Science Art: Leavitt Bulldog body diagram, 2013
As most folks know, today’s English bulldog is an animal that has been, as they say, “overbred.” They have beautiful temperaments as a rule, and […]
anatomy
Science Art: A section through the cochlea in the line of its axis, 1910.
Click to embiggen An inner ear, dear, from The human body; an account of its structure and activities and the conditions of its healthy working, […]
Science Art: Structures of Brain (Взаиморасположение структур мозга – зрительный анализатор), by Coxer
Click to embiggen A brain with its structures, including the eyes and the olfactory bulb, labeled in Russian. The thinking part. Found on Wikimedia Commons.
SONG: Cluster Anatomy
SONG: “Cluster Anatomy” [Download] . (I made an .ogg version, too.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News, 2 June 2020, “A new 3-D map illuminates the […]
Science Art: The normal conduction system of the heart, by Rob Kreuger.
Just looking at heart pictures. No reason. Nice when they work right. Image from Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: From Theosophia Practica, by Johann Georg Gichtel, 1696
Click to embiggen A secret body around our visible body, from the 1600s. A subtle anatomy. Planetary correspondences. This is where we get the idea […]
Science Art: Heart normal parasternal long axis echocardiography view by Patrick J. Lynch
Click to embiggen This is an image of an image of the heart – or at least an image of heart imaging. An echocardiogram done […]
Your tongue can smell.
Science Daily reveals the existence of olfactory receptors – the nerves that give us a sense of smell – located on our tongues: “Our research […]
Science Art: Ossicula Organi Auditus Diversorium Animalium (Aural-Organ Bones of Diverse Animals), by Athanasius Kircher
A close-up of the tiny ear-bones of a few kinds of animals, including human beings. This is a detail of a page from Musurgia Universalis, […]
Science Art: Zanclus cornatus and Acanthurus nigra, by Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta.
Click to embiggen Two fish from one of the first collections of X-ray photographs, published in Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen, 1896. From […]
Invisible mice reveal how bodies are put together – at remarkably tiny levels.
Nature takes a closer look the way different physical systems connection – the way the brain, the muscles, the blood vessels relate to one another […]
Just discovered: Tiny tunnels that connect your brain to your skull.
Science News says the little tubes help immune cells travel from bone marrow to injured parts of the brain membrane: In mice, inflammatory immune cells […]
Science Art: Anatomical Embroidery by Cecile Dachary
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 […]
Extinct lizard had four eyes.
LiveScience introduces us to Saniwa ensidens, a now-extinct monitor lizard from Wyoming that had an eye on either side of its head and two more […]
Our noses were shaped by the climate.
Science Daily sniffs out how weather patterns affect the shape of our family’s noses: “We are interested in recent human evolution and what explains the […]