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Scientific illustration of portugugese man-of-war and tongued sarsia, medusans living near the ocean's surface in amorphous and tentacled splendor.

Science Art: Portuguese Man-Of-War, Tongued Sarsia, by Philip Henry Gosse

6 April 2025 grant 0

This image comes from Philip Henry Gosse’s A Year at the Shore, specifically, the month of October. (The year isn’t specified, but the book was published in 1865.)

Gosse was… Read the rest “Science Art: Portuguese Man-Of-War, Tongued Sarsia, by Philip Henry Gosse”

Scientific illustration of a mudskipper emerging from the water and looking out in air, with diagrams of mudskipper eyeballs and eye positioning.

Science Art: Periophthalmus koelreuteri, 1942.

31 March 2025 grant 0

This is a mudskipper who is being drawn here solely for the qualities of its bulbous, beautiful eyes.

The illustration is from page 453 of The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation by … Read the rest “Science Art: Periophthalmus koelreuteri, 1942.”

The smell of Venus de Milo

28 March 2025 grant 0

NPR reports on new findings for classical works of art. It’s pretty well known now that the stark white of ancient Greek marble statues was originally a lot more colorful when they … Read the rest “The smell of Venus de Milo”

Krill sniff penguin poop

26 March 2025 grant 0

And, says National Geographic, it makes them take evasive maneuvers, ready to dodge their Antarctic predators:

In Antarctica’s Palmer Station lab, scientists put wild-caught krill

… Read the rest “Krill sniff penguin poop”

AI can’t beat Pokémon

26 March 2025 grant 0

Something for your inner 12-year-old to feel superior about, as published in Ars Technica. Anthropic’s Claude AI, pretty helpful at summarizing documents and parsing transcripts,… Read the rest “AI can’t beat Pokémon”

Scientific illustration of Abraham Lincoln's face compared to a sampling of "Old American" family members.

Science Art: Lincoln’s Measurements, compared with “Old Americans,” 1953 (detail).

24 March 2025 grant 0

This is part of a graphic from a 1953 issue of Natural History, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History’s magazine. The article it’s illustrating is about taking a life mask… Read the rest “Science Art: Lincoln’s Measurements, compared with “Old Americans,” 1953 (detail).”

Far side of the moon’s fiery past.

21 March 2025 grant 0

Space reveals that the far side of the moon was once a vast, glowing ocean of magma, according to samples retrieved by a Chinese lunar lander:

The Chang’e 6 mission launched in early

… Read the rest “Far side of the moon’s fiery past.”

Alcohol and cancer

20 March 2025 grant 0

Nature chats with a few researchers about something that’s been known for more than 30 years but is still not really widely accepted – that there’s a demonstrated link… Read the rest “Alcohol and cancer”

Scientific illustration of vast, mighty Olympus Mons stretching for miles and miles across the red-brown surface of Mars, as seen by a stereoscopic camera but rendered in 2D. www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54371099685/sizes/o/ Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

Science Art: Mars, Olympus Mons near the terminator, Andrea Luck, 2025

18 March 2025 grant 0

This is the largest volcano in our solar system, as far as anybody knows — the mighty Olympus Mons, as snapped by the ESA Mars Express mission’s HRSC, or High-Resolution Stereo… Read the rest “Science Art: Mars, Olympus Mons near the terminator, Andrea Luck, 2025”

TechDirt is a democracy blog.

14 March 2025 grant 0

Have I cited TechDirt here before? I’m pretty sure I have. Anyway, in a sign of the weird times today, they’ve just come out and said that because they’re an outlet for … Read the rest “TechDirt is a democracy blog.”

100 days with a titanium heart

14 March 2025 grant 0

Nature reports on a new record from the transplant waiting list, with an Australian patient who spent 100 days waiting for a donor organ with a mechanical heart made of titanium pumping in… Read the rest “100 days with a titanium heart”

Scientific illustration of air traffic control reading a plane's position on an instrument panel, while radar waves bounce in graphic zig-zags off an airplane flying high over a mountain range.

Science Art: Opportunities for Design & Development Engineers…, 1966.

12 March 2025 grant 0

This is the illustration from a full-page ad from the Hughes Aircraft Company in the Jan/Feb 1966 issue of Information Display magazine.

This isn’t selling a product — at least… Read the rest “Science Art: Opportunities for Design & Development Engineers…, 1966.”

The pigbutt worm: a marine mystery.

6 March 2025 grant 0

National Geographic marvels at a recently discovered sea creature named, due to its bizarrely voluptuous curves and clefts, the pigbutt worm:

Such was the case in 2001 when experts from

… Read the rest “The pigbutt worm: a marine mystery.”

AI to translate cat faces.

5 March 2025 grant 0

Nature: Scientific Reports wants you to know why your cat is making faces at you. They’ve published a study that uses artificial intelligence to decipher “CatFACS codings”… Read the rest “AI to translate cat faces.”

Scientific illustration of a giant telescope from the 1800s, showing a few well-dressed science fans walking on to the tower that is the telescope.

Science Art: The Great Paris Reflector, 1898.

3 March 2025 grant 0

This is an image from The New Astronomy, a textbook of space sciences I found on archive.org.

It’s one of what was at the time the largest telescopes ever built, a reflector that used… Read the rest “Science Art: The Great Paris Reflector, 1898.”

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