Science Art: Cymatics, by Nigel Stanford
I’m not really that much of an electronica fan – at least not danceable electronic music – but this video is kind of awesome. I […]
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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 …
Read moreScience 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…
Read moreScience 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…
Read moreScience 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…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
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Science Art: Lidar-derived digital surface and elevation models of a stream channel, by the USGS
Click to embiggen This is the earth under a stream inside a forest in Iowa, with all the trees and the water digitally removed. Or […]
Science Art: Electricity: condenser jars, an electro-static generator, and a vase with flowers, c. 1850.
Click to embiggen. A goache painting from the Wellcome Collection. A rather polite setting of research equipment with a bouquet. No idea whose, or what […]
SONG: Picture on Your Phone
SONG: “Picture on Your Phone”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science Direct, Vol. 27, Dec. 2018, “’Selfie’ harm: Effects on mood and body image in young women”, […]
Science Art: Introverted Millipede (Magukbaforduló ikerszelvényesek).
Click to embiggen This is an old, old fellow named Polydesmus. One of the first land animals there ever was. From the image’s description on […]
Science Art: 254th Combat Communications Group emblem
This is the insignia of the 254th Combat Communications Group, a unit that’s normally part of the Texas Air National Guard, but if federalized, becomes […]
Science Art: Wilson’s Snipe, by W.I. Beecroft, 1912
Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as a snipe. Lots of kinds of snipe, in fact. And snipe hunting was a real thing, too. […]
Science Art: The Goodrich XH-5 Tomato-Worm Suit
Click to embiggen This might be the greatest contribution gardening ever made to space travel. In the middle of World War II, engineers were trying […]
Science Art: Tesla Coil: high-frequency discharge demonstrator, Welch Scientific Company, 1931
Click to embiggen Electrical history from PW Lanier and the Minneapolis Institute of Art: This tabletop Tesla coil was likely made for science classes, producing […]
Science Art: Lunated Nail-Tailed Kangaroo, 1863
Click to embiggen Not just a kangaroo, and not just a nail-tailed kangaroo. A lunated nail-tailed kangaroo. And a cute one, too. From John Gould’s […]
Science Art: Pipes and playing-drum of a “Leierkasten” hand-drawn organ, by Rama
Click to embiggen This is a view of one of the automatic music-making devices collected by the Centre International de la Mécanique d’Art (CIMA), a […]
Science Art: Detail from the bookplate of the English bibliographer, paleontologist and geologist Charles Davies Sherborn, 1890
Click to embiggen This image is from the Public Domain Review’s essay, “The Poetry of Victorian Science,” which is as much up this site’s alley […]
Science Art: Stripping ESO 137-001, a Hubble/Chandra composite image of a spiral galaxy.
Click to embiggen From the Astronomy Picture of the Day description: This image combines NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations with data from the Chandra X-ray […]
SONG: Taste the Wind
SONG: “Taste the Wind”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 13 Aug 2018, “Spacecraft sets off to make humanity’s closest approach to the Sun”, as used in […]
SONG: Circuits in the Sand (penitential cover)
SONG: “Circuits in the Sand” (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for last month’s […]