Mars 3 Nil, Mars 1
Emily Lakdawalla has posted a fascinating account, translated from the Russian original, of how a group of space enthusiasts combed images of the surface of Mars. Their aim: to find the Mars 3 lander...
View ArticleIce breaking (with added penguins)
Another time-lapse sequence, this time of the US National Science Foundation's icebreaker the Nathaniel B. Palmer, traveling through the Ross Sea in Antarctica. Pink ice. Blue ice. Penguins. What more...
View ArticleLove in a cold climate
The Wellcome Library blog tells the tale of the Common Cold Unit: Volunteers were kept in strict isolation from the outside world and from others taking part in the trial. But as one CCU press release...
View Article… so they'll nuke us from orbit, just to make sure.
Headline of the Week/Month/Year candidate, courtesy of Popular Science: Space-Born Jellyfish Hate Life On Earth. [Via jwz]
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Beauty of Mathematics
Beauty of Mathematics speaks for itself, preferably in full-screen mode: For the record, I can't begin to vouch for the mathematical formulae in the left hand pane bearing any relationship to the...
View ArticleWatch the ray cats
This week's 99% Invisible podcast discussed recent efforts to figure out how to warn our great-to-the-Nth grandchildren about the risks of nuclear waste being stored at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,...
View ArticleGood, honest muck
The hand print of an 8 year old after playing outside. I think the microbes look beautiful. [Tasha Sturm] pic.twitter.com/L2iIJGfHpg — Ziya Tong (@ziyatong) June 6, 2015 Just think of all the...
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Life is a joyful science
The Duke, the Landscape Architect and the World's Most Ambitious Attempt to Bring the Cosmos to Earth: Last fall, a hand-picked group of the world's top theoretical physicists received an invitation to...
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