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Science Art: <i>What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?</i>, 1963.

Science Art: <i>Cygnus region in emission lines</i>, 2025

Science Art: <i>Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions</i>, by Patrick Lynch

Science Art: <i>Build Your Own Lie Detector</i>, 1955

Science Art: <i>Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County</i>, 2013

Science Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.

This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…

Science Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025

This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…

Science Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch

This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…

SONG: Sleeping Cathedrals

SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…

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, …

Science 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 …

Scientific illustration of a mathematical shape, a circular paraboloid, looking a little like a stained-glass arch or a checkerboard dome standing by a reflecting pool.

Science Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton

11 May 2026 grant 0

This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wikipedia, which also, helpfully, says a […]

Scientific illustration of 19th century apparatus, gears and wheels and tubes, for determining altitude and azimuth. It's all very complicated.

Science Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876

4 May 2026 grant 0

This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically described and illustrated, by Phillip T. Sandhurst, which you can […]

Scientific illustration of solar flares with the Earth to scale, showing how big they are compared to our planet. Orange fronds reaching across a pale purple void toward a small, dark ball.

Science Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.

27 April 2026 grant 0

This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorologist, and a Theosophist mystic who died […]

SONG: We Ate Each Other’s Wings

24 April 2026 grant 0

SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “These roaches form exclusive long-term relationships after eating each other’s wings”, […]

Scientific illustration of the North Pole of Mars, as photographed by a Chinese space probe, looking like a nautilus shell.

Science Art: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck

20 April 2026 grant 0

Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1. “CNSA” is the China National Space […]

Scientific illustration of a moon mission's path from Earth to the moon and back again.

Science Art: Earth-moon Relationship MSC, HOUSTON, TX

13 April 2026 grant 0

This is a line drawing of the Apollo mission’s lunar module reaching the Moon, staying a while, and then coming back home. It’s a few […]

Scientific illustration of microbes in a simplified style, almost like a clothing pattern from the 1970s.

Science Art: Chromista

6 April 2026 grant 0

An illustration from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “Biological Illustration” collection of chromista, which is a proposed kingdom of life. As in animal, vegetable, […]

Scientific illustration of a spider's face as seen under a microscope, rows of eyes symmetrically arrayed over large mandibles.

Science Art: Eyes of Epeira conica x30, 1884

30 March 2026 grant 0

A spider’s face seen at 30-times magnification, from the February 1884 issue of Science Gossip. This is illustrating a sort of study, or perhaps prose […]

SONG: Birds Are Digging

25 March 2026 grant 0

SONG: “Birds Are Digging”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “How A Black Fossil Digger Became a Superstar in the Very White World […]

A dark spacecraft firing four small, glowing engines nears a round, rocky planet or planetoid. Perhaps it is Earth. The sun is small in the distance.

Science Art: OSIRIS-REx after SRC release, 2023

23 March 2026 grant 0

This is a still from an animation showing what a larger spaceship does after firing a small capsule toward Earth. The capsule is filled with […]

Scientific illustration of a stand-pipe, looking like a church steeple against a cloudy sky, a tower rising up to help regulate water flow in a black and white engraving.

Science Art: Stand-Pipe, Boston, 1882

16 March 2026 grant 0

A hydrological edifice. As explained in A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering: relating to the hydrology, hydrodynamics, and practical construction of water works, […]

Scientific illustration of a heart with several kinds of aneurysms in the vessels surrounding the muscle.

Science Art: Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism)…, 1915.

9 March 2026 grant 0

The full caption of this figure reads “Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism) of branches of coronary arteries in a case of anomalous origin of the left […]

Scientific illustration of a commercially available electric switch from 1905, a lever that creates a connection which turns an arc light on or off, indicating if the circuit is live. It's designed for the mains of a house, I think, or at least for wiring entering a building.

Science Art: Modern Electrical Construction, Fig. 58, 1905

2 March 2026 grant 0

This is a switch for “constant current” electricity to go into a building, a “A modern commercial form of this switch,” is what the book […]

Scientific illustration of a human eye, a blue eye looking out from a yellow skull, the pink muscles attaching it to the optic arch of the eye socket.

Science Art: Eye orbit anatomy anterior 2, by Patrick Lynch.

23 February 2026 grant 0

Unblinking, the lidless eye gazes out from its skull, unseeing. I found this anatomical image while browsing through the “Featured Images” collection on Wikimedia Commons. […]

Scientific illustration of a Kentrosaurus, a relative of a Stegosaurus, pale bones on a black background.

Science Art: Kentrosaurus aethiopicus, by H. Zell.

16 February 2026 grant 0

This is an image from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, a German natural history museum, where they have a skeleton of a stegosaurus relative unearthed […]