vanished 140 million years ago, not under the sea but […]
SONG: Built On Sand
SONG: “Built on Sand” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 2 July 2019, “Time is running out for sand,” as used in the post “We’re […]
We’re running out of… sand?
Nature says that our need for silicon – the main substance in computer chips, as well as glass windows, bottles, and things like bricks and […]
People can sense the Earth’s magnetic field.
But can we navigate by it? Science News reports on the new finding that, like birds, humans appear to have “magnetoreception abilities,” sensing directions by […]
Giant impact crater discovered under Greenland’s ice.
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 […]
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 […]
AI successfully predicts earthquake aftershocks.
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 […]
Science Art: Fall des Meteors am 9 Juni 1866, by Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger
Click to embiggen Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger was an Austrian mineralogist who during his career helped mining engineers dig better mines and looked at rocks […]
De Beers sells synthetic diamonds.
The Guardian reveals that De Beers, the monolithic diamond firm (which has made artificial scarcity its business model for the better part of a century […]
Science Art: Cross-Section of a Typical Volcano, from Minor Mining Encyclopedia
Click to embiggen What’s inside a Ukranian volcano. Or most volcanoes, wherever the are. From a Ukranian encyclopedia for Ukrainian miners (ISBN 966-7804-14-3).
SONG: Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons
SONG: “Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Incredible ‘Hypatia’ Stone Contains Compounds Not Found in the Solar System”, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan 2018, as […]
Hypatia: A stone older than the solar system
Popular Mechanics takes a long look at what, at first glance, might easily be dismissed as another Egyptian desert pebble – but is, in fact, […]