Science Art: Whelp of the Northern Panther (Felix concolor), 1842.
That is a kitten. A panther kitten. Offspring of the catamount. Doesn’t look all that happy to have its picture engraved. On a digital device, […]
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Science Art: MOON: For the Benefit of Humanity, 2023
It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreScience Art: Bubble chamber with colour enhanced tracks, 2026
This is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreScience Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.
Starfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
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Science Art: Sun not in Plane of Moon’s Orbit – Eclipses Impossible, etc., 1898
This is an illustration — two illustrations, actually — from A New Astronomy for Beginners by David P. Todd. It’s actually an illustration of a […]
Science Art: X-2 After Drop from B-50 Mothership, 1957.
Off we go…. Here’s some cutting-edge technology from 1957 which, frankly, is still pretty impressive. The Bell Labs X-2 is a rocket-plane that flew humans […]
Science Art: MeerKAT telescopes, 2018
They do look a little like meerkats, these big African satellite dishes. This is a photo from the Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKAO) / South […]
SONG: I Am Your Library
SONG: “I Am Your Library”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Science Daily, 25 Mar 2024, “New archive of ancient human brains […]
Science Art: Back Cover Detail, THE MIND, 1965.
I think this is a brain, but it might just be a maze. This is a small icon that appears on the lower left corner […]
Science Art: Human Factors: Scanning Male and Standing Female, 1964.
This had to have been meant slightly tongue-in-cheek at the time… hadn’t it? Bespectacled man, meet Vitruvian lady. The cartoon couple are from an ad […]
Science Art: Amoeba. Actinophrys. by Philip Henry Gosse.
This is a scientific illustration done as a paper collage; that is, Philip Gosse took a sheet of paper, painted it as black as space, […]
Science Art: Pianta di Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1758.
It’s a map. An old map of an even older city. This is Piranesi’s map of ancient Rome (“and Forma Urbis”) from Le Antichità Romane, […]
Science Art: Four Phymata species from “Notas Sobre Phymatidae Neotropicales II,” October 1951.
An illustration of four ambush bugs from Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Or parts of ambush bugs. At […]
SONG: Great Big Love
SONG: “Great Big Love”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on The Guardian, 28 Feb 2024, “Humpback sex photographed for first time – […]
Science Art: HURRICANE FRAN – NARA – 17393787, by NASA.
Pictures of a storm from space. Big hurricanes are big! Fran was a Category 3 major hurricane – so a big storm, but far from […]
Science Art: Relative Position of Observer and Observed in Direct Ophthalmoscopy, Arthur W. Head, 1917.
You gotta get right up in there if you really want to see what’s going on in those eyes. This is an illustration from a […]
Science Art: Earth by Henry De la Beche, from Researches in Theoretical Geology, 1834.
This depiction of Earth might be the first such image of our planet as seen from space. No human (as far as we know) had […]
Science Art: Styxosaurus and Xiphactinus/i>, by ABelov2014.
Styxosaurus is, or was, an elasmosaur – an undersea predator with a long neck and sharp teeth, all the better for grabbing ammonites and prehistoric […]