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Month: June 2025

Scientific illustration of an Anglo-Saxon burial, a ship burial from before the age of the Vikings, shadowy figures of warriors, kinsmen, or household servants lining up alongside a wooden ship, preparing to cover it with earth.The lotd's body is inside it.

Science Art: Figures preparing the Sutton Hoo ship for burial, Craig Williams

29 June 2025 grant 0

This is an illustration from the British Museum’s Sutton Hoo Collection, studying the grave (and buried treasures) of a “Very Important Person” laid to rest in the … Read the rest “Science Art: Figures preparing the Sutton Hoo ship for burial, Craig Williams”

SONG: The Temples Resurrect These Fallen Trees.

25 June 2025 grant 0

SONG: “The Temples Resurrect These Fallen Trees”. (OGG version here.)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Thousands of endangered trees preserved for centuries inside… Read the rest “SONG: The Temples Resurrect These Fallen Trees.”

Eating sea otters is giving wolves mercury poisoning.

23 June 2025 grant 0

Mongabay reports on a survey of data going back 25 years that show Alaskan coastal wolves have changed their diet from deer to sea otters — and have acquired toxic levels of mercury … Read the rest “Eating sea otters is giving wolves mercury poisoning.”

Scientific illustration of Surveyor-1, a nearly abstract collection of angles, legs, boxes, and support struts done in monochrome black and white, a photograph rendered as a ghostly stencil of a spacecraft.

Science Art: Detail from Tinsley Laboratories ad, 1966.

23 June 2025 grant 0

That’s a closeup of the Surveyor-1 satellite printed above an image of the Gemini orbital capsule, with the words “WE GAVE” (image of Surveyor-1) “a mirror and”… Read the rest “Science Art: Detail from Tinsley Laboratories ad, 1966.”

Honda has entered Space Race 2.0

20 June 2025 grant 0

The Verge reports on a new competitor to Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic in the reusable rocket game – one with a slightly longer legacy of success in mass-produced mechanical-engineering… Read the rest “Honda has entered Space Race 2.0”

Gigantic, ghostly crustaceans could live over half the ocean floor.

20 June 2025 grant 0

New Scientist plumbs the depths in search of foot-long white shrimp-like creatures that might be one of the most populous creatures on the bottom of the ocean, but about which we know very… Read the rest “Gigantic, ghostly crustaceans could live over half the ocean floor.”

China’s undersea station.

19 June 2025 grant 0

Someone in China hasn’t watched Kristen Stewart in UNDERWATER… or so Sustainability Times leads me to believe. They’re reporting (rather breathlessly) on a “deep-sea… Read the rest “China’s undersea station.”

Scientific illustration of a mesonychid, a "wolf with hooves." It's an ivory-colored skull with rounded jaw and prominent, conical canine teeth against a black background. The curvature of the prehistoric jaws is almost like a hungry smile.

Science Art: Harpagolestes immanis, by Ryan Somma.

15 June 2025 grant 0

This is a picture of a mesonychid, a family of prehistoric creatures known as “wolves with hooves.”

I got the idea to post this from a Bluesky post by Riley “Resting Dino… Read the rest “Science Art: Harpagolestes immanis, by Ryan Somma.”

Scientific illustration of Venus transiting in front of the Sun, as captured by the Solar Dynamics Observetory satellite, a flaming metallic orb girdled by a series of perfectly circular silhouettes making a diagonal line from the upper left to the middle right of the image.

Science Art: Transit of Venus in 2012.

9 June 2025 grant 0

This is Venus, moving in front of the Sun. Technically, I suppose it’s a lot of Venuses, or a chain of a lot of pictures of Venus.

It was made by NASA/SDO, AIA, or NASA’s Solar Dynamics… Read the rest “Science Art: Transit of Venus in 2012.”

Wild cockatoos use public water fountains

7 June 2025 grant 0

Smithsonian shares some unusual observations from Australia, where wild cockatoos have learned to operate the controls of water fountains in public parks to get a quick drink:

Barbara

… Read the rest “Wild cockatoos use public water fountains”

Ancient megafarm found in Michigan.

6 June 2025 grant 0

PhysOrg reports on an archaeological discovery in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, which seems to have been the site of a 1,000-year-old Native American farming complex more than 330… Read the rest “Ancient megafarm found in Michigan.”

The temple as refuge … for endangered species.

6 June 2025 grant 0

Nature reports on a study from China that found thousands of endangered trees growing on the grounds of religious monuments across the country:

It is an example of “where ecological and

… Read the rest “The temple as refuge … for endangered species.”
Scientific illustration of a white plume moth, long legs, very white against a black background.

Science Art: Pterophorus pentadactyla MHNT, by Didier Descouens

2 June 2025 grant 0

This is an image of a white plume moth, a photograph taken of a specimen in the Muséum de Toulouse in August of 2011. The moths really look like this in life, too. But this one was on display in … Read the rest “Science Art: Pterophorus pentadactyla MHNT, by Didier Descouens”

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