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Month: August 2025

Scientific illustration of a video camera tube, a cylindrical electronic component, drawn in shades of gray over a background of Chinese writing, mathematical formulae, and typed computer readouts.

Science Art: If Resolution and Recognizability are Important to You…, 1966

31 August 2025 grant 0

A General Electrodynamics Corporation ad for a television camera vidicon, a video camera tube – a thing that works like an old-fashioned television screen, scanning a ray of electrons… Read the rest “Science Art: If Resolution and Recognizability are Important to You…, 1966”

“Brain coral terrain” tells a story of Martian history.

26 August 2025 grant 0

The Planetary Science Institute reports on what space missions have learned from studying a strange, sinuous series of formations on the surface of Mars that resemble the curves and folds… Read the rest ““Brain coral terrain” tells a story of Martian history.”

Scientific illustration of an electronic brain, a glowing network of light spilling up from a city and into a colossal floating brain overhead, blue and purple lights against a black sky.

Science Art: How ChatGPT visualizes itself.webp, by ChatGPT

25 August 2025 grant 0

Yes, this is AI art. But it is AI art that is by AI and about AI.

From the image description on Wikimedia Commons:

ChatGPT 4 generated this image based on the following prompt: “Generate

… Read the rest “Science Art: How ChatGPT visualizes itself.webp, by ChatGPT”

SONG: Jet Lagged

25 August 2025 grant 0

SONG: “Jet Lagged”. (OGG version here.)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Depression linked to ‘internal jet lag’, study finds,” University … Read the rest “SONG: Jet Lagged”

Our cannibal grandparents

22 August 2025 grant 0

PhysOrg shares evidence that Neolithic humans — the farmers of the Stone Age — were a lot more into eating each other than previously thought:

Francesc Marginedas at the Catalan

… Read the rest “Our cannibal grandparents”

The covid pandemic rewired teens’ brains

19 August 2025 grant 0

I mean, parents already kinda know this, but now Translational Psychiatry has studied (and is continuing to study) a group of teens from before the pandemic to now and found that the stress… Read the rest “The covid pandemic rewired teens’ brains”

Scientific illustration of many fish, arrayed in splendor: sharks, rays, skates, lungfish, anglerfish, sea horses, porcupine fish, so many fish.

Science Art: Poissons (B), by Adolphe Millot .

18 August 2025 grant 0

The fish, the fishes of the world, including at least one extinct fish (#21, Ceratodus, the coelacanth-looking one down there on the bottom left). There are remoras, cow fish, sturgeon … Read the rest “Science Art: Poissons (B), by Adolphe Millot .”

DNA reveals Africans in medieval England.

15 August 2025 grant 0

Anthropology.net looks at two 7th-century graves from different parts of England — Kent and Dorset — that prove African-descended people were living in England practically… Read the rest “DNA reveals Africans in medieval England.”

Sea star killer found. Now what?

11 August 2025 grant 0

bioGraphic celebrates the discovery, at long last, of the phenomenon behind a mysterious wave of rather horrific sea star deaths on America’s Pacific Coast. Now, researchers are… Read the rest “Sea star killer found. Now what?”

Scientific illustration of three goldfish, iridescent in gold, orange, and silver, with the partially adorable and partially monstrous faces of overweight pugs: pursed lips, full cheeks, and bulging eyes.

Science Art: Long-Tsing-Yu or Les Yeux des Dragon

11 August 2025 grant 0

These are some of the first goldfish ever seen in Europe.

The image (which I found in a great Public Domain Review article) came from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine, written in … Read the rest “Science Art: Long-Tsing-Yu or Les Yeux des Dragon ”

Depression is a form of jet lag.

8 August 2025 grant 0

Or maybe vice versa. At any rate, the University of Sydney has published findings that demonstrate depression is physiologically really close to jet lag, and both problems seem to involve… Read the rest “Depression is a form of jet lag.”

Scientific illustration of a rocket launching in the 1950s, metal scaffolding and exhaust clouds, a white tower rising skyward, gleaming in black and white.

Science Art: First missile launched at Cape Canaveral, July 24, 1950.

4 August 2025 grant 0

A photo from the San Diego Air and Space Museum’s collection of Images from NASA/Cape Canaveral.

Here are a couple of quotes from a recent Florida Today story describing the launch:… Read the rest “Science Art: First missile launched at Cape Canaveral, July 24, 1950.”

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