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 […]
anatomy
Science Art: Mammiferes, Pl. 3, from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, 1849
Click to embiggen Behold, the seat of consciousness and feeling. Maybe not the source, but the seat. From Charles Dessalines D’Orbigny’s Universal Dictionary of Natural […]
Science Art: Plate 20. – Skeletons of the cross between the English bulldog and bassethound showing contrast in leg length…, 1941
My old dog was a basset. And now there’s a bulldog in my house. I’m not sure how dogs happen, but they do. This is […]
Science Art: Oral Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses – Coronal View exhibit, from Our Body: The Universe Within
Click to embiggen Someone went to the museum today. This has always been one of my favorite bits of human anatomy, the spirals inside our […]
Science Art: Oreille schematique, from Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques, 1893.
Click to embiggen The book Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques is Alphonse Bertillon‘s guide for identifying criminal suspects. These ear dimensions were one way you […]
So we’re shrinking animals and making them transparent. Like, in real life.
Nature Methods has the details on a process that seems totally like 1950s B-movie technology with a 1970s sci-fi name – a system called “ultimate […]
A lab-grown limb (muscle, blood and skin).
New Scientist has photos and video of a severed rat limb… that was never part of any rat’s body. It was grown in a dish: […]
Science Art: From Die Frau als Hausärztin by Anna Fischer-Dückelmann, 1911
This is a naked woman, as seen in 1911 by a German medical expert. The book’s title translates to “The Woman As Family Doctor,” and […]
Science Art: Uterus En Etat De Gestation by Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste
Click to embiggen This one is definitely worth clicking to embiggen. It’s from the very detailed, very large Histoire générale et particulière du développement des […]
Science Art: Figure 3, Transverse Section of a Single Cell by F. Bauer, Esq., F.R.S., 1827.
Click to embiggen Take a deep breath. This is the inside of your lung, seen really closely. At the time his was drawn, we weren’t […]
Science Art: Figure Showing Anterior Ethmoidal Artery, 2013.
Ever feel congested? Here’s where it happens – the paranasal sinuses. These ones are under your eyes. And the artery we’re specifically looking at here […]
Science Art: Two hundred bones form the framework of your body, 1958.
Click to embiggen Tennis, a different perspective. From All About the Human Body, 1958, found in the reference library of Newhouse Design. [via]
Science Art: Panties with uterus print by KnickerRocker (Nichola).
From Etsy. Scientific illustration has profound effects on some people. It surfaces in the unlikeliest places. The same lingerie-maker has some rather comely pelvis print […]
Science Art: Table XXVI: The Circulatory System by Giulio de’ Musi, c. 1565.
Click to embiggen. A smugly skinless man from Bartholomeo Eustachi: Tabulae anatomicae, a series of engravings that were meant to be published in the 1560s, […]
Science Art: Hearts and Lungs by Juan de Valverde, 1598
In which the dissector becomes the dissected as well, sternum reaching upward like a bird’s wings in flight. From Wikimedia Commons.