Science Art: Pigtailed Baboon, 1811.
According to the accompanying text, this illustration depicts a baboon species “easily distinguished by its tail, which is four inches long, slender, and exactly like […]
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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…
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SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
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: Bunsen burner flame types, by Arthur Jan Fijałkowski (WarX).
The flame from a Bunsen burner (a standard piece of chemistry equipment; you might have used one in high school) can change color and height […]
SONG: False Social Reality
SONG: “False Social Reality”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature Communications 23 Aug 2022, “Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by […]
Science Art: New Zealand’s South Island, by Samantha Cristoforetti, 2022.
Here’s a picture of a distinctive bit of geography. There are hobbits down there, and members of Split Enz and The Chills, and some of […]
Science Art: Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP): GAF’s Gift to Women, 1967.
This is an ad for a chemical that seemed like a miracle in the 60s (at least to this marketing department), but is one of […]
Science Art: Anglosuchus, by James Erxleben, c. 1877.
These are the skulls of two English crocodiles. They were English before the first Anglo-Saxons arrived on that island’s shores. Of course, they also went […]
Science Art: Page 219 from The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances and details…, 1890
This is a page of assorted parts – gizmos, “contrivances,” what-have-yous – for doing things in machines. It’s from a catalog of such bits and […]
Science Art: Bellia arenaria, from The Annals and magazine of natural history, Series 2, Vol. 7, #37, 1850.
This is an illustration of a sea creature that, at the time, was (not exactly) new to science. It was new to British science when […]
Science Art: Woodhouse & Rawson Electrical Lighting & Apparatus ad, 1890
Advertisements from the 1800s are usually visually striking, but this one is really something else – from the loopy lettering to the drama of the […]
Science Art: Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil…, Etienne Klein, 2022.
Maybe you saw this image on Twitter with a blurb like: Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil, située à 4,2 […]
Science Art: Holothuria tubulosa (Sjogurka stor ugglan, a sea cucumber) from Nordisk Familjebok, 1919.
The sea cucumber doesn’t look like much until you really look at it. They’re complicated little creatures. They have complicated little parts. In this case, […]
Science Art: 20alpha-Dihydroprogesterone 3D spacefill, by Jynto, 2011.
Progesterone is a hormone released by ovaries. It’s made from cholesterol, which might seem odd. It’s a key component in birth-control pills and in hormone […]
SONG: Octopus Gloves
SONG: “Octopus Gloves”. (OGG version) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News 13 July 2022, “This octopus-inspired glove helps humans grip slippery objects,” as used in the […]
Science Art: Cetorhinus maximus, by Greg Skomal
Basking sharks are really big. As fish go, only whale sharks get bigger, and only then sometimes. And both of them eat plankton, not sailors. […]
Science Art: Fig 61, A Voyage in Space, “Fragments from the Rings Falling into the Sun,” 1915.
This is an illustration of a defunct theory. The idea being put forward explains sunspots as the impacts of meteors, which come from the rings […]