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Scientific illustration of a medieval submarine, the "Rotterdam Ship," designed to ram battleships underwater in the Age of Sail.

Science Art: The “Rotterdam Ship” was one of the earliest submarines…, 1934

14 July 2025 grant 0

This image is actually much older than 1934; it’s just that that is when William Beebe published it (courtesy of the New York Public Library) in his book Half Mile Down, which is both… Read the rest “Science Art: The “Rotterdam Ship” was one of the earliest submarines…, 1934”

Hungry caterpillars eat plastic pollution

12 July 2025 grant 0

IFL Science introduces us to “plastivores” — a species of waxworm caterpillars (often thought of as beehive pests) that get fat gorging themselves on plastic waste… Read the rest “Hungry caterpillars eat plastic pollution”

Shrooms ease cancer-patient depression for two years.

11 July 2025 grant 0

Science Daily looks at an American Cancer Society study that found psilocybin mushrooms can help lift depression symptoms in cancer patients for as long as two years after a single psychedelic… Read the rest “Shrooms ease cancer-patient depression for two years.”

Why fund weird science.

11 July 2025 grant 0

American Scientist provides a spirited defense against funding cuts for research into oddball subjects … by listing a lot of strange projects that suddenly led to world-changing… Read the rest “Why fund weird science.”

Looking Denisovans in the face for the first time.

10 July 2025 grant 0

Cell reconstructs a prehistoric face, thanks to DNA analysis of an unusual skull that proved to be the first-known skull of a Denisovan, the other prehistoric human besides Neanderthals… Read the rest “Looking Denisovans in the face for the first time.”

Scientific illustration of a whale louse, or whale lice, in a symmetrical collage of spiny legs and many details of heads, growth stages, body parts.

Science Art: Cyamus boopis, Lütken, 1895.

7 July 2025 grant 0

Cyamis boopis is one of the cyamidae better known as a whale louse.

This particular species is from Scandinavia, as illustrated in the book An account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short… Read the rest “Science Art: Cyamus boopis, Lütken, 1895.”

USDA finds what caused America’s biggest bee die-off.

3 July 2025 grant 0

Science shares research that identifies a massive killer of honeybees — a virus that’s carried by pesticide-resistant mites:

U.S. beekeepers had a disastrous winter. Between

… Read the rest “USDA finds what caused America’s biggest bee die-off.”
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.”

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