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Science Art: <i>Mirounga leonina 01</i>, by H. Zell

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: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell

This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …

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…

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 […]

Scientific illustration of scopes, scanners, and cathode-ray equipment from the mid-70s, white line drawings on black background.

Science Art: Cathode Ray Tubes, 1974

9 February 2026 grant 0

An image from an ad from the Jan/Feb 1974 issue of the Journal for the Society for Informational Display. The edition is pretty light on […]

Scientific illustration of the saucer-shaped Curiosity Mars probe, a white circle, descending toward the vast reddish sphere that is Mars, spinning around the Sun.

Science Art: Curiosity Approaching Mars, Artist’s Concept, 2012

2 February 2026 grant 0

Is it strange how much this resembles a 1950s comic-book cover about dashing flying saucer pilots? And we made it real, and we sent it […]

Scientific illustration of... well, it's a diagram of the percentage of people who are "doomed" if they don't get a syphilis test in time. The diagram just happens to look a little like a petri dish, and a little like a centrifuge used in medical testing. It's very Art Deco, with Bauhaus-style faces inside the circle and a very Modernist grotesque typeface.

Science Art: Don’t wait – 70% are doomed, c. 1936

27 January 2026 grant 0

This is a poster from the WPA urging people to save their own lives … by getting tested for a sexually transmitted disease. The geometry […]

SONG: Social Prosthetic

24 January 2026 grant 0

SONG: “Social Prosthetic”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Why Did Jeffrey Epstein Cultivate Famous Scientists?”, Scientific American, 20 Jan 2026, as used […]

Scientific illustration of optical equipment studying light in the Early Modern period. Sunlight streams through a window and a board containing a series of lenses or apertures, focusing it on boxes and some sort of cutaway wall.

Science Art: From Les raisons des forces mouuantes, etc., 1615.

19 January 2026 grant 0

This is a light experiment from the 1600s, which I found in the British Library archive over yonder. The book, Les raisons des forces &c […]

A woman with short, bushy hair holds a cylindrical device and smiles next to a headline shouting VIOLET-RAYS! above a scientific illustration of a case of electric equipment that promises SOOTHING, INVIGORATING, CURATIVE VIOLET-RAYS, which are ABSOLUTELY SAFE and GUARANTEED.

Science Art: Violet-Rays!, 1917

12 January 2026 grant 0

This is an ad from the April 1917 edition of Hugo Gernsback’s The Electrical Experimenter, which you can read on archive.org here. I can only […]

A scientific illustration of chicken breeds, in the form of an ornate oval frame bursting with proud and colorful domestic birds - 52 of them, to be precise.

Science Art: The Poultry of the World, 1868

5 January 2026 grant 0

Fifty-two breeds of chickens! This is an educational poster from the 1800s, published by L. Prang & Co., Boston, the makers of “Prang’s American Chromos: […]

Scientific illustration of planets drawn to scale.

Science Art: Diagram of the Comparative Sizes of the Planets, 1895

29 December 2025 grant 0

This is one of the 10 illustrations by Dan Beard for John Jacob Aster’s book A Journey In Other Worlds. Well, actually it’s the one […]

SONG: Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game Theory cover)

24 December 2025 grant 0

SONG: “Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game Theory cover)”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is not based on scientific research; it’s […]

A cell, grey and lumpy, sends out white fibers against a black background.

Science Art: NIH- NCI cancer research

22 December 2025 grant 0

An image of a cell, a neoplasm, from the National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine, the “Images from the History of Medicine” collection. […]

Scientific illustration of biomechanics of stacked human bodies, using acrobats making a human tower on a beach. They seem to lean forward in an unsustainable way. Numbers and angles on the image show how centers of gravity make this possible.

Science Art: Akrobati, Lokální těžiště a hmotnosti, 2016

14 December 2025 grant 0

Biomechanics, with acrobats. A photo illustration by Karel Frydrýšek. The description, translated from Czech, reads: “Four acrobats, chosen coordinate system, local center of gravity and […]

Scientific illustration of the human hand as a measuring instrument for the constellations of the zodiac, showing their order and corresponding planets and months in a circular chart almost like a hand of Fatima.

Science Art: ORDEN DE LOS SIGNOS DEL ZODIACO, 1614.

8 December 2025 grant 0

From Theatro del mvndo, y del tiempo, which I’ve mentioned here before but have accessed yonder, on archive.org. This is a chart of the human […]

Scientific illustration of a space station from before rockets entered space, a white disk trailing cables like Lovecraftian tentacles, surrounding the reflective petals of a concave, segmented solar mirror.

Science Art: Noordung’s Space Station Habitat Wheel, 1929

30 November 2025 grant 0

Here’s a space station from before the first rocket left Earth’s atmosphere. The description from DVIDS (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service) Hub, where I found […]