Science Art: NASA’s Chandra, Webb Combine for Arresting Views (Pillars of Creation), 2023
This is an image made by combining visible light (from the Hubble and ESO orbiting telescopes) and invisible infrared and X-ray imagery (from the Webb, […]
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Science Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
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Science Art: Habitus images of Chimairacoris lakshmiae, 2015.
This is a plant bug. That’s the technical term – it’s part of that group of insects called “true bugs,” the family Miridae; plant bugs […]
Science Art: Intercepting Well, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, by R.S. Bross, 1882.
This is an illustration of a public waterwork taken from the pages of A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering: relating to the hydrology, […]
SONG: In the Years Before A/C
SONG: “In the Years Before A/C”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: National Park Service, 1 May 2023, “National Park archeologists find remains of an underwater hospital and […]
Science Art: Painted Bunting, by John James Audubon, 1841
These are painted buntings, “1.2.3. males in different states of plumage and 4. female” in the branches of a chickasaw wild plum, as displayed in […]
Science Art: Causerie sur la Peche Fluviale en Chine, 1909.
Do two sampans make a catamaran? Looks like they did for this Chinese fisherman at the dawn of the last century, angling on the river […]
Science Art: The Engineer’s Sketch-Book, 1508 & 1509.
Two machines, or parts of machines. These are a “Four-Plunger Valve” and “A starter valve” from The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances […]
Science Art: Implantatet placeras under huden bakom örat…, 2008.
This image, by Wikimedia Commons user Seslami~commonswiki, shows an implantable electronic device that allows some people to hear, or to hear better. What we’re seeing […]
Science Art: Skull of Trinocromerum willistoni, Dorothea Franzen,1944.
This is the head of a plesiosaur from Kansas, back in the day when Kansas was an inland sea. Or a picture from back in […]
SONG: Secret Dragons
SONG: “Secret Dragons”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: The Guardian 2 March 2023, “‘Like a little dragon’: new gecko species discovered on rugged Queensland island,” as used […]
Science Art: From Four Roses des Vents, by Vincenzo Coronelli.
This is one of four compass roses created by Vincenzo Coronelli, a 17th-century cartographer. I found them all on Wikimedia Commons, which got them from […]
Science Art: Male Wood Duck, by Abbott H. Thayer, 1904.
This is half of one color plate from a book intended to show how “showy” coloration can actually make some creatures harder to spot in […]
Science Art: Loess Sediments Thickness, by Przemysław Mroczek, 2020.
This map shows where silt was laid down untold ages ago. According to its brief description on Wikimedia Commons, it depicts: Loess sediments distribution and […]
Science Art: Crew-5’s Nighttime Splashdown, by NASA/Keegan Barber, 2023
SpaceX Dragon Endurance returns to Earth on the night of March 11, 2023. Specifically, it’s just after 9:00 p.m. in the waters off Tampa, Florida. […]
SONG: “Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy” (a penitential Werk cover)
SONG: “Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no source in scientific research; it’s a penitential cover of a song by […]